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Christian Paz

www.vox.com
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articles (90 days)

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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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Anti-system voters are turning on Trump over Epstein
If Joe Rogan is any indication, February 2026 may go down as the month that the Epstein files saga cemented itself as a lasting political liability for President Donald Trump and Republicans. The p...
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Pope Leo is quietly reviving America’s Catholic left
A quiet cold war is happening across America — one that many Americans might not be aware of if they’re not tuned into the changes underway in America’s Christian communities.  On one side is the r...
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Minneapolis is showing a new kind of anti-Trump resistance
While the Trump administration continues its immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, anti-ICE protests continued in Minneapolis and around the country — from Los Angeles to rural Maine — o...
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The White House’s shocking lies about Minneapolis
Minneapolis residents and anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protestors can claim at least a partial victory after weeks of protest, confrontation, and violence in Minnesota. The Trump admini...
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ICE is forcing a reckoning among America’s religious leaders
It’s a recurring feature of anti-ICE protests: the presence of pastors, priests, and reverends on the front lines of demonstrations, and behind-the-scenes, organizing in their communities.  In Chic...
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How right-wing influencers are bending reality in Minneapolis
In the hours and days after news and videos spread of the ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, a small army of right-wing, pro-Trump creators, journalists, and influencers descended...
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The violent “randomness” of ICE’s deportation campaign
As competing narratives and interpretations of viral videos muddy the investigations of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis last...
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