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Trump is blowing it on immigration
Donald Trump is losing his best issue. (Image credit: Joey Sussman/Shutterstock)
Today’s article is from Blas Nuñez-Neto, a Searchlight Senior Fellow and former Biden administration assistant secretary for border and immigration policy at...
This is how you build a supermajority
A supermajority means 370 electoral college votes. (Image credit: 270 to win)
You’re likely familiar with the debate about the electoral benefits of ‘moderation.’ One side argues that moving to the center will appeal to more voters, and th...
We spoke to over 9,000 voters. Left and right doesn’t describe the American electorate
There are nine distinct ideological groups within the American electorate (Image source: Searchlight Political Neighborhood Project)
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The American electorate is more complicated than Democrat and Republican, liberal or conser...
Why do we have a debtor class of five year olds?
The first federal school lunch program started as a means to combat rampant food insecurity and sell excess farm crops in WWII (Image Source: Richard B. Russell Jr. Collection.)
Americans notoriously rack up a lot of debt. Some of this deb...
I know a misleading climate poll when I see one
The climate community can’t keep misleading itself (Image Source: Searchlight illustration/Shutterstock)
When I was the Executive Director of the progressive polling firm Data for Progress, I wrote and read hundreds of climate polling ques...
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Immigration Nerd. Policy Wonk. Coffee Enthusiast. Senior Fellow @ the Searchlight Institute. Former DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Immigration Policy.
Senior Fellow at Searchlight Institute focusing on health care. Former health policy director for Senate HELP Committee.
Writing about unemployment insurance, labor markets, and how public programs actually work for the people using them.
data nerd in politics, I can also be found @charlotteeffect on Twitter and bluesky
Mara Keisling is a Senior Fellow at Searchlight. She has spent over 30 years as a trans activist including almost 20 as the Founding Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
President and Founder at the Searchlight Institute | Author of KILL SWITCH and SUPERMAJORITY coming soon from W. W. Norton
Senior Policy Advisor at the Searchlight Institute. Formerly a Policy Analyst at the Niskanen Center, a Research Fellow at Boston University, & a Field Organizer at Bernie Sanders for President. MSc in Population Health.
policy and things @ searchlight
VP @ Searchlight Institute | Senate Snob™ | Cynically Happy Warrior
Blas has been working for more than 20 years on homeland security, immigration, border, and trade issues. He has served in senior roles at the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Chief of Staff at the Searchlight Institute. Pittsburgher in DC.
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Mainer at Tufts studying politics.
Tax Policy (and sometimes trade) at Searchlight Institute
Senior Fellow, Searchlight Institute; Fellow, Watson School at Brown University's Watson School; Author, "Why Nothing Work: Who Killed Progress--And How to Bring It Back."
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