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Christian Paz

www.vox.com
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A year of Trump is backfiring on the religious right
This weekend, an array of Christian religious leaders and government officials are scheduled to gather at the National Mall. They’ll convene to pray, yes, but this rally — organized as part of the ...
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Look out — Marco Rubio is trying to take back the GOP
Marco Rubio has been having a moment — the kind that makes people wonder if he might be a candidate for president sooner than later.  On Tuesday, he took over press secretary duties while Karoline ...
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The next redistricting war will be even harder for Democrats
Just as the redistricting wars were coming to a close, the Supreme Court blew up the entire landscape with a decision that all but gutted the Voting Rights Act.  And since that decision last week, ...
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Virginia voters just handed Democrats another win in the Great Redistricting Wars
Voters have once again handed President Donald Trump a loss in one of the defining fights of his second administration: the national congressional redistricting race.  Tuesday night, Virginia appro...
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Donald Trump messed with the wrong pope
The White House cannot stop fighting with the pope. On Tuesday night, Vice President JD Vance — who converted to Catholicism in 2019 — accused Pope Leo XIV of not understanding the Church’s stance ...
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Donald Trump’s pivot to blasphemy
To celebrate the second Sunday of Easter, President Donald Trump appears to have decided that blasphemy might be the best option. Late Sunday evening, Trump posted a wordy attack of Pope Leo XIV on...
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Did the Trump administration threaten the pope?
Most American Catholics were probably not expecting to spend the first week of Easter trying to figure out whether their government was threatening to overthrow the first American-born pope. Yet a ...
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How ICE has changed American life
When candidate Donald Trump promised mass deportations on the 2024 campaign trail, it was hard to imagine exactly what that might turn into.  Though he boasted about implementing the “largest domes...
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The religious right is breaking up over Israel and Iran
Nearly a month into the joint US-Israeli war on Iran, there’s a good chance you’ve heard something about the apparent civil war on the right over the conflict. Though polling shows steady support f...
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A high-stakes Texas primary exposed the Democratic Party’s fault lines
One thing was clear before James Talarico’s win over Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Texas Senate Democratic primary Tuesday night. This contest wouldn’t be about policy or ideology; it would be a cho...
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James Talarico preaches faith, love, and healing. Do voters actually want that?
Tuesday night will deliver much more than the conclusion of the first round of voting in the feisty Texas Democratic Senate primary. It brings with it the first major opportunity to take stock of l...
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Trump’s Iran war is uniting a strange new anti-war alliance
About six months ago, I noted an interesting divide among the right-leaning or politics-adjacent podcasters and influencers who helped get Donald Trump reelected. They were either shutting up about...
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How Democrats reorganized their State of the Union resistance
When President Donald Trump addressed Congress a year ago, the Democrats seemed to be, as the meme would have it, “in disarray.” They were lambasted for their disorganized responses to Trump — reme...
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The FCC (probably) didn’t censor Stephen Colbert
For the 12 of us who woke up Tuesday morning wondering what we had missed on Monday’s late-night shows, CBS greeted us with a concerning development. Overnight, Stephen Colbert had laid into his ne...
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