What The Fight To Save The ACA Could Teach Us Right Now

"The ACA fight proved that Americans want progress...It only worked because ordinary Americans refused to let it be taken away."

Apr 11, 2025

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Evelyn Quartz is a former staffer for progressives on Capitol Hill, having spent the first Trump term in the opposition as America witnessed Trump impeached twice, the Muslim ban, the Kavanaugh hearings, the Me Too movement, and much more.

It was the height of Donald Trump’s first term and the most profound scene I’d go on to witness as a congressional …

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Evelyn Quartz

Former Capitol Hill Staffer. Writing about the collapse of liberal politics, the limits of symbolic protest, and the deeper questions we’ve been trained not to ask. Essays on power, legitimacy, and what it would take to build something real.