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• Have you followed the Newspack Contributing guideline?
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Changes proposed in this Pull Request:

1205919985867982-as-1208686181349205/f

Checks the key to prevent a backend warning and a javascript fatal.

How to test the changes in this Pull Request:

1. While on the epic branch, delete the theme_mods_newspack-theme option from the db
2. Navigate to Newspack -> Dashboard and confirm the page renders blank with a js error
3. Checkout this branch, refresh the page and confirm the dashboard renders without errors

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• Have you written new tests for your changes, as applicable?
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