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Brady back on Civics 101!

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I’m very happy to say I’m back on NHPR’s Civics 101 podcast, as part of their series on midterm elections! My job is to tell the story of famous midterm campaigns in American history, and I found a pretty good one to kick things off – the 1826 campaign. Check it out here.

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