trudge

“Under a Harris administration, it would trudge along. They’re still finding these piecemeal ways to go about it.”

The rain is incessant as we trudge past the trees and through the long grass and into their habitat.

As people in Hammanskraal trudge up to the water tank to get their share, the road is littered with election posters.

When members of Congress return to Washington from their home districts, they often trudge to Capitol Hill for a tally known as a “bed check,” a low-stakes vote series that is mostly aimed at taking attendance.

Though I turned my pain into purpose as the president of the anti-gun-violence group Brady California, I trudge through every day with unanswered questions, one of which echoes the loudest: Who killed my son?