Writer, editor, feminist. Former staff writer at Vox.com and Rewire, former managing editor at 50 States of Blue. Follow her on Twitter @EmilyCrockett
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
The vast majority of Americans understand that abortion is health care, and health care is not a crime.
By Emily Crockett - May 21, 2019
Even worse, they may not really have been joking.
By Emily Crockett - May 15, 2019
Trump invents an imaginary coup and then brags that he stopped it.
By Emily Crockett - April 26, 2019
The records could prove that Trump committed bank fraud.
By Emily Crockett - April 15, 2019
Team Trump is acting like it’s somehow easier for people to find work if they’re starving.
By Emily Crockett - April 01, 2019
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee blasted Attorney General William Barr for dragging his feet and refusing to share the full, unredacted Mueller report with Congress.
By Emily Crockett - March 29, 2019
Well, that’s embarrassing.
By Emily Crockett - March 28, 2019
Republicans are scrambling to defend their indefensible opposition to the Violence Against Women Act.
By Emily Crockett - March 27, 2019
It’s both pointless and dangerous.
By Emily Crockett - March 26, 2019
A radical new abortion ban puts every pregnant woman in danger.
By Emily Crockett - March 26, 2019
This is some chutzpah from a gang of serial liars like Team Trump.
By Emily Crockett - March 25, 2019
White supremacist Rep. Steve King has outdone himself this time.
By Emily Crockett - March 18, 2019
House Democrats are looking into Ivanka’s record of corruption.
By Emily Crockett - March 13, 2019
They are literally inciting terrorism.
By Emily Crockett - March 03, 2019
Trump tried to argue that Cohen ‘said no collusion with the Russian hoax.’ That’s not what happened.
By Emily Crockett - February 28, 2019
‘He is a racist. He is a conman. And he is a cheat.’
By Emily Crockett - February 27, 2019
He profited off of them when it was convenient for him, and threw them under the bus when it wasn’t.
By Emily Crockett - January 28, 2019
Women hate Trump more than ever, according to new polls.
By Emily Crockett - January 28, 2019
‘Those women and children trying to come here with nothing but the shirts on their back … are acting more in an American tradition than this president is right now.’
By Emily Crockett - January 08, 2019
Trump threw a childish tantrum, while Democratic leaders in Congress showed that they’re the real adults in the room.
By Emily Crockett - December 11, 2018
This is big.
By Emily Crockett - December 07, 2018
It’s a courageous act that puts a well-deserved spotlight on Trump’s racism and hypocrisy toward immigrants.
By Emily Crockett - December 06, 2018
Trump is waging a devastating trade war just to make himself look tough.
By Emily Crockett - December 04, 2018
A scam artist is now acting as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.
By Emily Crockett - December 03, 2018
Trump and Trumpism seem to hold a particular appeal for men who secretly worry that they aren’t manly enough.
By Emily Crockett - November 29, 2018
Like most of Trump’s weird ideas, his latest claim about Finland using rakes to fight fires is a garbled version of something he saw on TV.
By Emily Crockett - November 19, 2018
This is a scandal for anyone who cares about free and fair elections in America.
By Emily Crockett - November 16, 2018
Once again, the Trump administration is ready to sacrifice human health at the altar of anti-science extremism.
By Emily Crockett - November 14, 2018
A major news network is finally going to court over Trump’s war on the First Amendment — and the White House isn’t happy about it.
By Emily Crockett - November 13, 2018
His response to the tragedy was almost too inhuman to be believed.
By Emily Crockett - November 12, 2018