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Longtime Liberal Congressman Chooses Retirement Over a Tough Fight

Democrat Steve Cohen blames his career's end on Tennessee's midterm redistricting.

Kelly Jane Torrance
May 15, 2026
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Steve Cohen speaks at the 2023 OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Vancouver, Canada. Photo: Bernard Thibodeau, House of Commons Photo Services

The congressional-redistricting war has claimed another victi…

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