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Category: 2018 Election

Mittman

While Rome burns, the ACLU rebuilds

July 26, 2018 Reece Ellis 2018 Election, Activism, Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Consumer issues, Democracy, Education, Gender issues, Justice, LGBT, Prison, Supreme Court [SCOTUS] Leave a comment

The Constitution is important. Full stop. It does many things, chief among them being defining and protecting the rights of people in the United

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Money-Politics

Post-Dispatch story on STL congressional races leaves unanswered questions

July 17, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, Candidates, Democracy, Money & Politics, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Is there a course in Journalism School that teaches that the best way to cover a political campaign is to use the following metrics:

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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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Messmer

John Messmer: professor, reformer, fighter for fairness

July 13, 2018 Jade Nguyen 2018 Election, Candidates, Missouri region, Money & Politics, Widgets: Candidates 2018 Leave a comment

The professor shakes our hands and starts right off with his policy ideas. He admits that small talk and working a room are not

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To beat Ann Wagner, focus on policy, not money: Mark Osmack

July 13, 2018 Reece Ellis 2018 Election, Campaigns, Candidates, Congress, Missouri region, Widgets: Candidates 2018 Leave a comment

“I want to be the candidate who happens to be a veteran, not the veteran who happens to be a candidate.” That was Mark

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Strzok-Page

In defense of FBI Agents Strzok and Page

July 2, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Democracy, Politics, Trump Leave a comment

Sometimes Democrats are bullied by Republicans into denouncing critical-thinking people who see through the morass of bureaucratic regulations and commit a minor transgression. I’m

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Fund-raiser

Obama’s “tough love” sounds very tone deaf

June 29, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Activism, Democrats, Money & Politics, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

A short foray back into politics from former President Barack Obama seems to indicate that he is entrenched in the old monied interests of

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Haas for Mayor

Bill Haas: Optimistic candidate in a long-shot bid for Congress

June 28, 2018 Reece Ellis 2018 Election, Candidates, Democrats, Widgets: Candidates 2018 Leave a comment

When we sat down with Bill Haas last week, he said in no uncertain terms, “I’m going to win this one. It’s not going

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Sachs

Purple politics in Missouri’s CD2: Noga Sachs

June 28, 2018 Jade Nguyen 2018 Election, Candidates, Missouri region, Republicans, Widgets: Candidates 2018 Leave a comment

Noga Sachs is a candidate for Missouri’s 2nd Congressional District in the upcoming Republican primary. She’s running against long-time incumbent Ann Wagner. Recently, I

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ocasio-cortez

Pelosi, McCaskill dis Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after she beats entrenched NY Dem. WTF?

June 28, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Activism, Bernie Sanders, Democrats Leave a comment

When 28-year-old, first-time, Latina candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled off a stunning primary upset against 10-term Democrat Joe Crowley in New York, it was cause

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