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The people who braved intimidation, violence and COVID-19 infections, cast their votes for a different future.

Jaime Harrison lost in his bid to unseat reactionary South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. But his race, like the 2018 campaigns of Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Andrew Gillum in Florida, shows what soon may be politically possible in the Deep South.

South Florida’s new Cuban immigrants are strong supporters of President Trump, offsetting the liberal trend among US-born Cuban-Americans. Their support for Trump is a vote for the continued isolation of Cuba, and a vote for their vision of America.

Joe Biden wins US election after four tumultuous years of Trump presidency.

Scientists at Columbia University have developed a treatment that blocks the virus in the nose and lungs, is inexpensive and needs no refrigeration.

Voters were also in favor of taxing the rich and making it legal to smoke weed.

The parameters of American democracy correlate neatly with the parameters of the nation’s racial hypocrisy.

After decades of voter suppression, organizing efforts pay off.

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