The Inside Story of What Happened Behind the Scenes Among the Organizers of the Cynthia Boyar Trejo Recall
Author’s note, the following is partly derived from Signal chats provided to us anonymously. To present the story with full context, we have quoted inappropriate language in a couple of chats we quote. The article was updated to include comments Jonathan Zayan sent us after we had published the article. Shortly before the people behind…
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