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In North Carolina, Roy Cooper is running an ad focusing on his tough-on-crime record. In Iowa, Rob Sand simply replied “no” when asked if he thought biological males should be able to play in women’s sport. In Georgia, Senator Jon Ossoff has rejected defunding the police. In Texas, James Talarico has embraced God.

These purity tests are absurd.

It is not up to you to decide whether a candidate’s views are acceptable. The voters of a state or district decide. What's important is that these candidates believe in expanding health care access, improving labor rights, and making corporations pay their taxes.

To house everyone from a megachurch pastor like Adam Hamilton, who is running for the Senate in Kansas, to Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, you need a big tent.

The coalition that passed Roosevelt's New Deal included everyone from Communist sympathizers to self-avowed white supremacists,