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Books by and about 2020 presidential candidates |
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Crippled America,
by Donald J. Trump (2015) |
Fire and Fury,
by Michael Wolff (2018) |
Trump Revealed,
by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher (2016) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2016) |
Promise Me, Dad ,
by Joe Biden (2017) |
The Book of Joe ,
by Jeff Wilser (2019; biography of Joe Biden) |
The Truths We Hold,
by Kamala Harris (2019) |
Smart on Crime,
by Kamala Harris (2010) |
Guide to Political Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2017) |
Where We Go From Here,
by Bernie Sanders (2018) |
Our Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2016) |
This Fight Is Our Fight,
by Elizabeth Warren (2017) |
United,
by Cory Booker (2016) |
Conscience of a Conservative,
by Jeff Flake (2017) |
Two Paths,
by Gov. John Kasich (2017) |
Every Other Monday,
by Rep. John Kasich (2010) |
Courage is Contagious,
by John Kasich (1998) |
Shortest Way Home,
by Pete Buttigieg (2019) |
Becoming,
by Michelle Obama (2018) |
Higher Loyalty,
by James Comey (2018) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2017) |
Trump vs. Hillary On The Issues ,
by Jesse Gordon (2016) |
Outsider in the White House,
by Bernie Sanders (2015) |
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Book Reviews |
(from Amazon.com) |
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
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Democratic candidates debate in Detroit Michigan, July 30-31, 2019
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from Democratic candidates debate in Detroit Michigan, July 30-31, 2019 (number of quotes indicated):
- Amy Klobuchar (7) Minnesota Democratic candidate for President; Minnesota Senator
- Andrew Yang (8) Democratic candidate for President; CEO
- Bernie Sanders (15) Democratic Presidential candidate
- Beto O`Rourke (12) Texas Democratic candidate for President; U.S. Rep from TX
- Bill de Blasio (10) New York Democratic primary candidate and NYC mayor
- Cory Booker (10) New Jersey Mayor of Newark; N.J. Senator
- Elizabeth Warren (21) Massachusetts Senator
- Jay Inslee (8) Washington Democratic Washington Governor
- Joe Biden (21) Democratic V.P.
- John Delaney (11) Maryland Democratic candidate for President; U.S. Rep from MD-6
- John Hickenlooper (7) Colorado Democratic Colorado Governor
- Julian Castro (11) Texas Mayor of San Antonio; HUD Secretary
- Kamala Harris (15) California Democratic candidate for President; California Senator
- Kirsten Gillibrand (8) New York Democratic candidate for President; New York Senator
- Marianne Williamson (6) Democratic candidate for President
- Michael Bennet (6) Colorado Democratic candidate for President; Colorado Senator
- Pete Buttigieg (10) Indiana Democratic candidate for President; Mayor of South Bend, IN
- Steve Bullock (10) Montana Democratic Montana Governor
- Tim Ryan (10) Ohio Democratic candidate for President; U.S. Rep from OH-13
- Tulsi Gabbard (9) Hawaii Democratic candidate for President; U.S. Rep from HI-2
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First Night Podium Positions
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- Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
- South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg
- Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar
- Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan
- Author Marianne Williamson
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- Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren
- Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke
- Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper
- Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney
- Montana Gov. Steve Bullock
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Second Night Podium Positions
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- Former Vice President Joe Biden
- New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker
- Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro
- New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
- Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet
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- California Sen. Kamala Harris
- Businessman Andrew Yang
- Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
- Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
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| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Joe Biden: Fact-Check: opposes Hyde Amendment, after decades of support.
Joe Biden: Unequivocal support for abortion rights; Congress must act.
Kamala Harris: Repeal Hyde Amendment; unacceptable that Biden voted for it.
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Budget & Economy
Andrew Yang: Redefine GDP to account for health & wellbeing.
Julian Castro: Economy isn't working even as Trump takes credit.
Elizabeth Warren: Democrats win when they fight for what's right.
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Civil Rights
Kirsten Gillibrand: They said repealing DADT was impossible, so I did it.
Beto O`Rourke: Legacy of slavery is alive and well: we need reparations.
Beto O`Rourke: We don't just tolerate our differences, we embrace them.
Elizabeth Warren: White supremacist racism is domestic terrorism.
