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October 24, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Approves Disaster Relief—But Just for States That Voted for Him
Donald Trump is playing favorites at a major cost.
October 22, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Blue States Give Trump a Taste of His Own Shutdown Medicine
Donald Trump has repeatedly tried to blame the shutdown on Democrats. The tables are getting turned.
October 26, 2020
Nick Martin
Blue States Suppress the Vote, Too
Long voting lines in New York aren’t a symptom of the pandemic. They’re the result of years of broken politics and party patronage.
January 20, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Obamacare in Red and Blue America: Two Charts Tell the Story
November 7, 2013
Ruy Teixeira
Virginia Is Now One Step Closer to Being an Official Blue State

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