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Danica Roem: Shoe leather and local issues key to progressive wins
December 8, 2017Her message, which she carried with her reporter’s notebooks from house to house, including on the rainy Saturday night before the election, was relentlessly local and focused.
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Cuba heads to the polls: A primer on Cuban elections
December 7, 2017In order to understand democracy in Cuba, it is necessary to look beyond the many misperceptions and stereotypes promoted by the U.S. media.
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Unions, Dreamers to lawmakers: Attach Dream Act to money bill
December 7, 2017A hardline bloc of anti-everything Republicans, backed by President Trump’s own racist views, will kill the money bill if it has any Democratic priorities.
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Racist bus company: “You won’t feel like you’re in China on our buses”
December 7, 2017Using coded language, Suburban Express promised customers a ride with "passengers like you," rather than Asian students.
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Labor advocate Wendy Carrillo elected to California Assembly
December 7, 2017This Assembly race was the final stage of a cascade of other political events that started when California Senator Barbara Boxer retired.
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