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State GOP Leader Urges Everyone to Get Vaccinated ASAP A subject receives of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine during an early clinical trial. Ted S. Warren / AP Share In It Together | April 29, 2021 For most of last year, Tom Mountain was skeptical of the threat posed by COVID-19 — that is, until he caught the disease and got very, very sick. Mountain, vice chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee, said he believes he got sick at a White House Hanukkah party where people wore masks to get through security but took them off to mingle. Mountain was hospitalized twice and was almost ...

All Massachusetts residents age 16 and older can now sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine, but that doesn’t mean everyone eligible will want the shot. In the coming weeks, state public health officials expect demand to slow down, and the hardest push, many believe, will be reaching out to those who are reluctant. That includes Republican men, who were some of the most hesitant in recent national polling. Town clerk and librarian Jodie Paradis has seen this hesitation in Russell, a town of just under 2,000 residents in southwestern Massachusetts. Russell is 96% white and mostly Republican. In 2020...

Jennifer Horn is done with Trump and the Republican Party. "Unfortunately, I no longer consider it my party, after watching how they conducted themselves post-election," she says. Horn is the former chair of the New Hampshire GOP and a co-founder of the Lincoln Project — a group of former Republican operatives who produced some of the toughest anti-Trump campaign ads of the election. When most Congressional Republicans refused to condemn Trump's unfounded claims of election fraud, Horn quit the party last month. Her disgust hardened after pro-Trump extremists attacked the Capitol — and 14...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable.   Last week, Meghan McCain, daughter of deceased Senator John McCain, returned to her seat on the daytime talk show, The View, after taking maternity leave. McCain is the most conservative voice on the show and surprised the audience by making a pitch for legislated paid maternity leave. However, her pitch caused many to question why it took her own experience for her to come around to...

Tom Mountain at the White House Hanukkah event on Dec. 9, 2020. (Courtesy Tom Mountain) Tom Mountain, vice chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party, once scoffed at the virus and at those who wore masks. That is, until he contracted the disease himself — most likely at a White House Hanukkah party held on Dec. 9. WBUR sat down with Mountain to hear his story. Interview Highlights Mountain on the White House event where he probably caught the virus: "As vice chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party and the vice chair of the Massachusetts Republican Jewish Committee, I annually go to th...