Veteran progressive writer for Media Matters and Salon. Two books: "Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over for Bush," and "Bloggers On The Bus." Follow him on Twitter @ericboehlert.
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
Republican Marsha Blackburn’s first concern, after a dozen people were murdered, is protecting unfettered access to guns.
By Eric Boehlert - November 08, 2018
Republicans are desperate to avoid counting mail ballots from voters in urban centers who might help Democrat Kyrsten Sinema win.
By Eric Boehlert - November 08, 2018
Colorado Democrats pulled off the trifecta by flipping the state Senate, and keeping control of the state House and governor’s mansion.
By Eric Boehlert - November 07, 2018
The Democratic Senator from Montana survived Trump’s obsessive attacks.
By Eric Boehlert - November 07, 2018
Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin voters won’t be fooled again.
By Eric Boehlert - November 07, 2018
A widely disliked Trump loyalist was rejected by voters in a deeply red state.
By Eric Boehlert - November 06, 2018
Virginia voters continue to abandon the GOP.
By Eric Boehlert - November 06, 2018
The Wisconsin boondoggle just keeps getting worse.
By Eric Boehlert - November 06, 2018
Trump’s decision to send troops to the border to fight a non-existent threat could be the most expensive campaign season ploy ever.
By Eric Boehlert - November 06, 2018
Don Young’s controversial four-decade career may be coming to a close.
By Eric Boehlert - November 05, 2018
Not even Trump’s favorite propaganda outlet can defend him on this one.
By Eric Boehlert - November 05, 2018
Republicans were excited about Trump’s racism until they realized it could backfire with voters.
By Eric Boehlert - November 05, 2018
The Kansas governor’s race is unfolding as a referendum on Sam Brownback’s disastrous run.
By Eric Boehlert - November 02, 2018
A wave election would be felt far beyond Washington, D.C.
By Eric Boehlert - November 02, 2018
A lot is riding on five local races that could flip the state Senate.
By Eric Boehlert - November 01, 2018
Trump keeps making up stuff about sending troops to the border.
By Eric Boehlert - November 01, 2018
The GOP’s anti-women’s health positions are out of place in a state moving left.
By Eric Boehlert - October 31, 2018
‘I have no words for my anger over this,’ one veteran writes.
By Eric Boehlert - October 31, 2018
Tony Sanchez lobbed an ugly, baseless claim about drug use at his challenger.
By Eric Boehlert - October 30, 2018
The people in Duncan Hunter’s district aren’t fooled by his racist campaign.
By Eric Boehlert - October 30, 2018
He’s ignoring Pittsburgh community leaders who are begging him not to make things worse by visiting.
By Eric Boehlert - October 30, 2018
Even many Kansas Republicans are terrified of what will happen if Kris Kobach becomes their governor.
By Eric Boehlert - October 29, 2018
Trump does his worst to unite a country reeling from right-wing political violence.
By Eric Boehlert - October 29, 2018
Broadband and net neutrality have emerged as key issues in a closely contested campaign.
By Eric Boehlert - October 26, 2018
As the very people Trump regularly attacks are receiving bombs, Trump once again makes it all about how unfair he thinks he’s treated.
By Eric Boehlert - October 26, 2018
Local Democrats are surging while Republicans scramble.
By Eric Boehlert - October 25, 2018
Even the hacks who gave Kobach the idea for his Medicaid policy have no idea what he’s talking about when he says it would save Kansas $2 billion.
By Eric Boehlert - October 25, 2018
The bomb threat hit list looks like a list of Trump’s Most Hated.
By Eric Boehlert - October 25, 2018
Instead of embracing policies that will make their employees’ lives better, big Colorado business interests are wasting piles of cash to try to keep Republicans in power.
By Eric Boehlert - October 24, 2018
Applicants must reveal their party ID, their social media past, and whether they’ve ever written for Breitbart.
By Eric Boehlert - October 24, 2018