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Indivisible

I pledge allegiance to…Indivisible

April 29, 2019 Renee Shur 2020 Election, Activism, Candidates, Democrats Leave a comment

With its call for the twenty-one  (and counting) currently declared Democratic presidential candidates to sign onto the We Are Indivisible 2020 Candidate Pledge, once

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VanOstran

Cort VanOstran: Is he the Democrat who can defeat Ann Wagner?

July 17, 2018 Claire Stolze 2018 Election, Candidates, Democrats, Missouri region, Widgets: Candidates 2018 Leave a comment

Cort VanOstran is a candidate who is clearly thinking past the August 2018 Democratic primary. When we interviewed him last week, it seemed obvious

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Who’s who & who said what at candidate forum in MO 2nd Congressional district

June 3, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Campaigns, Candidates, Democrats, Good government, Missouri region, Widgets: Candidates 2018 2 comments

Five Democrats—all male—are vying for the honor of trying to defeat entrenched Republican Ann Wagner, in Missouri’s 2nd Congressional District. Here are my impressions

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