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One of our biggest pet peeves at On Politics is the way stories often seem to fade away, without any follow-up. With that in mind, we wanted to update you on some of the stories we covered this month.

• We brought you the story of Júlia Quintanilla, a contract employee cleaning federal government buildings, who worried about how she would pay her bills — or even afford groceries — during the government shutdown. The government has reopened, but Ms. Quintanilla’s fight isn’t over. Democratic lawmakers in the Senate are pushing a bill that would ensure low-wage workers get back pay. So far, the legislation has failed to attract any Republican co-sponsors.

• Since we wrote about the former Starbucks C.E.O. Howard Schultz’s difficult path to the presidency, his troubles have gone from tall to venti. Over the past three days, it has come out that Mr. Schultz has voted in just 11 of the past 38 elections. He doesn’t know the price of a box of Cheerios, the country’s No. 1-selling breakfast cereal. And he was heckled at a book event in New York City, with another protest planned tonight in his hometown, Seattle.

• Before President Trump agreed to end the government shutdown last Friday, we wrote about how damaging the situation had become for his political standing. On Tuesday, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that a whopping 56 percent of Americans said they would definitely not vote for him in 2020. (Don’t count him out yet, though. We are still two years away from any ballots being cast.)

• For our first newsletter of 2019, we wrote about the “likability” question that plagues female politicians — most recently Senator Elizabeth Warren. Since then, two other female senators have entered the 2020 race. The first question Kirsten Gillibrand received at her first news conference: Is she too nice? Sigh.

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