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Happy post-Independence Day to you beautiful readers! The weather punished me for going to Canada for the 4th—I had three flights that were delayed—but I gotta say, Prince Edward’s Island is lovely. It’s like New Hampshire, but more French. And now that I’m back in the good ol’ U.S. of A, I wanted to sit down with our newest member of the Puck family: Abby Livingston, formerly of the Texas Tribune and a Congressional reporter extraordinaire, to help me make sense of what sort of Republican civil war we’re about to return to next week.
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Happy post-Independence Day to you beautiful readers! The weather punished me for going to Canada for the 4th—I had three flights that were delayed—but I gotta say, Prince Edward’s Island is lovely. It’s like New Hampshire, but more French. And now that I’m back in the good ol’ U.S. of A, I wanted to sit down with our newest member of the Puck family: Abby Livingston, formerly of the Texas Tribune and a Congressional reporter extraordinaire, to help me make sense of what sort of Republican civil war we’re about to return to next week.

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