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Organizing to Win [link removed]
**The new chair of the Progressive Caucus wants to do for Democrats what he did for construction workers in Texas.** From Executive Editor David Dayen comes the cover story for this month’s edition of
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Sugar Rush [link removed]
**Indiana is among several states restricting the purchase of sugary foods with nutrition assistance funds.** Is this about health, or punishing poor people? [link removed] Writing Fellow Emma Janssen traveled to Indiana to speak with shopkeepers about the state’s SNAP benefits restrictions.
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When Gift Becomes Grift [link removed]
**Trump’s “free” gift from Qatar, a new Air Force One that he keeps after leaving office, is absorbing a billion dollars in taxpayer-funded upgrades.** Robert Kuttner,
**Prospect**co-founder and co-editor, on Trump’s maneuvers to hide the expenses [link removed] associated with upgrading the supposedly free plane that’s actually costing taxpayers nearly $1 billion.
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Inflation Comes to Immigration [link removed]
**New fees are pricing migrants out of the country.** Writing Fellow James Baratta explains how these price hikes, onerous processing fees, and penalties serve the Trump administration’s goal of keeping out aspiring Americans [link removed]—even ones who meet all the legal requirements.
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COVID Contrarians Are Wrong About Sweden [link removed]
**Pandemic revisionists claim that Sweden proves lockdowns in the early pandemic days were ineffective.** It’s utter nonsense [link removed], argues Senior Editor Ryan Cooper, who examines the factors in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe to demonstrate how this contrarian argument is full of holes.
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This week on the Weekly Roundup [link removed], Executive Editor
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