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Maya L. Miller

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government and democracy reporter for @gulfstatesnewsroom. go preds.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/09/2026
An Idaho county banned wind and solar projects. Some locals regret it.
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An Idaho county banned wind and solar projects. Some locals are having regrets.
Including the Republican commissioner who instigated the moratorium.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What a loss. Such a huge, American talent. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/a...
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Cassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70
With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.
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Thursday! What a concept! @thursaconcept.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thursday! What a concept!
Nadia from the Russian Doll series on Netflix remarking: Thursday! What a concept!
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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ReginAmerica @lownewser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Mother of Alex Pretti: "I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered and no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been seven months." shorturl.at/cZVEb
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Family of Alex Pretti speaks out in exclusive interview: 'They murdered our child'
Pretti was shot and killed by federal officers on Jan. 24.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry, the versatile performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Read more: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/08/2026
The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
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Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/08/2026
The tragedy traces back to an ICE stop and deportation of Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz. A year later, amid acute struggle, his wife, Glendy, decided to "self-deport." Weeks after reuniting, the couple was found dead in a field. “If my brother hadn’t been deported…Both of them might still be alive.”
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She followed ICE’s advice to self-deport. Five weeks later, she was dead.
A St. Louis mother took her three daughters to reunite with her deported husband in Guatemala. Neighbors found the couple bound and shot in a sugarcane field.
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Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We've spent this week reporting in the West Bank during a very tense week following a deadly clash between Israeli settlers and Palestinians last Friday. New checkpoints, new settlers outposts, and more settler violence... take a listen. www.npr.org/2026/07/30/n...
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West Bank faces escalating Israeli settler violence and surge in army checkpoints
The West Bank is buckling as Israeli settlers step up their attacks on Palestinians and the Israeli army sets up even more checkpoints.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this but never in human history have those who burned books been the good guys.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 30/07/2026
writing these words in this order made me feel like i was having a stroke, i am pleased to share it with all of you
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Gulf States Newsroom @gulfstatesnewsroom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This story is the result of months of reporting from @wadrewhawkins.bsky.social. Landry's office did not comment on the NDAs. But one legal expert described them as chilling speech "around a vast, ill-defined area — an unlimited group of topics and information — forever."
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Gulf States Newsroom @gulfstatesnewsroom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Records obtained by the Gulf States Newsroom & @typeinvestigations.org show at least 121 of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s employees — from the most senior aides to the most junior temps — have signed a strict confidentiality agreement with the governor’s office. MORE ⬇️ www.wwno.org/politics/202...
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‘Gag order’: More than 100 Louisiana state employees signed NDAs with Gov. Landry’s office
Legal experts warn that the NDAs could create a culture of fear and chill employees’ constitutionally protected speech.
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Gulf States Newsroom @gulfstatesnewsroom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Gov. Landry also personally signed an NDA directly with with Laidley LLC, the data center subsidiary of Meta Platforms. Here's an analysis of Landry's NDA, along with a link to download the document. www.wwno.org/politics/202...
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Gov. Jeff Landry personally signed an NDA with Meta. Here’s what it says.
Records show Landry personally executed a "Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement" in April 2024 with Laidley LLC, the data center subsidiary of Meta Platforms.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/07/2025
Arizona’s political leaders and residents are asking why crews allowed a fire to burn for days in hot, dry conditions before it exploded beyond containment lines and tore through the heart of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/07/2025
Federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who worked on the criminal cases of Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and also a prosecutor in the recent trial of Sean Combs, was fired Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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DOJ fires Maurene Comey, prosecutor involved in Epstein, Diddy cases
There was no specific reason provided for why Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James B. Comey, was fired.
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Maya L. Miller @mayalmiller.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Repost please! I'm a reporter looking to hear from expats who moved away from Jackson, Mississippi to live in Texas. Please message me if you'd be interested in sharing your experience!
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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 25/06/2025
ICE is seeking to deport an immigrant with work authorization for alleged "illegal dumping" in Jackson.
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JPD called ICE on Miss. father, who faces deportation
ICE is seeking to deport an immigrant with work authorization for alleged "illegal dumping" in Jackson.
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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 26/06/2025
Mississippi executes Richard Jordan Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest and longest serving death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday.
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Mississippi executes Richard Jordan
Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest and longest serving death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/06/2025
Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
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Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs
They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/06/2025
How one Los Angeles complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city’s housing crisis. “I didn’t know how to explain it to her. I just said, ‘No, we aren’t going to move.'”
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These Los Angeles tenants are saying no to rent hikes
How one complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city's housing crisis.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Relatable www.cbsnews.com/news/bears-e...
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2 bears escape wildlife park enclosure, devour a 7-day supply of honey, then fall asleep
Mish and Lucy got out of their enclosure and made a beeline for their food store where they scoffed snacks, including a seven-day supply of honey.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/06/2025
New York Times journalists traveled the length of Syria to see the country's hopes and scars as it emerges from 13 years of civil war. See photos from their journey: nyti.ms/44mcfNG
Children stand on a road in Syria. A man on a motorbike carrying wood rides toward them.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/06/2025
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary after Andrew Cuomo conceded the race. “Tonight we made history,” Mamdani said, addressing his supporters. wapo.st/44yMVoI
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/05/2025
One of the most prolific and notorious rapists in American history may have operated unchecked because of police corruption. @ronanfarrow.bsky.social on the case of Sean Williams.
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How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away
When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/05/2025
Here is the full list of this year's Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists.
