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Vote with Your Heart

October 26, 2020 Renee Shur 2020 Election Leave a comment

If you’re like me, sleep (or lack of) has taken on a whole new dimension now that we’re in the final sprint toward election

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Reverse the vote: Undoing the will of the people is now official Republican policy

January 6, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, 2018 Election, Democracy, Missouri region, Republicans, States Leave a comment

Republican governors, state legislators and secretaries of state have become shameless in their attempts to reverse the results of legitimately passed ballot initiatives. What

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Uncontested: One of the worst words in a democracy

May 25, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Campaigns, Democracy, Missouri region Leave a comment

It has always been hard to unseat an incumbent candidate. The advantages of already possessing a legislative title like State Representative or State Senator

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It’s 2016: What happened to all those dire, Obama-geddon predictions?

January 2, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, 2016 Election, Obama, Republicans Leave a comment

Now that it’s 2016, it’s time to fact-check some of the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it predictions that President Obama’s critics made before his 2012 re-election. In an

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