Marianne Williamson: Reparations is a debt that is owed, not financial assistance.
Pete Buttigieg: Systemic racism has touched every part of American life.
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Corporations
Bernie Sanders: Corporate America doesn't give one damn about workers.
Bernie Sanders: Billionaires & corporations have to pay fair share of taxes.
Elizabeth Warren: Big, structural change against rigged system.
John Delaney: Investors should pay as much tax as workers.
Marianne Williamson: Rise up against the false God of corporate economics.
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Crime
Andrew Yang: Makes more sense to pay people to keep out of jail.
Bill de Blasio: Blames the feds for letting bad cops stay on police force.
Jay Inslee: Mass incarceration comes from school-to-prison pipeline.
Joe Biden: In 1990s we released 38,000 inmates, changed police rules.
Julian Castro: End qualified immunity to hold police officers accountable.
Julian Castro: Remove from the streets police officers who kill civilians.
Kamala Harris: FactCheck: Denied DNA evidence in 1980s; backtracked in 2018.
Kamala Harris: I chose the unpopular thing to NOT seek the death penalty.
Kirsten Gillibrand: I understand that whiteness protects white kids.
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Drugs
Cory Booker: Don't lock people up for drugs & poverty; lift them up.
Jay Inslee: I pardoned thousands of people with drug crimes.
Joe Biden: People arrested for drugs should go to rehab, not prison.
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Education
Julian Castro: Inner cities need help; invest in education.
Kamala Harris: FactCheck: Did not desegregate LA and SF school districts.
Amy Klobuchar: Let graduates refinance loans at a better rate.
Beto O`Rourke: Free 2-year college, and debt-free 4-year college.
Elizabeth Warren: Universal tuition-free college plus more for HBCUs.
Marianne Williamson: Getting rid of college debt will stimulate economy.
Pete Buttigieg: Public-service loan forgiveness program.
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Energy & Oil
Andrew Yang: Energy & Oil.
Cory Booker: Climate change is the lens through which we view every issue.
Jay Inslee: Climate change must be top priority; no middle ground.
Jay Inslee: We've got to do stop using coal in ten years.
Joe Biden: Either we run world trade or China will.
Joe Biden: Rejoin and raise standards of Paris Climate Accord.
Joe Biden: 500,000 charging stations so we're all-electric by 2030.
Kamala Harris: Rejoin Paris Accord on Day One; carbon neutral by 2030.
Tulsi Gabbard: Off Fossil Fuel Act: plan to deal with climate change.
Bernie Sanders: Need to be fervent if we care about our children.
Elizabeth Warren: Climate is the existential crisis for the world.
John Delaney: Keep climate change separate from other issues.
Pete Buttigieg: We have 12 years until climate catastrophe.
Steve Bullock: Climate change vs. jobs: that's a false choice.
Tim Ryan: We have to invent our way out of this.
Tim Ryan: Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon in soil.
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Environment
Bill de Blasio: Get rid of all lead in housing & schools, once and for all.
Jay Inslee: Middle ground solutions aren't going to save our air & water.
Julian Castro: I dealt with lead in water in Flint as HUD Secretary.
Kirsten Gillibrand: Why not have clean air and clean water for all Americans?
Beto O`Rourke: Bring everyone into process with conservation easements.
Marianne Williamson: Flint is just tip of the iceberg of environmental injustice.
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Families & Children
Joe Biden: As single father, I get it; target childcare tax break.
Kirsten Gillibrand: I raised kids while in Congress, working outside the home.
Michael Bennet: Kids belong in classrooms not cages.
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Free Trade
Joe Biden: Labor should be involved in renegotiating NAFTA/USMCA.
Kamala Harris: Trump's tariffs are a trade tax on workers and farmers.
Tulsi Gabbard: TPP gave away our sovereignty to international panel.
Tulsi Gabbard: Don't keep Trump tariffs on China.
Beto O`Rourke: Need allies in war, including trade wars.
Elizabeth Warren: NAFTA 2.0 is about Big Pharma extending exclusive profits.
Elizabeth Warren: Trade policy written by corporations to help corporations.
Elizabeth Warren: Having workers in trade negotiations is not extreme.
John Delaney: Obama was right on supporting Trans-Pacific Partnership.
John Hickenlooper: No trade war in history ever had a winner.
