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Our congressmen Tom Tiffany and Derrick VanOrden call the Progressive’s ideas ‘RADICAL

Our congressmen Tom Tiffany and Derrick VanOrden call the Progressive’s ideas ‘RADICAL
The radical ideas of Progressives
Our congressmen Tom Tiffany and Derrick VanOrden call the Progressive’s ideas ‘RADICAL
The radical ideas of Progressives

Our congressmen Tom Tiffany and Derrick VanOrden call the Progressive’s ideas ‘RADICAL.’

I thought I should list some of these ‘radical’ ideas:

• Healthcare for everyone (li...

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