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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Never going to look at NYT election data the same was again after hearing @christinezhang.bsky.social ‘s awesome @posit.co ::conf keynote! She discussed all the diff viz they considered to capture the plethora of sources of uncertainty in polling data (Also the needle and election night plots!)
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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I chat with @hadley.nz about an over-engineered solution to purchase some beautiful art!
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I had an amazing time talking w/ @lucystats.bsky.social @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social about my longrunning Law & Order obsession on Regression to the Mean Girls!! Check out my analysis of the Law & Order timeline ⚖️👩🏻‍⚖️ regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/03-law... creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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The Comfort of Competence and the Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order, with Christine Zhang by Regression to the Mean Girls
Christine Zhang (New York Times) joins ⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order. Check out the full analysis here: ⁠⁠regression...
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Posit @posit.co · 17/09/2026
posit::conf(2026) is outta here! 👋 From Wes McKinney's AI keynote to Quarto slides, Shiny apps, & termite colonies, Day 2 was radical. Share your photos and reflections with the hashtag #PositConf2026 ❤️ See you in Seattle Sept 13-15 for posit::conf(2027). Until then, keep it real!
A speaker wearing glasses, a black t-shirt, and dark jeans stands on a brightly lit stage during a presentation. Behind him, a large textured wall is illuminated in warm orange light, displaying white text that reads "posit conf(2026)". The silhouettes of audience members are visible in the dark foreground.A crowded conference hall filled with people sitting at round tables during a lunch or networking session. Feather banners with numbers and the phrase "Birds of a Feather" mark different table sections throughout the room. In the foreground, several attendees are seated around a circular table with plates of food and drinks, engaged in conversation.A woman wearing a pink conference t-shirt and a man with glasses leaning over a small round table at an event booth. The woman is holding a smartphone and smiling while looking at it with the man. On the table sits an open laptop facing away from the camera, along with small promotional materials. In the background, a large dark blue banner displays branding for "Posit Assistant" and "Positron" along with the text "Work as fast as you think."
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🔥 @jennybryan.bsky.social lightning talk at @posit.co #positconf on how to name files!! agreed — this date format is the best
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
sad to not be covering this momentous #fed day as I’m at @posit.co #positconf, but Very glad to see the Fed balance sheet visualized in Hamid Shafiezadeh’s excellent presentation at the #rstats R nerds session 🤓, “When English Is Second, R Comes First”
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Federal Reserve voted to raise interest rates by a quarter point as policymakers try to tamp down inflation after more than five years of above-target price increases. Full coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09... #EconSky
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Live Updates: Fed Faces a Credibility Test on Interest Rates
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Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Would also like to share AAPOR's Election Polling Resources page, which we've cleaned up a bit recently aapor.org/election-pol...
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Election Polling Resources - AAPOR
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🤯 jay westreich made a localized version of geoguessr in #rstats called localguessr. awesome talk @posit.co #positconf & some great lessons about how R can help you explore your more whimsical projects (which I very much believe as well!) www.localguessr.com
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good point by @wesmckinney.com during the @posit.co #positconf keynote that calling AI agents “agents” give them … agency. But *we* should be the agents.
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it’s happening 😮 #rstats #positconf
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Primary polls had a bad year. What does that mean for general election polls, which are ramping up after Labor Day? My colleagues Caroline Soler & Evan Reynolds looked at the data: Big misses in primary polling != similar misses in generals. More from them here --> 🎁 nyti.ms/4cMthcJ
A table showing polling error in the primary vs. general elections. In election cycles since 2016, error has been worse during the primary polling compared with the general election polling.
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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls we interview @christinezhang.bsky.social (@nytimes.com ) who takes us down a delightful rabbit hole of Law & Order theories on the comfort of competence & speed of justice ⚖️ regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/03-law... creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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The Comfort of Competence and the Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order, with Christine Zhang by Regression to the Mean Girls
Christine Zhang (New York Times) joins ⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order. Check out the full analysis here: ⁠⁠regression...
