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Marissa Martinez

Marissa Martinez is a politics reporter at The 19th.

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GOP House majority shrinks as Democrat wins New Jersey special election

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People cast their ballots at a vote center in Los Angeles, on November 4, 2025, where Proposition 50 is the only measure on the ballot in the state’s special election. Californians were voting November 4 in a ballot measure likely to further tilt the liberal state towards the Democrats, as the party seeks to neutralize gerrymandering ordered by President Donald Trump. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN/Getty Images)

GOP states are taking up voting laws modeled after Trump’s SAVE America Act

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Dolores Huerta, labor leader, civil rights activist and co-founder of United Farm Workers, speaks during Together for Democracy 2026, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Democracy Forward)

Women leading farmworker movement won’t let it be defined by Cesar Chavez

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Voters cast their ballots at the Lucky Shoals Park Recreation Center on November 5, 2024 in Norcross, Georgia. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

House passes elections overhaul bill that could make it harder for married women to vote

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