After pulling off the biggest midterm win in history, House Democrats are coming for Trump
The new and diverse freshman class will be arriving on Capitol Hill with a spring in their step.
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Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan is a contributing writer for the New Statesman and the co-author of Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader. He was the New Statesman's senior editor (politics).
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Replacing Trump with “President Pence” is exchanging one dangerous leader for another
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How the right-wing Fox News became Donald Trump’s state propaganda channel
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