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The final article from our June issue is @emily_bech's "Does Race-Baiting Split Latino and White Americans? Racial Political Speech, Political Trust and the Importance of White Identity" link.springer.com/article/10…

Read "The Relationship Between Social Media Use and Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation" by Adam Enders, @JoeUscinski, Michelle Seelig, @klofstad, Stefan Wuchty, John Funchion, Manohar Murthi, Kamal Premaratne, and @justinstoler! link.springer.com/article/10…

Read "Threatened by the Worst but Hoping for the Best: Unraveling the Relationship Between Threat, Hope, and Public Opinion During Conflict" by @adomi101 and @eranh75_eran! link.springer.com/article/10…

Check out "Cued by Culture: Political Imagery and Partisan Evaluations" by @danhrice, @FabianNeuner, and @s_soroka from our June issue! link.springer.com/article/10…

Read "Big Boys Don’t Cry: Evaluations of Politicians Across Issue, Gender, and Emotion" by @KristynLKarl and @DCInbox from our June issue! link.springer.com/article/10…

Read @ZingherPolisci's "How Social Group Memberships Interact to Shape Partisanship, Policy Orientations, and Vote Choice" from our June issue! link.springer.com/article/10…

Check out @jschultecloos and Paul Bauer's open access article "Local Candidates, Place-Based Identities, and Electoral Success" here! link.springer.com/article/10…

@AlperTBulut1 and @tmyildirim's "Elite Influence on Attitudes About Gender Egalitarianism: Evidence from a Population-Based Survey Experiment" is published in our June issue! link.springer.com/article/10…