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							<title><![CDATA[Dear New Yorkers: Consider Moving to Dallas, TX]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/26/dear_new_yorkers_consider_moving_to_dallas_tx.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rise of socialist New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has highlighted a fundamental truth that I learned as a former Democratic elected official: the Democratic Party never learns.
Sure, Democrats occasionally pay lip service to law and order and economic opportunity. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Switch to GOP Should've Been Wake-up Call for Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mayor-dallas-switch-gop-last-year-should-have-been-wake-up-call-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm mayor of Dallas, Texas, and my concerns about crime ran up against Democrat support for 'defund the police.' So, I decided to become a Republican. My old party just doesn't get it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I'm Switching From Democratic Party to GOP]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-cities-need-republicans-and-im-becoming-one-dallas-texas-mayor-965dbaa4</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While Dallas has thrived, elsewhere Democratic policies have exacerbated crime and homelessness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Make Policing Better Without 'Defunding' or 'Dismantling']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2021/06/10/we_must_make_policing_better_without_defunding_or_dismantling_780790.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By the time I heard a local activist leader shout that he had brought a group of protesters outside my house to make my children, wife, and neighbors]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Seattle Is Dying]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/24/seattle_is_dying_drugs_and_homelessness_in_seattle.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[KOMO's Eric Johnson explores the impact the drug and homelessness problem is having on the city and possible solutions in this documentary titled,]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Battlefield Rust Belt: Obama Gears Up]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/12851/battlefield_rust_belt</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama won the industrial Midwest in 2008 with a message of hope and change, but he faces a much different political and economic re-election landscape. And with key congressional races looming in 2012, the beleaguered Rust Belt will be on the front lines of the battle...]]></description>
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