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Headed to Houston for #positconf! I can’t overstate the impact that @posit.co’s opensource products & packages (RStudio, Positron, tidyverse) have had on me as a journalist & data nerd 🤓 Thrilled/terrified to be giving a keynote presentation on Tues. If you’re there, say hello! conf.posit.co/2026/
Keynote Session by Christine Zhang, Graphics Editor at The New York Times: How to Be Clear When You Can’t Be Certain
Sometimes, data visualization is about using charts to illustrate a key point or conclusion gleaned from analyzing the data. But what if you’re not sure what the conclusion is? Presenting examples from news reporting on the topics of elections, polling and economics, I will talk about how I have grappled with uncertainty and how to communicate it to the public.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 07/09/2026
Fun charts here on Hollywood's relative box office boom. “The catch is when you adjust for inflation." Via @christinezhang.bsky.social and Brooks Barnes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Hollywood’s Box Office Boom Comes With 248 Million Missing Tickets
Strong box office sales this summer have Hollywood celebrating. But a closer look at the numbers offers a sobering reality check.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Seeing some posts about the divergence between BLS and ADP. But on a one-month basis, such gaps aren't at all unusual. And on a 12-month basis, the two sources are closely aligned. #NumbersDay
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Marco Hernández @mhernandez.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The world of emojis is simply fascinating.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In a remarkable twist of timing, President Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Brett Matsumoto, looks likely to be confirmed today, on #jobsday, 12 months after he fired the last BLS commissioner following an unexpectedly weak jobs report.
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🚨MICHIGAN PRECINCT (+TOWNSHIP) MAPS AND TABLES🚨 See the places that propelled El-Sayed to a narrow victory over Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Senate Democratic primary By Caroline Soler, Evan Reynolds, Alex Lemonides, Ilana Marcus & me 🎁 nyti.ms/459mgP8
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The Coalitions That Propelled El-Sayed’s Michigan Victory (Gift Article)
Racial and ethnic splits, and a wide lead among younger voters, were enough for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, to hold off Haley Stevens, a moderate, in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary.
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Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
SCOOP: Warsh is considering reducing the number of policy meetings the Fed holds each year. He raised the idea at this week's meeting, according to four people with knowledge of the situation
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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is an interesting graph from NYT 🔗 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/29/bus…
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: The stock market is not the economy. Except, right now, maybe it is? A.I. is driving the market. The market is driving spending and investment (much of it on A.I.). But what happens if it all comes crashing down? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b...
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A.I. Is Lifting Markets and the Economy and Raising Risks for Both (Gift Article)
Investment in artificial intelligence and related companies is lifting the stock market and spending across the economy.
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🚨DATA ALERT🚨 I started a 🤓 newsletter w/ @caitlingilbert.bsky.social & @jdharden.bsky.social, check it out if you wanna go down some fun data rabbit holes unrelated to our day jobs 🧵 wrongnumber.beehiiv.com
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Home | Wrong Number
a newsletter for our data hyperfixations
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
very very excited to be launching Wrong Number with my buds @christinezhang.bsky.social and @jdharden.bsky.social! It’s a newsletter dedicated to all of our weird data obsessions: our first posts cover Law & Order, trees, and theme park accidents wrongnumber.beehiiv.com/p/about-wron...
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About ‘Wrong Number’
What this newsletter is, who we are, and why we named it that.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 15/07/2026
We asked more than 3,000 voters in battleground states for the main reason behind their support for these Senate candidates. VIa @christinezhang.bsky.social, Caroline Soler and Ruth Igielnik www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🚨NYC PRECINCT MAPS feat. 6 House races: 3 districts where Mamdani endorsed: 7 (Valdez), 10 (Lander), 13 (Avila Chevalier) + 3 key races elsewhere in NYC: 6 (Meng), 9 (Clarke), 12 (Lasher) By Alex Lemonides, Caroline Soler, Evan Reynolds +me 🎁 Link: nyti.ms/4g19V6d www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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See Where Mamdani’s Slate of House Hopefuls Did Best
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
our L.A. precinct map is now updated with more results!! (~95% of the vote is reflected)
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
MAP: precinct results (preliminary) of the L.A. mayor’s race 🎁 link —> nyti.ms/4g9g0NI w/ Alex Lemonides, Caroline Soler, Matt Bloch & @shawnhubler.bsky.social
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See Where the L.A. Mayoral Candidates Have Done Best So Far (Gift Article)
A map of early returns shows where coalitions have formed in the race between Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt and Nithya Raman.
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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 26/05/2026
📊 The fivethirtyeightindex.com database has expanded to include 13,000 charts and 3,000 illustrations clawed out of the site's HTML and saved individually in a new archive.org collection. fivethirtyeightindex.com/graphics […] [Original post on mastodon.palewi.re]
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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 14/05/2026
Stephen I. Miran submits his resignation as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, effective when or shortly before his successor on the Board is sworn in: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
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Stephen I. Miran submits his resignation as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, effective when or shortly before his successor on the Board is sworn in
Stephen I. Miran submitted his resignation Thursday as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, effective when or shortly before his successor on the Board is sw
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
@palewi.re has created an index of all the FiveThirtyEight articles that are preserved on the Internet Archive. Very useful: fivethirtyeightindex.com
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An index of every fivethirtyeight.com article preserved by the Internet Archive.
