Rockingham County Republican Committee
Explainers
Understanding Government Policy
Federal Policy
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Presidential Records Act of 1978
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Executive Order 13489 - Presidential Records January 21, 2009 (Barack Obama)
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Mar 28, 2024, More Anti-Gun Groups Fabricate Mass Shooting Data, Second Amendment Foundation
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Feb 28, 2024, Cable Warfare: New Undersea Threat Is Starting to Reshape Naval Wars, Naval News
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Dec 20, 2023, The Full Map: All Ships Attacked by Yemen's Houthis in the Red Sea, Haaretz
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Nov 9, 2023, A Chinese Dispute With the Philippines In a Test for America, The Economist
[China wishes to expose the U.S. as an unreliable ally]
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Nov 9, 2023, Surge and Swarm: How China's Ships Control the South China Sea, Wall Street Journal
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Sept 27, 2023, What We Do and Don't Know About Gender Transition Treatments on Minors, Daily Signal
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Aug 9, 2023, Why Don't Young People Want to Join the Military?, USA Facts
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June 28, 2023, Abortion Rates Skyrocketed in Post-Dobbs America, The Republican Standard
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Jun 21, 2023, Which States Have the Highest Property Tax Burdens, USA Facts
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June 14, 2023, An Rx for Persistent Problem of Prescription Drug Shortages, Daily Signal
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May 2, 2023, Five Ways the Debit Limit Crisis Could Play Out, Washington Examiner
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Apr 14, 2023, That Kaiser Family Foundation Gun Study the Media Love is Garbage, The Federalist
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Mar 10, 2023, More Retiree Health Plans Move Away from Traditional Medicare, New York Times
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Feb 28, 2023, Which States Have the Lowest Tax Burdens?, USA FACTS
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Feb 21, 2023, Two Migrants Stoned to Death by Smugglers on Southern Border, Daily Signal
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Feb 19, 2023, Patients Are Dying in Emergency Rooms, Med Page Today
[Opinion: Call for HHS and CMS to address the issue of emergency department boarding. Board is what happens when they are no inpatient rooms and a patient waits in the halls until a room becomes available.]
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[Cross-sex changes bring massive cash influx to hospital, pharmaceutic and medical companies. The financial rewards are driving support for gender affirming care.]
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Feb 16, 2023, Despite What You Might Have Heard, Wildlife Populations Are Thriving, Daily Signal
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Feb 16, 2023, Dye Found in 90 Percent of Foods Has Harmful Effect on Gut: Study, New York Post
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Feb 14, 2023, 2023 State of the Union in Numbers, USA Facts
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Feb 7, 2023, Most Women Who Had Abortions Say They Felt Pressure To Do So, Study Says, Daily Caller
[61% of women who admitted to having an abortion said they had external pressure to have the procedure, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute]
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Feb 6, 2023, Here's How Much Farmland Has Been Bought Up By China, Daily Caller
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Feb 3, 2023, U.S. Health Care Reaches Record Lows After Decade of Obamacare, The Republican Standard
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[duplicated methodology, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and compromised peer review process]
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Dec 26, 2022, Five Places Where Companies Are Moving Their Supply Chains, Business Insider
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2023 Farm Bill Primers, American Enterprise Institute
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Dec 20, 2022, New Label Law Has Unintended Effect: More Sesame in Foods, Associated Press
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Nov 4, 2022, Biden Quietly Scrubs 5 Key Words From Nuclear Doctrine, Western Journal
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Oct 14, 2022, Four Myths Jon Stewart Perpetuated About Radical Gender Theory, Daily Signal
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Oct 11, 2022, Fourteen Ways Marijuana Harms Users Mentally, Physically and Financially, Daily Signal
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Sept 27, 2022, CIA Saw Nordstream Gas Pipeline Blasts Coming Weeks Ago, Daily Caller
[Blasts occurred underwater in the Baltic on both the parallel Nordstream 1 and parallel Nordstream 2 Lines]
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Aug 29, 2022, Nine Past Climate Change Predictions, Daily Signal
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Aug 24, 2022, Why Biden's Student Loan Bailout is Unfair, Daily Signal
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[Law Professors warned that proposal reqiring law schools to diversify their student bodies would lead to illegal discrimination]
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Aug 7, 2022, Here's the Truth About What the Inflation Reduction Act Would Do, Daily Signal
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Aug 2, 2022, Time Is Running Out to Prepare for War in the Pacific, The National Interest
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July 25, 2022, Getting Ready for a Long War With China: Dynamaics of a Protracted Conflict in the Western Pacific, American Enterprise Institute
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July 11, 2022, The Koch-Soros Crackup, Washington Free Beacon
[The jointly-funded Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft fold up the appeasement think tank}
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July 6, 2022, Child Smuggling Linked to Big Tech Platform Usage, Republican Informer
[Criminal organizations use social media for recruitment of minors]
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June 5, 2022, Analyst Warns China Could Exploit US Military Weakness, American Liberty News
[China building missiles and carriers to exploit US weakness]
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May 30, 2022, What Happens To Abortion State By State If Roe Is Overturned, Daily Signal
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[Long-awaited title IX changes may eliminate due processes, open women's spaces to biological men]
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May 9, 2022, Chinese Carrier Strike Group Continues Drills Near Japan, US Naval Institute News
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May 6, 2022, Report to the Congress on Hypersonic Weapons, USNI News
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May 6, 2022, US Spy Put Top Secret Files Online, And Left Them Exposed, American Liberty News
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[The Association of Former Members of Congress has hosted multiple events for the United States-China Exchange Foundation, China's leading think tank in the US. It is the only remaining organization to do so.]
