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Blake Masters
March 16, 2023
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Alex Shephard
Republicans Are Starting to Regret Cultivating a Base of Extremist Voters
The party wants to move on from Trump and his preferred MAGA candidates. They haven’t convinced their base to go along.
November 25, 2022
The Soapbox
Graham Gallagher
Elite Conservatives Have Taken an Awfully Weird Turn
As it leaves behind American values, has the right gotten too strange to win elections?
November 12, 2022
Tori Otten
Mark Kelly Defeats MAGA Candidate Blake Masters in Arizona Senate Race
With Arizona in the bag, Democrats need either a win in Nevada or the upcoming Georgia runoff to maintain control of the Senate.
November 9, 2022
The Soapbox
Alex Shephard
This Was the First Post–January 6 Election
Republican candidates took Trump’s “Big Lie” and ran for office on delusional claims of voter fraud. They won’t be thwarted from doing it again.
November 7, 2022
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Firmin DeBrabander
Peter Thiel Has No Clue What Makes America Great
The tech billionaire and his GOP minions J.D. Vance and Blake Masters have America to thank for their riches. So why do they portray it as a stagnant, doomed hellhole?
October 20, 2022
The Soapbox
Melissa Gira Grant
The MAGA Queen of Election Denial
Arizona was the epicenter of Trump’s “Stop the Steal.” Now Kari Lake is its lead proselytizer for the 2022 midterms.
September 9, 2022
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Walter Shapiro
Why Candidates Get More Bang for Their Buck Than Super PACs—Starting Now
A 50-year-old law allows candidates—but not fundraising groups—to get discounted TV ad rates in the 60 days before the election. What does that mean for the home stretch of their campaigns?
September 8, 2022
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Daniel Strauss
What Is Peter Thiel Thinking?
An interview with Max Chafkin, author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power,” on how J.D. Vance and Blake Masters came to be part of Thiel’s political project
August 24, 2022
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Alex Shephard
The GOP’s Incredible Shrinking Message
A shift in Democratic fortunes has blown up the economic malaise story Republicans had hoped to run on, leaving voters with plenty of time to survey their weird candidates and bad ideas.
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