Steve Bullock: Blunt instrument of tariffs hurt farmers.
Tim Ryan: China steals intellectual property; out compete 'em.
Tim Ryan: China steals intellectual property & steals steel jobs.
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Government Reform
Cory Booker: Must lead the fight against voter suppression.
Elizabeth Warren: Why run for president to say what we can't do?
Marianne Williamson: For constitutional amendment for public funding of campaigns.
Pete Buttigieg: We need structural reform; we can reform our democracy.
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Gun Control
Amy Klobuchar: We passed universal background checks and NRA blocked it.
Amy Klobuchar: Gun violence is about politicians folding to the NRA.
Bernie Sanders: For background checks, and closing loopholes.
Beto O`Rourke: Money buys influence, access, and outcomes.
John Hickenlooper: Fundamental nonsense of government: Washington can't act.
Pete Buttigieg: What we're doing on gun violence isn't working.
Steve Bullock: Must address dark money to take on NRA.
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Health Care
Bill de Blasio: It's a myth that people like employer-based insurance.
Bill de Blasio: Private insurance hasn't worked for many; let voters decide.
Cory Booker: We spend multiple times what other countries do on health.
Joe Biden: Straightforward approach on healthcare, not ten year plans.
Joe Biden: Public option under ObamaCare covers vast majority for $750B.
Joe Biden: Limit co-pays to $1,000; keep your own insurance.
Joe Biden: Future of healthcare is biopharma; control those prices.
Joe Biden: Biden plan has public option; thinking otherwise is malarkey.
Joe Biden: I have only plan limiting insurance companies.
Julian Castro: Strengthen Medicare and then expand to anyone who wants it.
Kamala Harris: Medicare-for-All with 10-year transition and private option.
Kamala Harris: Cover everyone; don't leave out 10 million Americans.
Kamala Harris: Separate employment from healthcare, but not illegal.
Kamala Harris: For-profit insurers jack up co-pays and deductibles.
Kamala Harris: Huge profits for insurance; pharma on backs of families.
Kirsten Gillibrand: Money going to corporate profits, not health care.
Michael Bennet: Don't make employer-based health insurance illegal.
Michael Bennet: Against higher taxes & banning employer-based insurance.
Tulsi Gabbard: We don't have a healthcare system; it's a sick-care system.
Bernie Sanders: Get rid of all for-profit health insurance companies.
Bernie Sanders: Comprehensive care including dental, hearing aids, & eyecare.
Bernie Sanders: Took diabetics to Canada for insulin at 1/10th price.
Bernie Sanders: This is not radical; virtually every other country does it.
Bernie Sanders: Job-based insurance forces people to change providers.
Bernie Sanders: Healthcare as a human right includes immigrants.
Beto O`Rourke: Public option vs. Medicare for all a false choice.
Elizabeth Warren: For-profit insurance is not working for Americans.
Elizabeth Warren: No God-given right to suck billions in healthcare profit.
Elizabeth Warren: Costs will go up for billionaires, down for middle class.
Elizabeth Warren: Complicated forms gives insurance companies chance to say no.
Elizabeth Warren: We've tried private insurance; it sucks out billions.
John Delaney: Medicare-for-All creates a two-tier market for healthcare.
John Delaney: Don't be party of subtraction; don't take healthcare away.
John Delaney: Math is wrong on Medicare for All.
John Delaney: BetterCare: I understand the medical business.
John Hickenlooper: Public option ok; evolution, not revolution.
Marianne Williamson: We need to talk about causes, not just symptoms.
Pete Buttigieg: Pay more in taxes but less in healthcare premium.
Pete Buttigieg: My mother-in-law's life was saved by the ACA.
Steve Bullock: Medicare-for-All is wish-list economics.
Steve Bullock: We pay more for prescription drugs than anyplace in world.
Steve Bullock: Medicare-for-All is wish-list economics.
Tim Ryan: Unions fought for healthcare; let them keep their plans.
Tim Ryan: Medicare for 50-year-olds, and allow buy-in.
Tim Ryan: Focus on working class people who take showers after work.
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Homeland Security
Andrew Yang: I signed a pledge to end the Forever Wars.
Michael Bennet: $5T spent in Mideast could've fixed all our infrastructure.
Tulsi Gabbard: I will work to end this new Cold War.
