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DeSantis-linked super PAC broke new ground in pushing campaign finance rules in Iowa in support of a 2nd-place finish
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Although he liked to portray the NRA as representing grassroots gun owners, LaPierre was a corporate lobbyist and his major clients were the corporations whose profits grow when there are few restrictions on the sale and ownership of guns and ammunition.
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Charls Walker defeated Jimmy Carter's tax reform effort. American politics would never be the same.
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Social media and cellphones connected President Trump to the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
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Guatemala’s anti-corruption leader-to-be could be prevented from taking office
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This year’s historic Hollywood and UAW strikes aren’t labor’s whole story — the total number of Americans walking off the job remained relatively low