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Lizzie Presser

Lizzie Presser covers health, inequality, and how policy is experienced for ProPublica.

• Pregnant teen died after three visits to Texas Emergency Rooms

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Kavitha Surana

Kavitha Surana is a reporter at ProPublica.

• Disregarding womens’ health, Arkansas abortion ban pushes mothers to death’s door
• Pregnant teen died after three visits to Texas Emergency Rooms

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Sonya DB

Sonya DB is a young political activist who has legitimate questions about the ability of the current political system to meet the needs of the people.

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Nicholas Pollock

Nicholas Pollock is a social worker from Columbus, Ohio, and an active member of the CPUSA's Anna Hass Morgan club. He is also part of the Mike Gold Collective, a...

• Bosses and right-wing politicians team up to oppose Ohio’s Issue 1 anti-gerrymandering referendum

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Dale Margolin Cecka

Dale Margolin Cecka is director of the Family Violence Litigation Clinic at Albany Law School.

• Violence Against Women Act is 30 years old, but are we failing survivors?

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Karl Döring

Karl Döring (AKA Karl Doering) is a former public servant in the government of the German Democratic Republic. A metallurgist by training, he served in economic roles overseeing the steel...

• Former GDR minister: Western politicians still don’t grasp devastation of forced capitalist transition

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Charles Parise

Charles Parise currently lives in Columbus, Ohio and works in the ecological field, specializing in knowledge pertaining to forestry, wildlife, conservation, and the environment. He is a member of the...

• Seeking to preserve their gerrymandered election maps, Ohio Republicans sabotage Issue 1 initiative

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Mac Daibhéid

Mac Daibhéid is a factory worker from southern Indiana.

• Not just Springfield: Washington, Indiana, becomes another right-wing anti-Haitian flashpoint

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Brian Coburn

Brian Coburn writes from Ypsilanti, Mich.

• Big data comes for Michigan
• Ypsilanti, Mich. citizen initiatives on tenants’ rights, police budgets, election reform all rejected

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