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.
Major retailers, including Walmart and Home Depot, say that Trump’s tariff policy is forcing them to raise prices.
By Jesse Valentine - December 03, 2025
Election day is Dec. 2.
By Jesse Valentine - November 26, 2025
Lawler has turned to MAGA extremists and Obamacare opponents for help with his reelection bid.
By Jesse Valentine - November 26, 2025
Turkey prices are up 24% from last year.
By Jesse Valentine - November 25, 2025
Collins is considered the most vulnerable Senate Republican facing reelection next year.
By Jesse Valentine - November 24, 2025
About 888,000 North Carolinians could see their health care premiums double if Obamacare tax credits expire.
By Jesse Valentine - November 21, 2025
Candidates in Iowa and Ohio dismissed the effort as a “hoax” and a political hit
By Jesse Valentine - November 20, 2025
A Yale Law professor described the White House’s actions as “illegal and immoral.”
By Jesse Valentine - November 18, 2025
Plus as ad from South Carolina
By Jesse Valentine - November 14, 2025
More than 60% of Arizonans voted to enshrine a abortion rights into their state constitution.
By Jesse Valentine - November 14, 2025
Abortion may be legal in Wisconsin, but the hurdles still involved forced mom Gracie Ladd, 33, to flee the state anyway.
By Bonnie Fuller - November 13, 2025
3.8 million people could become uninsured next year if the subsidies expire
By Jesse Valentine - November 12, 2025
Ninety-nine percent of House Republicans vote with Trump at least 95% of the time
By Jesse Valentine - November 12, 2025
A whistleblower complaint says Veterans Guardian defrauded veterans and the government.
By Jesse Valentine - November 06, 2025
Remember the viral victory speech with the toddler under the podium? That kid’s mom could be Virginia’s next governor.
By Bonnie Fuller - November 03, 2025
Reid added that he doesn’t want to debate “who was right and who was wrong” in the Civil War
By Jesse Valentine - October 31, 2025
Kennedy has zero concern about reproductive health. Instead, he is enacting Donald Trump's Project 2025 plan to ban abortion pills.
By Bonnie Fuller - October 31, 2025
Ciattarelli’s grandfather immigrated to the United States in 1908 and didn’t become a citizen for 20 years.
By Jesse Valentine - October 31, 2025
Collins is widely considered the most vulnerable Senate Republican up for reelection next year.
By Jesse Valentine - October 28, 2025
Ciattarelli has received more than $10k from a gambling ring operator linked to the Gambino crime family.
By Jesse Valentine - October 27, 2025
Lawler promised to defend contraception access, but is aligned with groups working to restrict it.
By Jesse Valentine - October 22, 2025
The Coast Guard spent $172 million on new private jets for Kristi Noem.
By Jesse Valentine - October 22, 2025
Miyares and his wife made $2.5 million from a family rental company accused of slumlord practices.
By Jesse Valentine - October 16, 2025
Nevada is one of eight states with universal mail-in voting.
By Jesse Valentine - October 15, 2025
Up to 100,000 Iowans are expected to lose health insurance in the months and years ahead.
By Jesse Valentine - October 14, 2025
The owner of Greenlee Consulting has contributed thousands to Barrett’s campaigns.
By Jesse Valentine - October 10, 2025
Wittman’s net worth has more than tripled since joining Congress in 2007.
By Jesse Valentine - October 08, 2025
Miyares pointed to Western European nations with 8-week abortion bans as a model for the U.S.
By Jesse Valentine - October 07, 2025
Donald Trump's wealth has doubled since returning to the presidency. Has yours?
By Jesse Valentine - October 06, 2025
Hollie and Cody Cunningham were excited to grow their family. But two pregnancies that were "incompatible with life" forced them to flee their home in Texas to get the care Hollie needed.
By Bonnie Fuller - October 02, 2025
Reid denies ownership with the blog.
By Jesse Valentine - October 01, 2025
"The biggest issue I hear about in every corner of Virginia has been the issue of affordability."
By Bonnie Fuller - September 25, 2025
Williams has endorsed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which is expected to force 13.7 million Americans to lose their health insurance.
By Jesse Valentine - September 25, 2025
Whatley is already under fire for his embrace of conspiracists and other odious figures.
By Jesse Valentine - September 24, 2025
What will Election Day 2026 look like?
By Jesse Valentine - September 19, 2025
Eric Swalwell advised FCC Chair Brendan Carr to “get a lawyer”
By Jesse Valentine - September 18, 2025
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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