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Tristan Baurick

Tristan Baurick is a reporter for Grist and Verite News, a nonprofit news organization with a mission to produce in-depth journalism in underserved communities in the New Orleans area.

• Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions

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Gavin Gassmann

Gavin Gassmann is a software engineer and tech consultant for working-class political candidates in Iowa. After his landlord's negligence caused the collapse of 324 Main St. in Davenport, killing three...

• Supreme Court revives Jim Crow logic in Tennessee anti-trans case

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Dick Duncan

Dick Duncan is a labor activist and writer from Virginia.

• Southern Workers’ Assembly builds unity and challenges corporate control in the South

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Ethan Buhrow

Ethan Buhrow is a writer in Minneapolis–Saint Paul

• Political terror in Minnesota: The far right’s war on democracy escalates

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Stefan Andersun

Stefan Andersun is a writer and producer in Los Angeles, California.

• Angelenos step up protests as Trump continues immigration raids

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Joe Henry

Joe Henry is a veteran organizer and national advisor on civic engagement for LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens).

• Is Teamsters’ Sean O’Brien Donald Trump’s favorite union leader?

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Claudia Grace

Claudia Grace is a writer and multidisciplinary artist from Ypsilanti, Michigan.

• The artist on display: Chelsea Ayumi Koga, ‘My New House’

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Lena Simet

Lena Simet is a senior economic justice and rights researcher and advocate at Human Rights Watch.

• Uber and other ‘platform’ corporations hide their exploitation of workers behind an app

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Carol Rosenblatt

Carol Rosenblatt writes from Washington, D.C.

• D.C. Council session over Mayor Bowser’s plan to end sanctuary city status draws strong pushback

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