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Jan 2020
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‘I have a voice and I need to try to use...

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Kathryn Murdoch opens up about her famous Fox News-owning in-laws, the existential threat of climate change, why politics is so broken — and why she plans on spending $100 million to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 
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