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Summer Lee is the first Black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania

Democrat Summer Lee beat Republican Mike Doyle to represent Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District.

By Nick Vachon - November 10, 2022

They served on the pandemic’s frontlines. Now they’re running for office.

Frustrated by their leaders’ responses to COVID, doctors are taking action to change things themselves. Could 2022 be the year of the physician candidate?

By Jacob Gardenswartz - July 30, 2021

Progressive groups demand Justice Department stop defending Trump policies

A new letter to President Joe Biden takes aim at his Department of Justice’s defense of “anti-democratic” decisions from the Trump era.

By Jacob Gardenswartz - July 09, 2021