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							May 19 2020

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## [Op-Ed: Sins of the Father](/op-ed-sins-of-the-father/)





In September 2019, Stephanie Hofeller had a random but overwhelming feeling that she should Google her estranged father and Republican strategist Thomas Hofeller, the man who gerrymandered America. Her quick search revealed that he had recently died in summer 2018, […]




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							Jan 9 2020

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## [Opinion: Apocalypse Vibes in 2020](/opinion-apocalypse-vibes-in-2020/)





Let’s push that existential despair back down into our stomachs and figure out what the hell is going on If you’re anything like me, you spent the first week of 2020 curled up in the fetal position watching Australia burn




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							Jan 3 2020

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## [White Nationalism is Imperialism Come Home](/white-nationalism-is-imperialism-come-home/)





This piece was published in the Mainline’s third print issue released for distribution on Thurs., Dec. 19, 2019. It was sent to print on Thurs., Dec. 5, 2019. I recently made the horrible mistake of exploring the bleak wormhole of




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							Oct 27 2019

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## [Opinion: No Friends but the Mountains](/no-friends-but-the-mountains/)





Trump’s most recent foreign policy disaster in Syria isn’t the first time America has betrayed the Kurds As the Syrian civil war winds down and ISIS has been mostly imprisoned or killed, northern Syria has become the sight of extreme tension




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							Sep 4 2019

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## [How Ted Cruz Got His Beard](/how-ted-cruz-got-his-beard/)





On a stormy Caribbean night in the abandoned Island Temple of a dead billionaire, Sen. Ted Cruz stands before an altar. It’s covered with small human skulls, chunks of bloody human flesh, jewels, and golden adornments. Ted is surrounded by




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