The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Umbrella Movement Victory: Pro-Independence Candidates Win Seats in Hong Kong Election
In a result likely to shake up Hong Kong politics and strain relations with China, a new generation of young pro-independence candidates from the Occupy Central "Umbrella movement" won five seats.
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Umbrella Resurgence As Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Protests Retake the Streets
Packed roads resembled rivers of yellow as protesters carried yellow banners and umbrellas – a symbol of last year's campaign after protesters used them to fend off police pepper spray attacks.
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Hong Kong Police Arrest Last Protesters, Clearing Umbrella Movement Occupation
Politicians, a pop singer and a media tycoon were among those detained as pro-democracy demonstrators were forcibly removed from city center on Thursday.
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Umbrella Politics: What American Movements Can Learn From the Hong Kong Protests
Hong Kong activists are fighting to exercise the simple right that Americans would be taking for granted the very next day.
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Hong Kong Police Violently Drive Out Pro-Democracy Protesters, Arresting Dozens
Police baton charges left some protesters prostrate and bleeding while volleys of pepper spray left others vomiting and temporarily blind, with at least 40 people taken to hospital.
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Protesters in Hong Kong on Edge as Police Track Their Online Footprints
The pro-democracy movement has relied heavily on social media and messaging apps to mobilize protesters – and recent arrests from online activity has a "chilling effect" that "scares people away."
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500 Arrests After Hundreds of Thousands Occupy Central Hong Kong
Most of those arrested were students who had pledged to flood the street until 8am on Wednesday despite vows by police to take decisive action if the "unlawful assembly" were to proceed.