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Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Powell's tenure is not over just yet. Because Warsh has not been sworn in, Powell will serve as chair pro tempore, the Fed said on Friday. Bowman and Miran say they didn't support the temporary designation
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It’s Jerome Powell’s last day as Fed chair. My charticle on the economy (and the Fed) that Kevin Warsh, his successor, is inheriting 📈📉📊💸 GIFT LINK —> nyti.ms/3PMdFh3
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The Economy That Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve’s New Chair, Is Inheriting (Gift Article)
The incoming chair of the Fed will need to navigate a delicate economic moment, a president who wants to lower rates and an increasingly divisive leadership committee.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 14/05/2026
Via @christinezhang.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Economy That Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve’s New Chair, Is Inheriting
The incoming chair of the Fed will need to navigate a delicate economic moment, a president who wants to lower rates and an increasingly divisive leadership committee.
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Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"It’s very clear that the balance sheet cannot be immediately reduced without causing a liquidity crunch that nobody would like," says Darrell Duffie at Stanford. "Both the plan and the execution are going to make the difference between failure and success."
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
on the cutting room floor of our Virginia precincts analysis: a *map* of the referendum results & 2024 prez results along proposed district lines we contextualize these results in the article 🎁 link: nyti.ms/4sLUktJ
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We looked the precinct level results in VA’s redistricting referendum & what they can tell us about how “yes” eked out a narrow victory www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
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Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
For a moment on Friday, Kevin Warsh was on a glide path to becoming the next Fed chair But within the hour, his pathway narrowed about as quickly as it had emerged, as the DOJ vowed to appeal a ruling that thwarted an investigation into the central bank www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b... @nytimes.com
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Justice Dept. Legal Threat Complicates Trump’s Pick for Fed Chair
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Rough count of Epstein consequences so far: ▶️ 20 lost jobs (Europe and U.S.) ▶️ 4 arrested, charged and/or under criminal investigation (Europe) Follow along as we track the Epstein fallout (GIFT LINK) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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After the Epstein Files Release, Who Has Resigned, Been Fired or Is Being Investigated? (Gift Article)
This list will be updated and includes people who have faced concrete consequences, such as the loss of their position, as a result of their connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 07/02/2026
Attention visual journalists: I’m always open to pitches for @sciam.bsky.social’s Graphic Science column. The column tells concise stories on topics in science via graphics (dataviz, illustrated diagrams, comic-style explainers, etc). It appears in both print & online. DM me for a pitch guide.
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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 05/02/2026
The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know. Save this one and reshare it please! 📊
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Aaron Schaffer @aaronschaffer.com · 04/02/2026
So many incredible journalists got laid off today. Heroes, mentors, friends. Just an absolutely devastating day. Starting a thread here with some of their incredible work, and how to follow and support them.
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
.@votebeat.org is hiring a Senior National Reporter to cover issues of voting and democracy in 2026 and beyond. Reach out if you're interested in applying, we're a great place to work! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
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Recruitment
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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 31/12/2025
NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American. Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
A table of YouGov polling data with the headline: "How your reading habits compare to other Americans."

The chart has the sub-headline: "About how many books have you read or listened to so far in 2025? (% of U.S. adult citizens)."
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Nice piece here from Nick Corasaniti and @christinezhang.bsky.social on the voting case SCOTUS agreed to hear that is getting less coverage than Callais — but is coming up quickly www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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How the Supreme Court’s Mail-In Ballot Ruling Could Affect Voters
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
📊YEAR IN CHARTS📉📈 I pulled together 14 charts to summarize the trends that shaped business and the economy in 2025 My 3rd time in a row doing a year in charts for DealBook, this edition is the most robust one yet in both charts & text! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/b... 🎁 link nyti.ms/3LdhNo3
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From A.I. to Tariffs, 14 Charts That Explain 2025
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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
2025 was an election “off-year”, but there were many consequential races. For those of us working elections it was hardly a year off! Some of the key takeaways, brought to you by Caroline Soler, Alex Lemonides & me. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... and 🎁 a link, for the holidays: nyti.ms/4s5533p
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Takeaways from an eventful 2025 election cycle
Takeaways from an eventful 2025 election cycle.
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