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April Corbin Girnus is an award-winning journalist and deputy editor of Nevada Current. A stickler about municipal boundary lines, April enjoys teaching people about unincorporated Clark County. She grew up in Sunrise Manor and currently resides in Paradise with her husband, three children and one mutt.
Schimel is the Republican-endorsed candidate in the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
By Jesse Valentine - March 04, 2025
Bacon was reelected by less than 6000 votes. Approximately 78,000 of his constituents receive Medicaid.
By - February 28, 2025
Dr. Oz’s business associates could benefit from the change.
By Jesse Valentine - February 27, 2025
Circuit Judge Crawford and former Republican state Attorney General Brad Schimel are running in the April 1 general election for an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
By Josh Israel - February 24, 2025
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters praised Trump for picking a Labor Secretary who co-sponsored the pro-union legislation.
By Jesse Valentine - February 20, 2025
Ciattarelli supports President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
By Jesse Valentine - February 19, 2025
The funds were given to the city for the express purpose of connecting migrants with aid, shelter, and basic medical care.
By Jesse Valentine - February 18, 2025
McMahon, the co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, contributed $15 million to Trump’s reelection campaign.
By - February 13, 2025
Despite pledging never to prejudge cases, the former Republican Wisconsin attorney general has indicated his commitment to upholding the state’s restrictions on labor unions.
By Josh Israel - February 11, 2025
Marko Elez allegedly said “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”
By Jesse Valentine - February 10, 2025
The Fraternal Order of Police, which endorsed Trump in 2024, says the Jan. 6 pardons threaten public safety.
By Jesse Valentine - February 05, 2025
Several Texas doctors spoke to Courier Texas about how the state’s abortion bans are preventing them from properly providing health care.
By Bonnie Fuller - February 04, 2025
More than 72 million Americans receive health insurance through Medicaid.
By Jesse Valentine - January 30, 2025
Trump pledged to not “play around” with Medicaid during his 2024 campaign.
By Jesse Valentine - January 24, 2025
The Texas abortion ban’s harsh penalties are “terrifying” doctors, leading to women dying from miscarriages.
By Bonnie Fuller - January 23, 2025
Trump pardoned violent criminals, despite several Trump allies promising he wouldn’t.
By Jesse Valentine - January 23, 2025
Lawsuits currently pending in Minnesota, Georgia, and North Carolina have the potential to disenfranchise thousands of voters.
By Jesse Valentine - January 23, 2025
ASEAN is arguably the most important political and economic partnership in the Indo-Pacific
By Jesse Valentine - January 15, 2025
The FEC prohibits the use of campaign funds for personal attire.
By Jesse Valentine - January 14, 2025
Tens of thousands of Californians have been displaced by recent wildfires.
By Jesse Valentine - January 09, 2025
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown has long championed the cause of increasing Social Security benefits for public workers.
By Jesse Valentine - January 07, 2025
Thune flip-flopped three times on providing care to veterans exposed to toxic substances.
By Jesse Valentine - December 30, 2024
The Montana Democrat consistently ranked as one of the most effective lawmakers in Congress during his 18 years in the US Senate.
By Josh Israel - December 30, 2024
More than 1 million veterans across the United States have had PACT Act claims approved.
By Oliver Willis - December 30, 2024
The Montana Democrat consistently ranked as one of the most effective lawmakers in Congress during his 18 years in the US Senate.
By Josh Israel - December 30, 2024
A $600,000 federal grant will help state and local officials work to prevent veteran suicide.
By Anna Gustafson - December 30, 2024
Currently, veterans are only eligible for IVF coverage through the Department of Defense if they have a service-connected injury or illness that prevents them from conceiving.
By Emily Singer - December 30, 2024
Lombardo’s involvement in downballot races was unusual for a sitting governor.
By Jesse Valentine - December 12, 2024
Several of Trump’s cabinet picks have worked to undermine workers’ rights.
By Jesse Valentine - November 26, 2024
Ken Paxton has been accused of corruption, bribery, and self-dealing
By Jesse Valentine - November 13, 2024
Every seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives is up for election this year.
