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Semper Fi: The Way to Win

Lane Evans’ career in Congress teaches progresssives a lasting lesson.

By David Moberg

In the depths of the 1982 Reagan recession, when rustbelt manufacturing towns like Rock Island and the surrounding western Illinois farm country convulsed with deep economic pain, a young legal services attorney set off on what seemed like a quixotic quest—campaigning as a Democrat for a congressional seat that, outside one brief hiatus, had been held by Republicans for more than… return to article

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