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by Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | Feb 21, 2020 | Featured, Politics
If 2019 was a fraught year for abortion access in the United States, with state legislatures passing 59 restrictions on the procedure, a clash over contraception is emerging in 2020. From an impending Supreme Court case to attempts in state legislatures, the increased...
by Sara Wilson | Feb 18, 2020 | Politics, Topics
Carolyn Bourdeaux lost the 2018 House race in Georgia’s 7th Congressional District by 433 votes. Despite the fact that the district hasn’t had a Democrat representative since the 1990s, it was the closest race in the country, with five-term Republican incumbent Rob...
by Sam Cabral | Feb 7, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Politics
WATERLOO, Iowa, Feb. 7 (UPI) — Before the results of the Iowa caucuses trickled in, one of the main concerns for the campaign of former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg was his lack of support from minority voters. Buttigieg hoped to repair that with the...
by Brian Johnson and Sara Wilson | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, Politics
The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to acquit President Donald Trump on two charges of abuse of power to aid his own reelection and subsequent obstruction of Congress, bringing the third presidential impeachment trial in the country’s history to a predictable close and...
by Brian Johnson | Feb 5, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Politics
Elizabeth Warren won the first satellite caucus in Washington for Iowans Monday night, a rare clear win in an evening when electoral chaos reigned elsewhere. Warren won the support of 42 of the 100 Iowans who caucused Monday at the International Brotherhood of...
by Mark Satter | Feb 4, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Politics, Topics
DES MOINES, Iowa — For a small handful of Iowans, simply participating in Monday’s caucuses was a momentous feat in itself. For the first time this year, people with disabilities could take advantage of 87 new satellite caucus locations set up by the Iowa Democratic...
