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    What I learned covering the democracy reform movement's evolution

    David Hawkings
    April 30, 2021
    The Fulcrum staff: Geoff West, Jessica Puchala, Bill Theobald, Sara Swann, David Meyers, David Hawkings, Tristiaña Hinton.

    Our staff in its heyday, at a holiday axe-throwing party in 2019. From left: reporter Geoff West, senior director of marketing Jessica Puchala, senior writer Bill Theobald, reporter Sara Swann, publisher David Meyers, the author and audience development editor Tristiaña Hinton.

    Hawkings is the founding editor-in-chief of The Fulcrum and has been a Washington correspondent and editor for 32 years.
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    Biden uses Georgia trip to keep pressing Congress on democracy reform bills

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    ​President Biden and first lady Jill Biden board Air Force One for a flight to Georgia on Thursday.

    President Biden and first lady Jill Biden board Air Force One for a flight to Georgia on Thursday.

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    President Biden is spending Thursday in Georgia, the symbolic center of the voting rights debate, hours after making an impassioned call for reforming and sustaining democracy the finale for his first address to Congress.

    The main reason for the trip is to pitch his ambitious $4 trillion plans to refashion the economy, rebuild its physical underpinnings and expand the government's social services system. But he's also visiting Jimmy Carter, who won the presidency on a promise to revive democratic norms after Watergate, and holding a rally in a place that's long been central to the voting rights fight.

    "We have to prove democracy still works," Biden said at the wrapped up his nationally televised speech Wednesday night. He urged quick passage of the sweeping remake of federal election, campaign finance and government ethics rules known as HR 1 along with separate legislation to revive federal oversight in places with histories of voter suppression.

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