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  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY REPUBLICAN ROW —  The intraparty power struggle between moderate Gov. Charlie Baker and conservative state party Chair Jim Lyons is blowing up again, this time over auditor nominee Anthony Amore. Three dozen members of the MassGOP state committee  — just shy of a majority — sent a letter to Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel last week imploring her to make Lyons “end his efforts to defeat our leading Republican candidate for statewide office, Anthony Amore,” according to a copy shared with Playbook and  other outlets . The letter-writers charge that Lyons allowed  the MassGOP’s Veterans Coalition and at least one town committee run by one of his allies to not endorse Amore —  because of his ties to Baker  — and has "looked the other way" as some Republicans encourage others to blank their ballot in the auditor’s race. There’s also  a dust-up   over Amore being left off  the...

  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY Presented by UPS ‘FOOD OUGHT TO BE A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT’ —  Rep. Jim McGovern believes that ending hunger can be a political unifier in a partisan era. Even still, it took him months of organizing with anti-hunger groups and pushing for buy-in from the Biden administration to get to where we are today: the first  White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health   in more than five decades. The Biden administration has a plan to end hunger by 2030  through  executive actions and policies   that include expanding access to federal nutrition assistance programs, getting the FDA to roll out voluntary nutrition guidance and increasing the number of students who can get free school meals. Some of those policies would require action from Congress — where extending school meal programs is already a fight, and where Democrats could lose control of one or both chambers in the midterms, complicating the...