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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-01T04:46:40.000Z",
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  "textContent": "On June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine, stood up against Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin and his supporters, who were undermining American democracy in a crusade against “communism.”",
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