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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
Don’t be fooled by his North Korea summit. Trump is still bringing the world closer to a nuclear crisis.
By Bernie Dennler III - December 28, 2018
Lock her up?
By Bernie Dennler III - November 19, 2018
Bob Stefanowski thinks strong gun laws are ‘a bad thing.’
By Bernie Dennler III - November 05, 2018
David Wolkinson just told Michigan firefighters, police, auto industry workers, and teachers why they should support his Democratic opponent for state legislature instead of him.
By Bernie Dennler III - October 28, 2018
Just months after the secretive Helsinki meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Trump says the United States will abandon a Reagan-era treaty designed to prevent nuclear war.
By Bernie Dennler III - October 22, 2018
Minnesota state Rep. Sarah Anderson of House District 44A likes to talk about standing up for families, but her voting record tells a different story.
By Bernie Dennler III - October 21, 2018
Republican State Rep. Dale Kooyenga’s chances of winning a state senate seat could be complicated by videos from his 2015 budget speech.
By Bernie Dennler III - October 17, 2018
Rep. Ron DeSantis’ racist comments are not keeping wealthy conservative donors away from his Florida campaign for governor.
By Bernie Dennler III - October 15, 2018
Children are being rounded up in the dead of night and sent to a huge Texas tent city, where they have no access to education and few legal protections.
By Bernie Dennler III - October 01, 2018
Tens of thousands of people could end up stuck in the Trump administration’s border detention centers because of Jeff Sessions.
By Bernie Dennler III - September 21, 2018
Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) is slamming a veterans group for an ad supporting his opponent Amy McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot.
By Bernie Dennler III - September 18, 2018
New York ‘Democrats’ who enabled Republicans are refusing to return money the state says was raised illegally.
By Bernie Dennler III - September 12, 2018
New York state Sen. Jeff Klein’s newfound ‘support’ for the New York Health Act doesn’t mean much after he helped to make sure it never got a vote.
By Bernie Dennler III - September 11, 2018
Ted Cruz has a likability problem — and his embarrassing stereotypes of Texans aren’t helping.
By Bernie Dennler III - September 10, 2018
Members of a rogue group of elected Democrats in New York got special bonuses for betraying their party.
By Bernie Dennler III - September 07, 2018
New York Democrats who collaborated with the state GOP are hoping primary voters will look past their devil’s bargain with the Republicans.
By Bernie Dennler III - September 05, 2018
Sunday’s 200+ protests may have been the largest demonstration against a Supreme Court nominee in history.
By Bernie Dennler III - August 27, 2018
Trump administration officials are still pretending that North Korea agreed to surrender its nuclear weapons. That’s incredibly dangerous.
By Bernie Dennler III - August 23, 2018
Walker’s rampant corruption is coming back to haunt him as his former aides campaign for his opponent.
By Bernie Dennler III - August 21, 2018
Ted Cruz is panicking about his re-election campaign — and he’s only making things worse for himself.
By Bernie Dennler III - August 14, 2018