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							<title><![CDATA[ICE's Secret Weapon Is in Your Community]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/general/ice-s-secret-weapon-is-in-your-community/ar-AA293bA6</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Melissa Grant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last summer, we often watched ICE raids unfold live, captured by news helicopters and eyewitness video, as'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'almost exactly one year ago'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'agents descended on day laborers, street vendors, garment workers, and farm workers in southern California.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Shut Down an Immigrant Detention Camp]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/how-to-shut-down-an-immigrant-detention-camp/ar-AA24TPlg</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Melissa Grant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For more than two weeks, around 300 immigrants locked up at Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention camp in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a hunger and labor strike, refusing to eat and refusing to work maintaining the prison for its operators, the GEO Group.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Waging War on an American City]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-is-waging-war-on-an-american-city/ar-AA1O8RUt</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Melissa Grant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Months ago, Donald Trump claimed that Los Angeles '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'would be burning'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' if not for the federal troops he was sending there. On Sunday, in a similarly pathetic attempt to justify his demand to send in the National Guard, he told reporters that Portland was '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'burning to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ICE Is Making an Example of California]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-making-example-california-100000163.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Melissa Grant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In California, well before federal immigration agents reach their targets, their regular, brutal raids are sometimes augured by a video.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/los-angeles-protests-act-self-100000099.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Melissa Grant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early Sunday evening in Los Angeles, as the city was under siege by federal anti-immigration forces, aided by local law enforcement, Mayor Karen Bass was holding a press conference.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right Is Winning Its War on Schools]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/177563/right-winning-war-schools</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Melissa Grant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Using bogus scandals and funding crunches, Republicans across the country are decimating public education.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis's 2024 Campaign Against Wokes]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/169794/ron-desantis-inauguration-2024-campaign-wokes</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Melissa Grant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Florida governor and potential presidential contender used his inauguration address to target his favorite bogeyman.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The MAGA Queen of Election Denial]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/168212/kari-lakes-arizona-donald-trump-big-lie-stop-the-steal</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Melissa Grant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Arizona was the epicenter of Trump's Stop the Steal. Now Kari Lake is its lead proselytizer for the 2022 midterms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Democratic Party Learned to Wage Class Warfare]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/155989/democratic-party-learned-wage-class-warfare</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Melissa Grant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street was widely ridiculed by liberals. Now, rage against the one percent is a major theme of the 2020 primary.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fixating on 'Cancel Culture' in an Age of Transphobia]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/155606/fixating-cancel-culture-age-transphobia</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Melissa Grant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Articles about "canceled" or "provocative" writers rarely focus on the people they've harmed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Christine Blasey Ford Said]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/155007/christine-blasey-ford-she-said</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Melissa Grant</author>
							<description><![CDATA["She Said," a chronicle of the #MeToo era by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, reveals the power of women who, together, refused to stay silent.]]></description>
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