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Chris Liddell-Westefeld
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Obama alum. Iowa native. Cat convert. Author of "They Said This Day Would Never Come."
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Today, after six years and more than 200 interviews, the book that grew out of that project, THEY SAID THIS DAY WOULD NEVER COME, is being published. It’s an oral history of the 2008 Obama campaign, told through the voices of staff, volunteers, and organizers
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Kate Masur
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It’s release day for UNTIL JUSTICE BE DONE, so I wanted to introduce it a bit! This book chronicles the antebellum struggle for racial equality before the law, a fight that spanned the free states and sometimes found its way into the slave states too. bookshop.org/books/until-ju
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Jennifer Szalai
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This new book is terrific, and important. Kate Masur joins a conversation among historians who've been taking a closer look at people fighting for racial equality in the North, in addition to abolition in the South, in the decades before the Civil War
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A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement (Published 2021)
Kate Masur’s “Until Justice Be Done” looks back at the fight for Black people’s freedom and equality, from the Revolutionary War to Reconstruction.
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Adam Jentleson
@AJentleson
It’s publication day for Kill Switch, my book about how reactionaries and white supremacists twisted the Senate into a paralyzed body that shuts down our democracy. Our political environment is horrific these days, but the Senate is key to how we got here.
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Kill Switch
With a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administration THE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTER 'A truly excellent book… blistering and persuasive.” —Ezra Klein, New York Times An...
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Remi Yamamoto
@RemiMYamamoto
I joined
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’s campaign 1.5 yrs (feels like a lifetime) ago bc I believed in the change he knew was possible, in the country he knew we could be. Can’t wait to make that happen w/ this team working for one of the smartest people I’ve ever met (on a bus in IA)
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Today, President-elect Biden announced additional members of the White House communications & press staff. These talented individuals demonstrate the president-elect's commitment to building an administration that looks like America & is day one ready. buildbackbetter.gov/nominees-and-a
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Addy Baird
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As good a time as any to note, again, that DC is a historically black city of 700,000 people — more people than Wyoming — who pay taxes, have been denied the rights granted to states, and because of that have no ability to stop federal law enforcement from occupying the city.
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Joel Benenson
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From the people who brought you the 78% probability of Hillary Clinton winning the presidency: Maybe it’s time to bag these useless forecasts. They don’t help voters make a decision about who they think should be president.
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Nate Silver
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Super Tuesday states where we currently have candidates projected to get at least 15% of the vote: Sanders: All Super Tuesday states Bloomberg: All states but VT Biden: All states but VT, UT, MN Buttigieg: OK, AR only Warren: MA only Klobuchar: MN only projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-f
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Astead
@AsteadWH
To put in context, Pete Buttigieg has been running for office longer than Elizabeth Warren
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David Weigel
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A few Warren opponents have convinced themselves that she's conniving or a DNC plant, etc. But she really is a college professor who never ran for office until she was eligible for early Social Security benefits. (She was 63 when elected to the Senate.) twitter.com/CharlotteAlter
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