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Kira Lerner

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Kira Lerner is a political reporter at ThinkProgress, where she covers a wide range of policy issues with a focus on voting rights and criminal justice reform. Her reporting on campaigns, elections, town halls, and the resistance movement has taken her to a long list of states across the country (but she's still working on hitting 50). A native of the Washington, D.C. area, she holds a degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

South Florida voters wait in line to cast their ballots late in the day at a busy polling center in Miami, Florida on November 6, 2018. Photo by RHONA WISE / AFP/ GETTY IMAGES

Floridians with felony convictions have regained the vote. Now, what will get them to the polls?

Kira Lerner Nov 15, 2018
Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams addresses supporters at an election watch party on November 6, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia.  Abrams and her opponent, Republican Brian Kemp, are in a tight race that is too close to call.  A runoff for Georgia's governor is likely.  (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

Abrams campaign wins court rulings as push for a runoff election continues

Kira Lerner Nov 13, 2018
People protest outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Canada's Vancouver on Feb. 28, 2017, the building's official opening day. (Xinhua/Liang Sen via Getty Images)

Trump properties made millions off the midterm election

Kira Lerner Nov 11, 2018
Far right protesters march in Tom McCall Waterfront Park as part of the Patriot Prayer Rally. (Photo by Kainoa Little/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

PayPal draws controversy for banning Antifa alongside far-right Proud Boys

Kira Lerner Nov 11, 2018
Inmate firefighters from Oak Glen Conservation Camp clear vegetation that could fuel a wildfire near a road under the authority of Cal Fire which calls and treats them as firefighters rather than inmates while they are away from the minimum security prison on September 28, 2017 near Yucaipa, California. (Photo by DAVID MCNEW / AFP)

California is using inmate labor to fight its deadly wildfires

Kira Lerner Nov 11, 2018
Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams addresses supporters at an election watch party on November 6, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia.  Abrams and her opponent, Republican Brian Kemp, are in a tight race that is too close to call.  A runoff for Georgia's governor is likely.  (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

Stacey Abrams vows to fight on as tens of thousands of ballots are still uncounted in Georgia

Kira Lerner Nov 8, 2018
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