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“It was mindless, gutter politics. It felt to Duncan that after three decades of fighting to clear his name in the courts, he was now being forced to do it again in public.”
My profile of the extraordinary Calvin Duncan, his historic run for office & the Maga effort to eradicate his victory
theguardian.com
He won office in Louisiana after a murder exoneration. Maga wouldn’t let the election stand
Calvin Duncan studied law in prison to free himself and won his court clerk race in a landslide. Three hours in, the role was abolished in an act of ‘white supremacy’