Beto O`Rourke: We addressed suicide epidemic in El Paso VA & nationally.
Elizabeth Warren: No-first-use nuclear policy makes world safer.
Steve Bullock: Keep first use of nuclear weapons on the table.
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Immigration
Andrew Yang: Immigrants are being scapegoated; blame the machines.
Bill de Blasio: 11 million immigrants are here now and part of America.
Cory Booker: Decriminalize border crossings and treat people humanely.
Cory Booker: We should not pit some immigrants against others.
Jay Inslee: I'm proud to be first governor to accept Syrian refugees.
Joe Biden: We are strong & great BECAUSE of diversity, not despite it.
Joe Biden: We are strong & great BECAUSE of diversity, not despite it.
Joe Biden: Problem is Trump, not criminalizing illegal border crossings.
Joe Biden: We've been able to cherry pick the best of every culture.
Joe Biden: Seeking asylum isn't an illegal border crossing; assist them.
Julian Castro: Must decriminalize border crossing to stop family separation.
Kamala Harris: Kids whose parents crossed border are treated like criminals.
Kirsten Gillibrand: Treat people humanely at border; decriminalize to do so.
Michael Bennet: Don't decriminalize border; it's Trump's nativist hostility.
Tulsi Gabbard: Don't treat immigrants as second-class, but no free college.
Tulsi Gabbard: Secure borders AND humane immigration policies.
Amy Klobuchar: Immigrants don't diminish America; they ARE America.
Bernie Sanders: Xenophobia demonizes immigrants; refugees aren't criminals.
Beto O`Rourke: People who come here must follow our laws.
Elizabeth Warren: Fix the crisis at the border; don't just stir it up.
Elizabeth Warren: Laws matter; don't lock up people who come seeking asylum.
Elizabeth Warren: We need border security but must live by our values.
Pete Buttigieg: Crossing the border illegally should still be illegal.
Steve Bullock: Healthcare for immigrant means more border crossers.
Steve Bullock: Playing into Trumps hands, don't decriminalize.
Tim Ryan: Don't decriminalize people just walking into the US.
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Jobs
Andrew Yang: Empower women entrepreneurs with my $1000 per month plan.
Jay Inslee: Pay increases for teachers, nurses, and female-majority jobs.
Kamala Harris: Time for action: enforce equal pay for equal work.
Bernie Sanders: Ain't nobody in Congress more pro-worker than I am.
Elizabeth Warren: New jobs part of fighting climate change; it's all connected.
Pete Buttigieg: Let gig workers unionize.
Pete Buttigieg: Raise minimum wage, like Scripture tells us.
Tim Ryan: Create national Chief Manufacturing Officer.
Tim Ryan: Middle-class need 2 or 3 jobs just to get by.
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Principles & Values
Bill de Blasio: Restructure society: tax the hell out of the wealthy.
Bill de Blasio: Restructure society: tax the hell out of the wealthy.
Bill de Blasio: Impeach Trump, but Dems should talk about working people.
Cory Booker: Trump divides America; we need to heal and move forward.
Cory Booker: Understand our common purpose to address our common pain.
Cory Booker: Trump is acting as an authoritarian against the Constitution.
Julian Castro: Make America better than it's ever been.
Julian Castro: Help me build the future as one nation with one destiny.
Julian Castro: Trump should be impeached for obstruction of justice.
Julian Castro: Mueller Report is clear that Trump deserves impeachment.
Kamala Harris: Fight for the best of who we are.
Kamala Harris: Trump should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice.
Kirsten Gillibrand: Trump has torn apart fabric of this country.
Michael Bennet: Moral obligation to beat Trump, but don't impeach.
Tulsi Gabbard: Bring spirit of patriotism to the White House.
Amy Klobuchar: I'm the street-fighter from the Iron Range.
Bernie Sanders: Americans want "extreme" Democratic-Socialist solutions.
Beto O`Rourke: America discovers its greatness at moments of greatest need.
John Delaney: Platform of real solutions, not impossible promises.
John Delaney: We win on reality instead of fairy-tale economics.
John Hickenlooper: Favoring socialism is a disaster at the ballot box.
John Hickenlooper: I share progressive values, but I'm more pragmatic.
