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Sindy Benavides

Benavides is the Founding Executive Director of Aquí: The Accountability Movement.

• ICE: The mental health emergency we can no longer ignore

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Nina Mast

Nina Mast (she/they) joined EPI in 2022 as an economic analyst on the State Policy and Research team. Mast’s research at EPI includes a focus on child labor standards.

• State lawmakers continued to weaken child labor protections in 2026

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Annie Waldman

Waldman is a reporter at ProPublica covering health care.

• He profits off raw milk that makes people sick as government looks away

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Avi Asher-Schapiro

Asher-Schapiro covers the Trump administration and Big Tech in Washington, D.C.

• Trump administration killed criminal investigation of GOP senator’s coal companies

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Molly Redden

Redden covers legal affairs, including big law, judicial appointments and White House legal strategy.

• Trump administration killed criminal investigation of GOP senator’s coal companies

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Jules Shinkle

Jules Shinkle writes for BG Independent Media.

• Chaos and creation merge as music community rallies at Rat Fest 3

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Paul Gregoire

Paul Gregoire is a Sydney, Australia-based journalist and writer. He's the winner of the 2021 New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties Award For Excellence in Civil Liberties Journalism. He...

• U.S. steps up interference in Australia’s domestic politics

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Morgan DuFrene

DuFrene is a college math instructor from Corvallis, Oregon. She has a master's degree in mathematics and a graduate certificate in college and university teaching.

• Harvard imposes cap on ‘A’ grades, progressive educators differ on road forward

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Chrissy M. E. Hansen

Chrissy M.E. Hansen is a trans rights activist, ex-college instructor, and historian. She is a member of CPUSA and helps run the Writing Club.

• Data center battle exposes Michigan Democrats’ slide to the right

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