Author: Greg Jaffe

Washington Post – Politics:

Linda Wenhold absorbed the Patriot Academy’s message that America is falling apart as it drifts from its biblical roots. Then she won a local school board seat.

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In Nebraska, senators refused to even debate paid sick leave. Now advocates want to give voters a direct say.

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Sierra Schuetz’s government job feeding the poor in conservative Ottawa County became a passion. Could it survive the suspicions that multiplied alongside covid?

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Heather Alberda found her calling by speaking bluntly about sex in conservative Ottawa County. Her career was no match for the nation’s culture wars.

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Lexi Rizzo’s Starbucks bosses called her a “great employee,” but she was fired after leading the push to unionize her Buffalo store.

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Ottawa County offers a glimpse of what happens when one of the building blocks of American democracy is consumed by ideological battles.

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Eight years before he stormed the Capitol, Jake Peart acted with ‘unfathomable’ grace towards a woman who had killed his sister. A judge must decide if it matters.

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Justin Roebuck sought to rebuild faith in the election system with a public forum. At the same time, the Ottawa County Patriots were raising new doubts.

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Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin with the dismantling of the U.S. military and end with the destruction of the country’s democracy.