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<title><![CDATA[Grace Segers - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/40834.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Grace Segers]]></description><category domain="40834">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Is This District the Key to the Midterms?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The closely watched rematch in Virginia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2nd congressional district between former Democratic Representative Elaine Luria and the Republican who defeated her in 2022 is shaping up to be a doozy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[War on Antidepressants Could Have Dire Consequences]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/mindandbody/rfk-jr-s-war-on-antidepressants-could-have-dire-consequences/ar-AA23tcEC</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. kicked off Mental Health Awareness Month with the launch of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' several initiatives'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to reduce the prescription of antidepressants. Kennedy announced the plan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'which includes new clinical guidelines,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SNAP Is Back, But Trust Is Broken]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/health-and-safety-alerts/snap-is-back-but-trust-is-broken/ar-AA1QAcn6</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Ashleigh Ligon, a mother of six living in Federal Way, Washington, the defining word for November has been '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'uncertainty.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blue States Teaming Up To Counter RFK Jr.'s Policies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/blue-states-teaming-counter-rfk-100000954.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. works to dismantle the long-standing infrastructure for providing vaccine guidance, Democratic governors are working to build their own shadow public health systems, in order to both prepare for disease outbreaks and counter their risks in a climate of mounting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shutdown Will Be Devastating for the DC Region]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-government-shutdown-will-be-devastating-for-the-dc-region/ar-AA1NDkLi</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A government shutdown may worsen conditions for the already struggling economy of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, hammering a region that has been affected by dramatic federal job losses under the Trump administration.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Quest To Bring Young Men Back to the Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-quest-to-bring-young-men-back-to-the-democrats/ar-AA1GcHZV</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressives are wringing their hands over the shift that took these voters to the right. But some worry about focusing more on the symptom than the cause.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Plot To Destroy Washington, D.C.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/the-republican-plot-to-destroy-washington-d-c/ar-AA1AW3EZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Between President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s actions to slash government spending and cut the federal workforce, and efforts by the Republican-led Congress to assert power over the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s governance, Washington, D.C., is on the precipice of economic recession. Collectively, the damage to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Young Voters Harris Desperately Needs Out West]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/187573/young-voters-harris-nevada-arizona</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Arizona and Nevada, enthusiasm from Generation Z'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or the lack thereof'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'could determine who wins the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WI Dems Hope To Run the Table on Harris' Coattails]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/185476/wisconsin-democrats-downticket-kamala-baldwin</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Faced with a slew of challenging races in the Badger State, party officials are hoping that enthusiasm for their presidential nominee will trickle downballot.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DNC Was a Party. Now for the Morning After]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/185212/democratic-convention-kamala-harris-uncommitted</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a week of raucous enthusiasm and ear-bursting decibels. But the convention wasn't perfect. And the hard work of winning the election lies in wait.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Convention That Almost Wasn't]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/185092/democratic-convention-michelle-obama-harris</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just a month ago, Democrats were facing all but certain electoral doom. But with Harris at the top of the ticket, the DNC has been a raucous, energetic affair.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The First Big Bellwether of the 2024 Election]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/176650/virginia-2023-elections-youngkin-abortion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The upcoming Virginia legislative contests are going to provide a critical indicator of voter sentiment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and, potentially, Governor Glenn Youngkin's political future.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Shadow Race To Succeed Mitch McConnell]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/175651/shadow-race-succeed-mitch-mcconnell</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senate Republicans aren't quite ready to think about life after McConnell, but his three potential successors have made their interest known.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Battle Plan for 3 Red-State Upsets]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/174717/democrats-election-attorney-general-kentucky-mississippi-louisiana</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new memo from the Democratic Attorneys General Association argues the party can flip seats in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Katie Porter Will Tell You What She Thinks]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/171488/katie-porter-will-tell-thinks</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. representative from Orange County says her old law prof, Elizabeth Warren, has one speed: full speed ahead. She's made waves in the House. But can she whiteboard her way to a Senate seat in a hotly contested race?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Dems Are Holding Onto Latino Voters in Arizona]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/168285/democrats-gallego-latino-voters-arizona</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the support of this critical voting bloc has ebbed elsewhere, the Grand Canyon State is providing a lesson on how to win it back.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Pat Ryan Turned Abortion Into a Winning Message]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/167560/pat-ryan-abortion-rights-message</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Democrat was quicker to the punch than most of his party when Roe was overturned. He was rewarded with a come-from-behind victory in a bellwether contest.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Finally Ends a Brutal, Trump-Era Immigration Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/165920/title-42-asylum-border-crossing</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The end of Title 42 would be a boon to asylum-seekers and their advocates. It may also fuel a political firestorm.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Democrats Win Over Struggling Parents?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/165385/midterms-2022-democrats-education-parents</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Families with school-age kids have borne the brunt of the pandemic. Will they make themselves heard at the ballot box?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House Democrats Are Not in Disarray. Mostly]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/164799/democrats-disarray-house-caucus-pelosi-aoc</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House Democratic Caucus is often accused of being a quarrelsome bunch. But is this just what politics looks like?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Must Finish What It Started in 2021]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/164719/congress-democrats-2022-agenda</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Is Safe From Economic Catastrophe&mdash;for Now]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/164738/debt-ceiling-default-crisis-averted</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling on Tuesday, but the dysfunction that drives this perennial crisis remains intact.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Virginia Dems Turn to Obama to Cure Their High Anxiety]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/164125/virginia-obama-mcauliffe-youngkin-2021</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the Virginia governor's race tightening, the former president headlined a Terry McAuliffe rally in an effort to Trumpify GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Declares a 'Clear Victory' and Calls for Unity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-elect-joe-biden-vice-president-elect-kamala-harris-watch-live-stream-2020-11-07/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is the first address Biden and Harris make after projections that they won the election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Barrett Is Sworn In, Reshaping Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-senate-confirmation-today-2020-10-26/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barrett was confirmed in Senate by a vote of 52 to 48, with only one Republican voting against her.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Calls for Increased Access to Vote-by-Mail Gain Traction]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vote-by-mail-gains-traction-coronavirus-pandemic/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Grace Segers</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The coronavirus pandemic, which has led most states to shut down almost all aspects of social and economic life, is also raising questions about what life will look like by the time the general election rolls around in November.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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