“Greece would not have fallen had it obeyed Polybius in everything, and when Greece did meet disaster, its only help came from him” — Pausanias, 8.37.2, Inscription on the Temple of Despoina near Arakesion
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“Greece would not have fallen had it obeyed Polybius in everything, and when Greece did meet disaster, its only help came from him” — Pausanias, 8.37.2, Inscription on the Temple of Despoina near Arakesion
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After 2024, a well-funded turnout machine went looking for about 20 million people who had voted in 2020 and then stayed home in ‘24. The well-known researcher known as DataRepublican (Jennica Pounds) called the effort “19M for 19M”: early voting, door knocks, texts and voter mobilization run by Democratic NGOs and related groups. Here’s the story in pictures, illustrated for Washington Post readers by summer intern Biff Spackle.
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