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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-24T21:19:45.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.motherjones.com",
  "tags": [
    "Environment",
    "Food",
    "Politics",
    "Climate Change",
    "Donald Trump",
    "Elections"
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  "textContent": "Editor’s note: O’Rourke ended her candidacy on March 23. On an unseasonably hot October day, a small crowd gathered at Genesis Farm, a 226-acre nonprofit in Blairstown, New Jersey, to help pull up beets before winter set in. It was the farm’s annual harvest festival and for Megan O’Rourke, a former federal climate scientist running […]",
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