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As a non-leftist beloved by the left, Walz is ideally suited to expand Harris’s appeal across the ideological spectrum.

Wrong on so many levels

Project 2025 is no renamed Agenda 47. The Heritage Foundation is now pretending to shut down the project, and Trump is pretending that the issue is going to go away. It’s not. The blue print for fascism is out there.

The New Popular Front won the most seats in France's snap legislative elections but fell far short of an absolute majority. The NFP — a broad left-wing coalition — was indeed critical in denying Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally a victory.

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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is a leading candidate to be Kamala Harris’s running mate. Selecting him would fracture the party.

Ours is a nation built upon a set of ideas — ideas not rooted in bloodlines and burial plots but in values and ideals. Anyone who doesn’t understand something so fundamental about the United States is unfit for high office.

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Since the shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania, pundits have gone from branding it "unprecedented" (which it's not) to comparing it to other incidents of political violence that have plagued our nation.

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