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H.R. 1 in 2019 and What a New Majority's First Bill Is Meant to Say The For the People Act passed the House in March 2019 and never became law. Here is the case that a symbolic first bill still shapes what a majority becomes, and what 2027's should say. Harry and Louise and the Collapse of the 1994 Clinton Health Plan Two actors at a kitchen table helped sink the Clinton health plan. Here is how the ads worked, why the bill died without a floor vote, and what reformers learned. The Omaha Platform of 1892 and the Reforms It Wrote for the Next Fifty Years A third party of indebted farmers met in Omaha on July 4, 1892, lost the election, and still wrote the income tax, direct election of senators and more into law. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 Was a Bipartisan Deal Worth Studying How Ronald Reagan, Bill Bradley and Dan Rostenkowski traded lower rates for closing tax shelters in 1986, why the deal worked, and how the bargain came apart in the decades after. Truman's 1945 Health Plan and the AMA Campaign That Buried It How Truman's 1945 call for national health insurance died: a two-word label, a California consulting firm, a famous painting and a lobbying drive paid for by doctors. Why State Supreme Court Elections Now Help Decide Congressional Maps Wisconsin's 2023 court race was the costliest judicial election in US history because state justices now decide map fights. Why these races deserve your vote.