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Mark Pocan: “Capital Times as a newspaper with a really long progressive…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 42 with John Nichols

Published | Video Starts at 08:16

And I think that served me, you know, throughout. Throughout my time in journalism since. Yeah. And then eventually, of course, you came back to Wisconsin to the Capitol Times and Capital Times as a newspaper with a really long progressive history. Right. A truly long progressive history. In fact, the Capitol Times was founded in 1917 to support Robert M. La Follette in his opposition to World War I. (08:16–08:21)

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