Feminist, journalist, consent education and mental health advocate. Former interim letters editor/editorialist at the San Antonio Express-News and staff writer for the Watertown Daily Times and Kerrville Daily Times. Follow her on Twitter @DonnaProvencher.
The Sununu family has long been scrutinized for mixing business and politics.
By Jesse Valentine - August 19, 2026
Thomas Limehouse pleaded guilty and served a 20-month prison sentence.
By Jesse Valentine - August 18, 2026
Harvey West says North Carolina Republicans knew about his criminal record.
By Jesse Valentine - August 18, 2026
Nearly all of Begich’s 150 employees worked overseas.
By Jesse Valentine - August 17, 2026
Rogers consistently voted to advance oil and gas interests in Congress.
By Jesse Valentine - August 14, 2026
Policy experts say privatization would threaten the long-term solvency of the program.
By Jesse Valentine - August 13, 2026
Timko says his small business record qualifies him to hold public office.
By Jesse Valentine - August 13, 2026
She was absent for crucial committee decisions on AI child porn, crime, and health care.
By Jesse Valentine - August 13, 2026
Such a change could make mortgages more expensive and home loans harder to come by.
By Jesse Valentine - August 12, 2026
A devastated Texas dad says his wife’s death after a miscarriage was preventable—and that the state’s abortion ban helped create the dangerous “gray area” that kept doctors from giving her the care she needed.
By Bonnie Fuller - August 12, 2026
The programs provide health insurance to 123 million people.
By Jesse Valentine - August 12, 2026
Shea said struggling Americans are “impatient.”
By Jesse Valentine - August 11, 2026
Sununu’s net worth is $36.3 million.
By Jesse Valentine - August 10, 2026
Consumers' water bill could go up as a result.
By Jesse Valentine - August 06, 2026
A recent Gallup poll found that Americans’ ability to afford health care is at a five-year low.
By Jesse Valentine - August 04, 2026
Turek did not support voting rights for undocumented immigrants.
By Jesse Valentine - August 04, 2026
Ollivant is challenging incumbent Rep. Eugene Vindman.
By Jesse Valentine - August 03, 2026
Using insider knowledge to game the crypto or stock markets can be illegal.
By Jesse Valentine - August 03, 2026
Jessica Alexander also made offensive remarks about the LGBTQ community.
By Jesse Valentine - July 31, 2026
Husted gutted a bill intend to help survivors abused by Catholic priests.
By Jesse Valentine - July 31, 2026
The Life at Conception Act could jeopardize access to in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments
By Jesse Valentine - July 30, 2026
Agriculture is the economic driver of Finstad’s district.
By Jesse Valentine - July 29, 2026
A recent poll shows Mendoza leading Ciscomani by two points.
By Jesse Valentine - July 27, 2026
Michael Whatley once praised Roy Cooper for cutting taxes in North Carolina.
By Jesse Valentine - July 24, 2026
Columbia University says Azerbaijan engaged in torture, mutilations, and beheadings.
By Jesse Valentine - July 22, 2026
Trone Garriott is in a neck-and-neck race with Iowa Rep. Zach Nunn.
By Jesse Valentine - July 21, 2026
New Hampshire millionaires gave $50,000 to a group supporting Bennett. They also gave $15,000 to the Maine Republican Party.
By Jesse Valentine - July 20, 2026
Blanche agrees in his confirmation hearing to review using the 1873 Comstock Act to stop mifepristone from being sent to pregnant women by mail
By Bonnie Fuller - July 20, 2026
33,000 Mainers are at risk of losing their health insurance.
By Jesse Valentine - July 17, 2026
The scandal took down DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
By Jesse Valentine - July 16, 2026
Federal law blocks undocumented immigrants from receiving Medicaid, SNAP, and other government services.
By Jesse Valentine - July 15, 2026
The votes concerned defense spending and national security.
By Jesse Valentine - July 14, 2026
Rogers may be receiving income from a federal pension as well.
By Jesse Valentine - July 13, 2026
Driscoll is the Republican candidate in NY-04.
By Jesse Valentine - July 13, 2026
Calla Hales is carrying on a family legacy by providing abortion care for women across the South.
By Bonnie Fuller - July 09, 2026
Whatley is the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in North Carolina.
By Jesse Valentine - July 09, 2026
James is running for Michigan governor.