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May 3, 2022, Massive Chinese Fleet Seen Barreling Toward US Military Port in Japan, Daily Caller
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Apr 28, 2022, How Israel Use Innovation to Beat Its Water Crisis, Israel 21C
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Apr 22, 2022, A New Horizon for the US-Uzbekistan Relationship, Daily Signal
[An allyagainst Russia in the Central Asia region with a market-based economy]
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[Russia has emphasized mass production for overwhelming force, but tanks with auto ammunition loading appear to be less resilient and vulnerable to vibration and shaking setting off ammunition]
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[Sinking of Russian Black Sea Flagship raises questions about the effectiveness of its defenses]
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Apr 9, 2022, China Stockpiling Nuclear Weapons At An Alarming Rate: Report, Daily Caller
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Mar 22, 2022, What You Need to Know About Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Daily Signal
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Mar 14, 2022, How Russia's War on Ukraine Can Impact the United States, USAFacts
Mar 14, 2022, Here's Why Everyone is Talking About Ukrainian Bio-labs, Daily Caller
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Mar 8, 2022, How Environmentalists Help Putin, Daily Signal
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Mar 3, 2022, Answers to 6 Big Questions About Putin's Nuclear Threats, Daily Signal
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Feb 24, 2022, How Three Seas Initiative Could Be Antidote to Russia's Energy Coercion, Daily Signal
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Feb 23, 2022, The Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Explained, Daily Signal
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Feb 21, 2022, What Happens to Old Batteries in Electric Cars?, Consumer Reports
[More than 100 fully-electric models will be for sale in 2024]
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Feb 18, 2022, Revisionist Media 'Explainer' Articles Insist That Nobody Spied on Trump, Daily Signal
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Jan 12, 2022, Why Voter ID Laws Make Sense, Daily Signal
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Jan 11, 2022, How Kazakhstan's Unrest Threatens America's Interests, Daily Signal
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Jan 11, 2022, Congress Must Strike While Iron's Hot to Preempt Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, Daily Signal
[However Democrats in Congress who supported sanction on the pipeline are backing off]
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Jan 2, 2022, Five Major issues the US Military Will Face in 2022, Washington Examiner
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Dec 25, 2021, Here are the 2022 Risks that Official Washington is Talking About, Daily Caller
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Dec 21, 2021, European Natural Gas Prices Hit Record After Russia Cuts Pipeline, Daily Caller
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Dec 20, 2021, Despite What the White House Says, Obamacare is Deeply Troubled, Daily Caller
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Dec 16, 2021, It's Official: Texas Border Wall Construction Begins, Daily Wire
[Texas begins building border wall]
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Dec 12, 2021, Fortenberry Indictment Raises Questions About FBI Tactics, Politico
[FBI secretly recorded Representative in probe of illegal sources from abroad]
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Dec 10, 2021, Most Commonly Spoken Language in the US After English and Spanish, Visual Capitalist
[Mandarin and Cantonese in many states]
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Dec 11, 2021, Why Can't We Talk About the Murder Wave?, Washington Free Beacon
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Dec 10, 2021, Fifty-five Dead After Truck Smuggling Migrants Crashes, Washington Free Beacon
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Dec 10, 2021, Inflation Hits Highest Level in 39 Years, Daily Caller
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Dec 9, 2021, China Vows To Fire On US Troops That Come To Taiwan's Aid, Washington Free Beacon
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Dec 9, 2021, How Trial Lawyers Team With Leftist Activists to Hurt Consumers, Daily Signal
Dec 8, 2021, House Passes Major Defense Bill, Here's What In It, Daily Caller
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Dec 7, 2021, Biden Bureaucrats Quietly Increase Federal Control Over Health Care, Daily Signal
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Dec 7, 2021, Deportations Plummet 90 Percent on Biden's Watch, Washington Free Beacon
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Dec 1, 2021, Here are the Key Takeaways from the Supreme Court Abortion Case Hearing, Daily Signal
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Nov 23, 2021, The Responsiveness of Medicaid Spending to Federal Subsidy, Hoover Institution
[Medicaid spending per enrollee responds to the magnitude of the federal subsidy. States that exercised the optionto expand under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased Medicaid spending per enrollee on enrollees who were eligible even before the ACA by approximately 15 percent.
