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How Texas’s Senate Race is a Blueprint for the future of American Politics

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Throughout my previous posts, I have discussed extensively about the ideological divides inside political parties. On the Democrat’s side, there is a growing divide between firebrand progressives who make headlines for constantly opposing Trump, and more grounded, moderate candidates who tend to focus on so-called “kitchen table issues”. On the Republicans side, more and more […]

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Is Trump’s “Big Tent” Coalition Faltering?

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In 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain to become President, winning 28 states and 365 votes in what is still the largest landslide of the 21st century. Not only did Obama run up margins in traditional Democratic strongholds and capture swing states, but he also found himself within striking distance of McCain in multiple Republican

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How the 2025 Election Results have emboldened Democrats in next year’s midterms

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The democrats had a great night this election day. While the biggest of the night from the media was Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York Mayoral Race, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo in a campaign largely defined by affordability, it wasn’t actually the biggest story of the night. For example, Democrats won

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Inside Gavin Newsom’s 2028 Soft Launch

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We are only 8 months into Trump’s second term, but it already seems like California Governor Gavin Newsom is making all the moves to position himself as the frontrunner in the Democratic Primaries. Arguably, Newsom started making these moves as early as 2023, when he participated in an unprecedented debate with Republican Florida governor and

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Gerrymandering, Explained

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A few months ago, Texas made waves after its Republican government revealed that they were planning to redistrict the state’s congressional seats. The reason: to make Texas districts more conservative, by either packing many liberal areas into one district, or cracking a heavily liberal area among multiple districts. In this, the GOP legislature’s goal is

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Three Primaries to Watch Out for in the 2026 Midterms

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While the 2026 midterms probably don’t matter to most voters right now, they definitely do to the candidates running for them. In order to secure a spot on the ballot in the November general election, candidates of both parties are participating in a one year marathon in order to succeed in their own respective primary.

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Trump’s Foreign Policy Recaped

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Trump’s second term has been very unorthodox, especially in its foreign policy. Here, I will discuss how Trump’s foreign policy has been different from the status quo of prior administrations. Ukraine: While every single administration in modern history has or would have supported Ukraine during Russia’s invasion (including Trump in his first term), second term

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How Trump’s Second Term is Already Very Different from his First

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On Wednesday, during his ‘liberation day’ speech, President Trump made good on his promise to enact ‘reciprocal tariffs’ on almost every US trading partner. While they were put in with the intent of bringing manufacturing back to the United States and reducing trade deficits with other countries, the tariffs have so far only caused a

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