By Jesse Valentine - November 04, 2024
The Michigan Supreme Court overturned a Republican attempt to gut a paid sick leave law.
By Jesse Valentine - November 01, 2024
I was 17 when I found out that I was pregnant and was already about 8 weeks along. I was so overwhelmed because I had no idea of what my options were going to be, and I was afraid. I was well aware that I wouldn’t be able to access an abortion in Texas. The […]
By Bonnie Fuller - October 31, 2024
Hogan refused to sign a state law that banned price gouging by drugmakers.
By Jesse Valentine - October 30, 2024
Chavez-DeRemer represents Oregon’s 5th district despite living in District 3.
By Jesse Valentine - October 30, 2024
More than half of Ohio’s child care funding comes from a federal program.
By Jesse Valentine - October 30, 2024
Collins has a history of incendiary and offensive social media posts.
By Jesse Valentine - October 28, 2024
The partisan split in the Michigan House of Representatives will be decided in the Nov. 5 election.
By Jesse Valentine - October 28, 2024
Ayotte voted on multiple occasions to cut financial aid for low-income students.
By Jesse Valentine - October 23, 2024
Some pro-voucher lawmakers pushed for the Bible to be taught in elementary schools.
By Jesse Valentine - October 23, 2024
Critics of school choice say it diverts funds away from public schools to private institutions.
By Jesse Valentine - October 22, 2024
Beckwith pledged to defund Planned Parenthood “not only in Indiana, but across the country.”
By Jesse Valentine - October 16, 2024
Scott is being accused of using military members for political gain.
By Jesse Valentine - October 15, 2024
Bishop opposed a bill that could’ve helped missing person investigations in his own district.
By Jesse Valentine - October 08, 2024
Bresnahan’s net worth is estimated to be up to $69 million.
By Jesse Valentine - October 07, 2024
Senate candidate’s claims of tapes being ‘chopped’ debunked
By Darrell Ehrlick, Daily Montanan - October 04, 2024
The groups claim Rosen is guilty of insider trading, an offense she has never committed or been investigated for.
By Jesse Valentine - October 04, 2024
Moreno was appointed to the MetroHealth board by a CEO who was later fired for malfeasance.
By Jesse Valentine - October 01, 2024
Doctors have warned that American women will die as a result of Trump's state abortion bans - now they have.
By Bonnie Fuller - September 23, 2024
Dave McCormick has described Iran as “our sworn enemy” and the “underwriter of terror across the Middle East.”
By Jesse Valentine - September 18, 2024
More than 700,000 veterans in Virginia could lose their health insurance under the plan.
By Jesse Valentine - September 18, 2024
Hovde has touted his work with assisted living facilities as an asset on the campaign trail.
By Jesse Valentine - September 18, 2024
Montanas could vote to add a right to abortion access to their state constitution.
By Jesse Valentine - September 13, 2024
Ayotte voted at least nine times to repeal Obamacare
By Jesse Valentine - September 04, 2024
Buckhout said President Joe Biden should be impeached for not being tougher on China.
By Jesse Valentine - August 23, 2024
Scott travels almost exclusively on a private jet.
By Jesse Valentine - August 21, 2024
Moreno says extending Trump’s tax cuts would lessen the national debt. It won’t.
By Jesse Valentine - August 21, 2024
In July, 3,793 Mainers registered to vote, which was higher than every month since the 2023 November election.
By Emma Davis, Maine Morning Star - August 14, 2024
Disinformation about foreign investments has engulfed the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania.
By Jesse Valentine - August 14, 2024
Hovde is running for the U.S. Senate on a platform that emphasizes economic opportunity.
By Jesse Valentine - August 13, 2024
As Secretary of the Interior, Zinke spent $12,000 on a private jet from Las Vegas to Montana.
By Jesse Valentine - August 12, 2024
Bresnahan has contributed thousands of dollars to anti-abortion candidates
By Jesse Valentine - August 06, 2024
Gianforte criticized the Biden administration for giving temporary work status to Venezuelan asylum seekers.