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Social Security
John Delaney: We didn't make private pensions illegal for Social Security.
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Tax Reform
Bill de Blasio: Tax the hell out of the wealthy.
John Delaney: Raise capital gains rate, but no unconstitutional taxes.
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Technology
Andrew Yang: Automation of our jobs the central challenge we face.
Andrew Yang: Technology.
Joe Biden: In battle for America's soul we choose science over fiction.
Amy Klobuchar: We need infrastructure plan; fix the damn roads.
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War & Peace
Bill de Blasio: Stop the march to war in Iran.
Cory Booker: No military action by Tweet; out of Afghanistan later.
Jay Inslee: We need a president to stand up against drums of war.
Tulsi Gabbard: No arbitrary deadline, but out of Afghanistan in one year.
Bernie Sanders: More terrorists after spending trillions on War on Terror.
Beto O`Rourke: Withdraw from Afghanistan within four years.
Beto O`Rourke: End U.S. wars in Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Syria.
Elizabeth Warren: Negotiate for nuclear non-proliferation, including Iran.
John Hickenlooper: Don't turn our backs on Afghanistan by withdrawing US troops.
Steve Bullock: We need nuclear deterrence against North Korea and others.
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Welfare & Poverty
Kirsten Gillibrand: We used to care about the least among us.
Amy Klobuchar: Economic opportunity must be for everyone.
Bernie Sanders: Focus big time on rebuilding distressed communities.
Elizabeth Warren: Wealth tax of two cents, to fund education and childcare.
John Hickenlooper: Make the case that we can deliver an urban agenda.
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The above quotations are from Democratic candidates debate in Detroit Michigan, July 30-31, 2019.
Debates and Surveys in the 2020 Democratic Primary:
- 11th Democratic Debate, one-on-one between Biden and Sanders, March 15, 2020
- 10th Democratic Debate, between South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday, Feb. 25 2020
- Feb. 2020 Democratic Debate (9th Debate) on eve of the Nevada caucus, Feb. 19 2020
- February Democratic candidates debate in N.H., (Feb. 7, 2020)
- CNN New Hampshire Town Halls (Feb. 5-6, 2020)
- January Democratic candidates debate in Des Moines, (Jan. 14, 2020)
- December Democratic candidates debate at UCLA, (Dec. 19, 2019)
- November Democratic candidates debate in Atlanta, (Nov. 20, 2019)
- October Democratic candidates debate in Ohio, (Oct. 15, 2019)
- CNN LGBT Town Hall (Oct. 10, 2019)
- Business Insider Republican candidates debate, (Sept. 24, 2019)
- September Democratic candidates debate in Houston, (Sept. 12, 2019)
- CNN Climate Town Hall (Sept. 4, 2019)
- July Democratic candidates debate in Detroit (July 30-31, 2019)
- June Democratic candidates debate in Miami, (June 26-27, 2019)
- CNN Town Halls (April-May, 2019)
Surveys and other coverage of the Democratic Primary:
- Survey of 2020 Presidential campaign websites
- Politico 2020Dems Presidential survey
- NPR Morning Edition 2020 Presidential survey
- CNN Kfile, investigative reporting on presidential contenders
- Jacobin Magazine, socialist perspectives on presidential contenders
- CNN Town Halls, with presidential contenders
- Fox Town Halls, with presidential contenders
- 2020 Presidential Hopefuls by OnTheIssues.org
Books by 2020 Presidential hopefuls:
- The Truths We Hold, by Kamala Harris (2019)
- Shortest Way Home, by Pete Buttigieg (2019)
- The Mueller Report, investigation and commentary (2019)
- From the Ground Up, by Howard Schultz (2019)
- Where We Go From Here, by Bernie Sanders (2018)
- The Right Answer, by John Delaney (2018)
- An Unlikely Journey, by Julian Castro (2018)
- Healing the Soul of America, by Marianne Williamson (2018)
- Promise Me, Dad, by Joe Biden (2017)
- This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren (2017)
- The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston (2017)
- United, by Cory Booker (2016)
- The Opposite of Woe, by John Hickenlooper (2016)
- The Senator Next Door, by Amy Klobuchar (2015)
- Off the Sidelines, Kirsten Gillibrand (2014)
- Dealing Death and Drugs, by Beto O'Rourke (2011)
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