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“I would not have been able to continue my campaign without that ruling,” Grechen Shirley, who now runs Vote Mama, a political action committee that supports female candidates with young kids, told me. She said that during her campaign,…

Subscribe to Radio Atlantic: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher (How to Listen)Listen to Edward-Isaac Dovere interview Seth Moulton on Radio AtlanticThey’re all the same out-of-touch, establishment leaders making the same bad decisions,…

“We have to be honest about our own candidacy’s viability,” Swalwell said as he announced his exit in California.He had centered his campaign around taking aggressive action to combat gun violence. And in the grand political tradition of…

“It was pretty much a consensus, even among Republicans, that he could have beat DeWine,” says David Betras, a Ryan ally and, until recently, the chairman of the Mahoning County Democrats.Ryan, whose district includes the longtime…

“It was day in and day out, and then it became year in and year out, never relenting until we succeeded,” recalls Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine who, beginning in 1979, served for a total of 34 years in the House and Senate.Some…

Gillibrand is a United States senator from New York, and this is the best she can do. A mess, maybe. But it’s no more of a mess than at least a dozen other candidates who are underperforming just as much, or worse. If all the candidates…

Moulton is clearly a long-shot, best known at this point for his failed attempt to block Nancy Pelosi as speaker, which angered liberals across the country, and back home in Massachusetts. But his calculus—and that of other more…