By Jesse Valentine - August 05, 2024
Calvert has cast several votes seeking to curtail abortion access throughout his 30 years in Congress.
By Jesse Valentine - July 29, 2024
Ayotte has endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign
By Jesse Valentine - July 26, 2024
Former Pres. Donald Trump needs to discard his storied penchant for racist and sexist tropes and nicknames if he wants to win over independent voters in his likely race against Vice Pres. Kamala Harris, say political experts in Nevada, one of a handful of battleground states.
By Dana Gentry, Nevada Current - July 24, 2024
Cruz’s Democratic opponent says he is the “architect” of the state’s prohibitive abortion laws.
By Jesse Valentine - July 23, 2024
Bridger Aerospace is being sued by two former employees for breach of contract.
By Jesse Valentine - July 22, 2024
Brown’s race for U.S. Senate could decide which party controls congress in 2025.
By Jesse Valentine - July 09, 2024
Domenici is one of several Republican U.S. Senate candidates who has been scrutinized for owning properties in multiple states.
By Jesse Valentine - July 08, 2024
Robinson said feminism has created a generation of weak minded men.
By Jesse Valentine - July 03, 2024
Ayotte has repeatedly backed reforms to Medicare and Social Security that would result in less Americans getting the support they need.
By Jesse Valentine - July 02, 2024
Paxton’s close relationship with the Texas Public Policy Foundation dates back to 2015.
By Jesse Valentine - June 24, 2024
Cruz’s podcast is the subject of an FEC complaint claiming its ad revenue structure violated campaign finance law
By Jesse Valentine - June 11, 2024
Lake’s budget proposal could imperil border security, which Lake often cites as one of her top priorities.
By Jesse Valentine - June 10, 2024
Cao supported a claim that diversity and inclusion initiatives caused the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
By Jesse Valentine - June 06, 2024
Moreno is one of multiple Republican U.S. Senate candidates to exaggerate their background.
By Jesse Valentine - May 24, 2024
Voters in several states will likely have the chance to reverse their states’ abortion bans this November — but the election results could come too late for clinics that have been forced to scale back or even shut down while those bans were in effect.
By Chabeli Carrazana and Shefali Luthra - May 22, 2024
When Ayotte worked with Caterpillar Inc. the company offshored over 2,000 jobs.
By Jesse Valentine - May 21, 2024
Medical residencies are key for getting doctors to practice in states, and declines can contribute to shortages.
By Alander Rocha, Alabama Reflector - May 21, 2024
Texas Rep. Monica De La Cruz celebrated a police funding initiative that her caucus now wants to eliminate.
By Jesse Valentine - May 16, 2024
Robinson said science education should be taken out of elementary schools
By Jesse Valentine - May 16, 2024
The Republic Pregnancy Resource Center website provides step-by-step directions from local middle and high schools to their address.
By Jesse Valentine - May 14, 2024
Brown has called for abolishing the U.S. Department of Education.
By Jesse Valentine - May 09, 2024
Luna supports abortions bans with no exceptions for rape
By Jesse Valentine - May 07, 2024
Donald Trump is planning to release more details in the weeks ahead about how his administration would regulate access to medication abortion, according to comments he made during a lengthy interview with Time magazine published Tuesday.
By Jennifer Shutt, States Newsroom - April 30, 2024
Dobson is the Republican candidate in what will be one of the most-watched House races of 2024.
By Jesse Valentine - April 30, 2024
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s claim to not know about the millions an Akron utility spent supporting his 2018 campaign for governor simply isn’t credible, an Ohio political scientist said in a recent interview. A spokesperson for DeWine pushed back. FirstEnergy provided that support, then spent more than $60 million to pass and protect a $1.3 billion ratepayer-financed […]
By Marty Schladen, Ohio Capital Journal - April 29, 2024
Hate crimes in the United States rose from 2022 to 2023.
By Jesse Valentine - April 15, 2024
Cao is a former U.S Navy captain.
By Jesse Valentine - March 29, 2024
Kiggans has flirted with baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
By Jesse Valentine - March 08, 2024
Ohio voted to protect abortion rights. GOP senate candidate Bernie Moreno doesn't care.