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Pulitzer Prizes: 2025 Winners List
Here is the full list of winners and finalists.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2025
You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism. NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support. Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2025
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.
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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 07/03/2025
Essay: Eliminating DEI would preserve the luxury of ignorance, enabling those in power to remain comfortably unaware while marginalized communities suffer the consequences.
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White unearned advantage: How DEI challenges comfortable ignorance - Mississippi Today
Essay: Eliminating DEI would preserve the luxury of ignorance, enabling those in power to remain comfortably unaware while marginalized communities suffer the consequences.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
BREAKING: Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex couples' marriage licenses, loses her appeal at the Sixth Circuit of a lawsuit she lost at trial that was brought by same-sex couples whose constitutional right to marry she violated. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
DAVID ERMOLD; DAVID MOORE,
Plaintiffs-Appellees,
No. 24-5524
V.
KIM DAVIs, individually,
Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky at Ashland.
No. 0:15-cv-00046-David L. Bunning, District Judge.
Argued: January 30, 2025
Decided and Filed: March 6, 2025
Before: WHITE, READLER, and MATHIS, Circuit Judges.OPINION
HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge. Defendant-Appellant Kim Davis, in her capacity as the clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, refused to issue a marriage license to Plaintiffs-Appellees David Moore and David Ermold. Plaintiffs sued Davis under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that Davis violated their constitutional right to marry. After several interlocutory appeals, the district court entered judgment for Plaintiffs on liability and a jury awarded them compensatory damages. Davis now appeals, arguing that she is entitled to qualified immunity, that she has affirmative defenses to liability under the Free Exercise Clause and the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and that Plaintiffs' evidence of their emotional distress was insufficient to support the jury's award. We AFFIRM.
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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 07/03/2025
JXN Water is losing money at a rate it can’t sustain as federal dollars to run day-to-day operations are set to run out next month.
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JXN Water, running out of operating cash, will raise rates again
JXN Water is losing money at a rate it can't sustain as federal dollars to run day-to-day operations are set to run out next month.
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Kat Stromquist @kstromquist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
It was Mardi Gras in the Netherlands too! "Carnaval" celebrations date to the 14th century there, @wadrewhawkins.bsky.social reports. He met a princess in a small Dutch village. Listen🎧 or read here: www.wwno.org/wwno/2025-03...
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It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans — and in this small, southeastern Dutch village
Like New Orleans, the small village of Schaijk in the Netherlands is also celebrating Carnaval on Tuesday — and making an update to a centuries-old tradition.
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Kat Stromquist @kstromquist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
In Mississippi, bills take aim at unhoused people and the practice of sleeping outdoors, @mayalmiller.bsky.social reports: mississippitoday.org/2025/02/20/h...
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In a city without a plan, anti-public sleeping bills pop up at Jackson City Hall and state Capitol - Mississippi Today
Multiple bills that target homeless encampments in Jackson have moved out of their respective houses. Advocates worry about the impact on one of the most vulnerable populations in a city without a hom...
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Orlando Flores Jr @orlandofloresjr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I miss working with @mayalmiller.bsky.social every day, but so thrilled to see her first story for @mississippitoday.org post today! Despite Mississippi’s low homelessness rate nationally, multiple bills that target homeless encampments in Jackson have moved out of their respective houses.
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In a city without a plan, anti-public sleeping bills pop up at Jackson City Hall and state Capitol - Mississippi Today
Multiple bills that target homeless encampments in Jackson have moved out of their respective houses. Advocates worry about the impact on one of the most vulnerable populations in a city without a hom...
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Last year, the county spent ~$100 million on LA Sheriff's Department legal costs -- settlements, judgements and lawyer fees -- making it again the most expensive county dept to defend. BUT that was actually an improvement! The year before it was around $150 million www.latimes.com/california/s...
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L.A. County hit with record number of lawsuits amid flood of child sex abuse claims
The amount the county paid to outside attorneys rose 18% from the previous year to $75 million — nearly double what the county spent four years ago.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is an amazing quote, from a Jan 6 prisoner who is refusing Trump’s pardon. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Pam Hemphill said she planned to refuse Trump's pardon.
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Pam Hemphill, of Idaho, who served 60 days in prison after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges, said she planned to refuse the presidential pardon."It'd be an insult to the Capitol Police and the rule of law, and to our nation," she said. "I pleaded guilty because I was guilty. I don't want to be a part of contributing to them trying to rewrite history-that January 6 was not an insurrection. It was, it was a riot. And I think taking a pardon is like a message that what happened that day was OK."
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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Traditional New Orleans architecture under the snow. #sneauxday
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 04/01/2025
For the past few decades, the trees that grow in the Mississippi River floodplain, known as floodplain forests, have been struggling, recently overwhelmed by higher water and longer-lasting floods. Volunteers are planting acorns to help save the forests.
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Volunteers Plant to Save Struggling Mississippi River Forests
The trees that grow in the Mississippi River floodplain, known as floodplain forests, have been struggling. Volunteers are working to save them.
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Orlando Flores Jr @orlandofloresjr.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
That’s @mayalmiller.bsky.social on the preview image for that NPR story, btw! 🙌🏽 Maya and Nellie Beckett took a community engagement approach to covering the 2024 election in Alabama’s newly redrawn District 2. Check out our podcast episode about their efforts here:
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Can you tell me how we got to District 2?
The Gulf States Newsroom presents an election week look back at our coverage of Alabama’s Congressional District 2.
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