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The Declare newsroom brings together investigative reporting and institutional knowledge from reporters who have covered Congress, reform campaigns, elections, and state government for decades.
Chris Deaton · Editor
Chris Deaton is the Editor of Declare. He was a legislative and communications aide to multiple members of Congress, the Managing Editor and later Editor of Red Alert Politics, and Deputy Online Editor of The Weekly Standard, where he covered congressional Republicans, fiscal policy, and healthcare and immigration reform, and was a regular guest on Fox News, CNN, and talk radio.
He is a political and editorial consultant focused on providing underrepresented conservative perspectives to advocacy efforts for government reform.
Miranda Combs · Staff Writer
Miranda Combs is a Staff Writer for Declare. An Emmy- and Murrow Award-winning investigative reporter and news director in Kentucky, Combs began her career with WKYT in Lexington as the station’s crime reporter before breaking from television to join the firm Preston-Osborne, where she led one of its biggest accounts, FACES of Coal. TV called Combs back in 2013, where she was the only investigative reporter-and-anchor combination in the broadcast region. Her work brought home an Emmy Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award, along with several Kentucky Associated Press awards.
In 2020, Combs was made the communications director for the Kentucky secretary of state. She gained special recognition when she helped implement a policy of putting QR codes on the sides of beer cans across the commonwealth, linking them to register to vote. During her time in the secretary’s office, she also helped advocate and pass a law giving adoptive parents the same maternity leave as maternal parents.