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A spinoff of the King Street Patriots Texas Tea Party, True the Vote aims to have 1 million poll watchers in place by November. 

Bernard Rapoport's death at the age of ninety-four has brought to a close one of the storied chapters in the history of American liberalism.

He began his career singing about cars and girls before moving on to empty factories and abandoned quarries—and now, with Wrecking Ball, the depredations of Wall Street.

A GOP win in November would move the most conservative bench in history even further to the right.

As HB 87 scared away the immigrants who worked its fields, officials in Irwin County, Georgia, scrambled to fill the local detention center, the area’s biggest employer.

Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Welcome to Repress U, class of 2012.

Here’s why you should make a major gift to an abortion fund.

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How, exactly, did she turn a relentless right-wing assault into a source of renewed political power for Planned Parenthood?