By Jesse Valentine - July 08, 2026
A June poll showed Flint and Democrat Sam Forstag locked in a dead heat.
By Jesse Valentine - July 07, 2026
Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff has criticized Collins’ alleged self-enrichment.
By Jesse Valentine - July 07, 2026
Biggs broke down crying while discussing his opposition to reproductive rights.
By Jesse Valentine - July 06, 2026
One of the deleted webpages detailed Huizenga’s anti-abortion views.
By Jesse Valentine - July 01, 2026
The Paycheck Fairness Act in fact protects women from gender-based pay discrimination.
By Donna Provencher - April 15, 2021
So much for being the ‘workers’ party.’
By Donna Provencher - April 15, 2021
But it only offers a fraction of the benefits President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan does.
By Donna Provencher - April 15, 2021
Studies show Black Americans are far more likely to be shot and killed by police than their white counterparts.
By Donna Provencher - April 14, 2021
A new poll found that two-thirds of Americans support stricter gun control legislation.
By Donna Provencher - April 14, 2021
Biden is proposing a $1 billion increase in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, from which Trump repeatedly tried to slash funds.
By Donna Provencher - April 09, 2021
Experts in higher education say a bill Florida Republicans claim will protect free speech will achieve exactly the opposite effect.
By Donna Provencher - April 09, 2021
The agency’s bargaining power will be restored as anti-union, Trump-era regulations are replaced with more worker-friendly, pre-Trump contract terms.
By Donna Provencher - April 09, 2021
Unemployment claims are up, but Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims are down, indicating the economy is still on the upswing.
By Donna Provencher - April 08, 2021
She’s also voted to strip health care from Americans with preexisting conditions and deny parental leave to federal employees.
By Donna Provencher - April 08, 2021
Fifty-five of America’s biggest companies paid no income tax at all last year.
By Donna Provencher - April 08, 2021
Experts note that a backlog of cases and an unstaffed board are disastrous for whistleblowers and wrongfully fired federal employees.
By Donna Provencher - April 07, 2021
Up to 10 million Americans are still getting their water through lead pipes — and Republicans have refused to do anything about it.
By Donna Provencher - April 06, 2021
Republicans roundly criticized blue states for implementing COVID-19 safety measures early on. A new study shows their economies are in fact recovering faster than those states who failed to do the same.
By Donna Provencher - April 05, 2021
Their claims are full of lies and misleading half-truths about who would be impacted and how President Joe Biden’s proposal works.
By Donna Provencher - April 05, 2021
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said Democrats would have an ‘easy win’ with President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill — if they’d just cut out the two-thirds of it Republicans don’t like.
By Donna Provencher - April 05, 2021
College loan debt has increased racial inequality in the United States.
By Donna Provencher - April 02, 2021
They’re conveniently forgetting that the definition of infrastructure includes energy, water, housing, transportation, and communications systems, too.
By Donna Provencher - April 01, 2021
Donald Trump had long promised to ‘bring back’ American jobs and largely failed. Biden is taking a different route.
By Donna Provencher - April 01, 2021
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) credits Donald Trump with the ‘gift’ of attracting working-class voters to the party.
By Donna Provencher - April 01, 2021
And it’s not the first time Donald Trump’s former trade adviser Peter Navarro is under fire for shady dealings.
By Donna Provencher - March 31, 2021
Every Republican in Congress voted against what an advocate called ‘the most significant expansion of health care in over a decade.’
By Donna Provencher - March 31, 2021
Experts say the time to pass legislation is now, while Democrats have the presidency and a majority in both houses of Congress.
By Donna Provencher - March 30, 2021
It’s not the first time he’s stonewalled infrastructure spending for trumped-up reasons, either.
By Donna Provencher - March 30, 2021
A new poll finds that voters aren’t buying what Republicans are selling.
By Donna Provencher - March 26, 2021
His disregard for the advice of top infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci and others caused the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression.
By Donna Provencher - March 26, 2021
It’s tax season, and the scammers are back.
By Donna Provencher - March 25, 2021
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says, ‘the recovery is far from complete.’
By Donna Provencher - March 25, 2021
‘We should be mindful to protect religious liberty,’ Idaho Rep. Russ Fulcher said.
By Donna Provencher - March 24, 2021
Joe Biden’s plan to give all parents free child care may be met with resistance, but experts say it’s necessary to help families in the long run.
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