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We need more long-shot candidacies

States Newsroom · October 22, 2026

Doug Chapin says he had an epiphany on the first day of President Donald Trump’s second term. “He pardoned the Jan. 6 rioters, and I thought, ‘You know, I need to do something about this,’” Chapin told me recently. The D.C.-based firm where he did research for the U.S. Election Assistance Commission was hit hard by…

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We need more long-shot candidacies

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