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Republicans like to claim that Washington State taxes are too high. Especially on social media sites such as nextdoor.com, there are lots of posts comparing tax rates over the years and considering population growth...
States that voted for Trump in 2024 tended to be less educated. The scatter plots below show this fact dramatically. Notice how the data slopes downwards to the right. The most educated states —...
In recent weeks, Republicans in the White House and elsewhere have leveled increasingly deranged accusations: that Antifa is a unified, militant organization behind violence and assassinations. Republicans blamed “Antifa radicals” for the murder of...
On March 12, 2025, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) was interviewed on a webinar with Quincy Institute of Responsible Statecraft. As former chair and ranking member of the the House Armed Services Committee, Smith (no...
By Donald A. Smith Using data from VoteView and software that I wrote, I made visualizations of U.S. senators based on their 2023 rollcall votes. The visualizations use Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and tsne...