By Jesse Valentine - March 07, 2024
Syngenta AG owns approximately 1500 acres of U.S farmland.
By Jesse Valentine - March 04, 2024
Hovde is running for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin despite primarily residing in California.
By Jesse Valentine - February 26, 2024
McCormick says we need leaders with the moral clarity to condemn antisemitism.
By Jesse Valentine - February 09, 2024
Of the nearly dozen gun bills lawmakers will soon take up, one is particularly noteworthy because it’s backed by unlikely allies: mental health advocates and a pair of House members who’ve long been at opposite ends of firearm legislation.
By Annmarie Timmins, New Hampshire Bulletin - January 31, 2024
The United Auto Workers of America endorsed the re-election of President Joe Biden Wednesday, just months after he became the first sitting U.S. president to walk a picket line with striking autoworkers in Michigan.
By Ashley Murray, States Newsroom - January 24, 2024
Gunter has repeatedly referred to Brown as “Scam Brown”
By Jesse Valentine - January 17, 2024
The state of Texas robbed Amanda Zurawski of her fertility and almost her life when it wouldn’t permit her an abortion so she’s gone to the state’s Supreme Court to change the law - “this is why I’m on earth”
By Bonnie Fuller - January 10, 2024
Health care-focused organizations across the state are hopeful that the 2024 legislative session will be a year that reins in health costs and allows patients to have greater access to the care they need.
By Danielle J. Brown, Maryland Matters - January 08, 2024
Five people died on January 6, 2021 – including a police officer who was bludgeoned to death.
By Jesse Valentine - January 05, 2024
On Wednesday, the New Hampshire House passed a bill that would make registering to vote an online experience.
By Ethan DeWitt, New Hampshire Bulletin - January 04, 2024
Most Americans believe wealthy individuals and big corporations don’t pay their fair share in taxes.
By Jesse Valentine - December 22, 2023
Even the Republican senator's home county gave Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear a larger share of the vote than four years earlier.
By - December 15, 2023
Republicans Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton have taken thousands of dollars in donations from chemical companies and their affiliated PACs.
By Jesse Valentine - December 08, 2023
Eric Hovde's proposal is similar to Sen. Rick Scott's unpopular 2022 plan to make every American pay income taxes.
By Jesse Valentine - December 07, 2023
A bipartisan package of bills in Michigan signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, creates specified criminal penalties for assaulting health care workers.
By Anna Liz Nichols, Michigan Advance - December 06, 2023
Both former President Donald Trump and former U.S. Rep. George Santos have lied about their records and been accused of defrauding veterans.
By Jesse Valentine - December 05, 2023
Millions of Texas families’ health and well-being would be jeopardized if the legislation were repealed.
By Jesse Valentine - December 04, 2023
More than 3 million Floridians will lose their health insurance if Scott and Trump succeed.
By Jesse Valentine - November 30, 2023
Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.
By Jesse Valentine - November 06, 2023
The Republican gubernatorial nominee also broke his promises to make the office more frugal.
By Jesse Valentine - November 03, 2023
It might not surprise Mississippians that The Cook Political Report, regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent elections experts, shifted their 2023 Mississippi governor’s race forecast on Monday in Democrat Brandon Presley’s direction.
By Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today - October 24, 2023
Because of the way state-level abortion protections were established in Nevada, abortion law is largely shielded from meddling by state lawmakers.
By April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Current - September 26, 2024
Democrats nationwide are attempting to make former President Donald Trump synonymous with Project 2025, an expansive plan to reconstruct the federal government under a Republican administration. And that narrative is trickling down to the Nevada Senate race.
By April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Current - August 22, 2024
The Nevada Senate Republican Caucus-backed candidate hoping to unseat Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro describes herself on her website as having “a pragmatic and results-oriented approach” but has previously identified herself as a member of a right-wing Christian organization.
By April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Current - May 20, 2024
With a primary win all but inevitable, President Joe Biden used his Sunday appearance in Las Vegas’s Historic Westside to rally his most vocal supporters in a battleground state that delivered for him four years ago.
By April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Current - February 05, 2024