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Joe Biden has served half a term. What has he accomplished?

This Tuesday, the State of the Union address will occur, where Joe Biden will talk about the success and goals of his administration. Last year, around 38 million Americans tuned in to watch the address, which featured viral moments like Biden confusing Ukrainian’s for Iranians. So to catch you up, I’ll take you through all […]

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2024 might be the best chance third parts have had in 30 years.

Now that the 2022 midterms are over, the 2024 Presidential Race is rapidly approaching. While pundits have been talking about a presidential bid from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, In all likelihood, when we make it out of the primaries the Presidential race will be between two very familiar people – Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

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New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Career, Explained

Much has been said about now house speaker Kevin McCarthy’s seemingly never ending struggle to become Speaker of the House (though he did eventually pull out), with the notion that being speaker was McCarthy’s “biggest dream.” And to an extent, this is true, as McCarthy has wanted the job for almost a decade. But let’s

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Everything to know about Georgia’s Runoff

On Tuesday December 6th, a runoff will occur in Georgia between Democrat Rapheal Wornock and Republican Herschel Walker. This race will occur due to either candidate clearing the 50 percent threshold in the general election that happened earlier this month. The shortcomings of both Wornock and Walker are attributed to Libertarian Chase Oliver, who has

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The Republican Field for 2024

The midterms are (basically) over, and control of both houses of Congress have been decided. Republicans won the house, albeit narrowly, and Democrats won the Senate, also in a narrow way. This election cycle has been unanimously agreed upon to be a flop by Republicans, and while there is still a runoff Senate Election in

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Pundits said it would be a red wave. It wasn’t.

Intro (I was right):  Republicans should have had this election cycle in the bag. Instead, they find themselves thinking about what they did wrong. And this is because going into election day, everyone expected Republicans to win – and win by a lot. Everyone except me of course, because in my October 6th post “How

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Midterm Elections: What’s Happening?

Yesterday, midterm election results started coming out, and while control of the house and senate have not been determined yet, there’s still a lot of takeaways. The takeaway: Pundit’s expected Republican’s to win handly. They didn’t. However, with failure, there’s always a silver lining, and with success, there’s always a place for improvement, as shown

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Texas Democrats and the fight to Curb Voter Suppression

The Story: In Texas, Democrat state legislatures are planning to block a Republican backed voter suppression bill that would severely restrict mail-in ballots and in person voting. They plan to do this by leaving the state and going to Washington DC, which will stop the bill from passing because the Republicans would not have a

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