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Nov 21, 2021, Durham Instigation Intrigue: Sergei Millian, An FBI Plant?, Team Tucker Carlson
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Nov 18, 2021, Supreme Court Takes Up Challenges to Near Limitless Power of EPA, Daily Signal
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Nov 16, 2021, Four Highlights from Mayorkas' Testimony on Border Crisis, Daily Signal
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Nov 16, 2021, Biden's Infrastructure Bill Likely to Worsen Supply-Chain Issues, Daily Signal
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Nov 15, 2021, U.S. Engagement with Indo-Pacific Requires Greater Trade and Investment, Daily Signal
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Nov 12, 2021, Democrats Push Tax Credit to Incentivize Donations to Unions, Daily Signal
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Nov 9, 2021, To Protect Women, Trust the Science on Abortion, Daily Signal
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Nov 5, 2021, Merrick Garland Abuses His Authority to Suppress Dissent, Daily Signal
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Nov 5, 2021, Biggest Means-Tested Welfare Increase Would Hurt Not Help Poor, Daily Signal
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Nov 4, 2021, Biden's Botched Exit from Afghanistan Just Got Worse For Young Girls, Daily Signal [sales of child brides has increased]
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Nov 2, 2021, As Russia Invests in the Arctic, America Falls Behind, Daily Signal
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Nov 2, 2021, How the Doha Agreement Guaranteed US Failure in Afghanistan, Hoover Institution
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Oct 27, 2021, Ten Ways Biden's 'Build Back Better' Bill Will Kill Economic Opportunity, Daily Signal
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Oct 13, 2021, 'Build Back Better' Would Make Medicaid Bigger, But With Less Flexibility, Daily Signal
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Oct 9, 2021, Chinese Hackers Breached Afghan Telecom Company as US Withdrew, Washington Free Beacon
[Breach could yield lots of user data]
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Oct 8, 2021, Biden's Taxes Would Hit Many Americans, Daily Signal
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Sept 28, 2021, Seven Takeaways as Generals Testify on Afghanistan, China Phone Calls, Daily Signal
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[American Association of Obsteticians and Gynecologists has deep ties to the abortion industry]
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August 17, 2021, Here's What You Need to Know About the Situation in Afghanistan, Daily Signal
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July 17, 2021, 'A Blaring Siren' for Democrats After Ruling Halts DACA, Associated Press
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July 13, 2021, Federal Court Rules Over 18 but Under 21 Handgun Gun Bans Are Illegal, The Federalist
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July 6, 2021, Why You Should Still Care About Big Labor's Disproportionate Clout, Daily Signal
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June 28, 2021, Biden's Medicare Plan Spells Trouble for the Whole System, The Hill
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June 28, 2021, Biden Administration is Skewing Carbon Numbers to Push Regulations, Daily Signal
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June 21, 2021, Climate Disclosures and Their Stealth Mission, Hoover Institution
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['birthing people' is woke language used with the intention of being more inclusive of those who do not have gender identities. This term replaces maternal and the role of mothers in society]
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June 9, 2021, Nine Reasons Why Federal Unemployment Bonus Subsidies Need to Go, Daily Signal
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May 26, 2021, Breaking Down Biden's 'Ghost Gun' Rules, Daily Signal​
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May 24, 2021, The Problem with the Nonbinary Trend, Washington Examiner
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May 23, 2021, Not Just Another Drought: The American West Moves from Dry to Bone Dry, Resilience
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May 21, 2021, Analysis: The CDC's Guidance Change Can't Have Been Driven By Science, Daily Caller
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May 21, 2021, Three Pitfalls of Bidenomics, Washington Examiner
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May 18, 2021, What Americans Should Know About Interpol Abuse, Daily Signal
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May 13, 2021, Seven Points from Homeland Secretary's Grilling on the Border, Daily Signal
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Virginia and Other State Policy
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June 23, 2022, How Common Is It For Prisoners to Re-Offend?, USA Facts
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June 7, 2021, Stephen D. Haner, "Northam Regs Out of Step with Reality," Jefferson Policy Journal
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May 12, 2021, Northam Tax Harvest Expands Again, Jefferson Policy Journal
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