GOP Rep. Mike Lawler rejects 10% cap on credit card interest rates
The cap is supported by President Donald Trump and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
By Jesse Valentine - January 15, 2026
The cap is supported by President Donald Trump and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
By Jesse Valentine - January 15, 2026
The CBO warns 100,000 Americans could become uninsured under the proposal.
By Jesse Valentine - January 14, 2026
This would force women into aggressive surgeries or hours of unnecessary labor instead of their doctors utilizing standard and safe D&C (dilation and curettage) or D&E (dilation and evacuation) procedures.
By Bonnie Fuller - January 13, 2026
Plus a new campaign ad out of Pennsylvania.
By Jesse Valentine - January 12, 2026
Roys is one of several Democrats running for Wisconsin governor in 2026.
By Bonnie Fuller - January 06, 2026
Garrity previously celebrated the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
By Jesse Valentine - December 30, 2025
Electric bills have gone up by 13% since Donald Trump returned to the White House
By Jesse Valentine - December 23, 2025
Nearly a half million Michiganders will pay higher insurance premiums in 2026.
By Jesse Valentine - December 17, 2025
Chrysa Ostenso of Ladysmith, WI says her health insurance premiums are expected to jump by $1,500 a month.
By Jesse Valentine - December 16, 2025
Mary (not her real name) tells her story to Bonnie Fuller for COURIER Texas.
By Bonnie Fuller - December 11, 2025
DOGE axed an $8.4 million initiative to help homeless children in Nevada.
By Jesse Valentine - December 10, 2025
Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell gave Donald Trump a $6 billion gift.
By Jesse Valentine - December 09, 2025
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
Despite the administration’s insistence to the contrary, the newest Gallup Poll shows that Donald Trump, less than one month into his term in office, has earned a profoundly and singularly negative reputation. With an approval rating of only 41 percent, Trump is bested by any president in recent history: Barack Obama started out with a […]
By Erin Reed - February 11, 2017
A federal court has ordered that North Carolina’s heavily gerrymandered state districts be redrawn and that the state must hold new primaries for state-level representatives in September 2017 followed by a general election in November 2017. The case, Covington vs. the State of North Carolina, argued that race-based districting — like that in North Carolina, where […]
By Erin Reed - December 07, 2016
Some of the biggest surprises on Election Day were Donald Trump’s victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, the so-called “blue wall” that Trump won by narrow margins. The margins were so narrow, in fact, that Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, had more votes in each of the three states than the margin between Trump and […]
By Erin Reed - December 06, 2016
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and six other members of the Intelligence Committee have released a letter asking President Obama to declassify information related to Russia and the U.S. election. The body of the letter, dated November 29, reads: We believe there is additional information concerning the Russian Government and the U.S. election that should be […]
By Erin Reed - December 01, 2016
Donald Trump may have made a big show on Twitter of leaving his “great business” to avoid the conflicts of interest that have been hounding him since the election, but if he stubbornly refuses to fully divest himself of his business interests, his holdings will continue to create the risk of Constitutional violations. NPR has reported […]
By Erin Reed - November 30, 2016
Much has been written attributing Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory to his resonating appeal to white working class voters. His win is accurately owed to a confluence of factors, but insofar as his outreach to disaffected Rust Belt voters was a contributing element, he won many of their votes by a colossal hoodwinking. Their suffering […]
By Erin Reed - November 28, 2016
Throughout his time his in office, President Obama has attacked the issue of mass incarceration from many angles, and has successfully reduced the rates after nearly five decades of rising numbers: [media-credit name=”The Sentencing Project” link=”http://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts/” align=”aligncenter” width=”617″][/media-credit] How did Obama accomplish this, and what will happen to the policies that have achieved this success […]
By Erin Reed - November 23, 2016
Here is our Senate projection with less than three weeks until Election Day: Significant Senate races to watch: ILLINOIS: Probability of Democratic win: 90% — U.S. Representative Tammy Duckworth (D), an Iraq war veteran, is leading against incumbent U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R), a former congressman, lawyer, and a retired member of the U.S. Naval Reserve. WISCONSIN: […]
By Erin Reed - October 21, 2016
The media want a horse race, so a new Bloomberg Politics poll of likely voters in Ohio, showing Trump with a 5-point lead over Hillary Clinton, is getting a lot of attention. However, as with any individual poll, this is just a snapshot of one moment in time. The average over time still shows Clinton with […]
By Erin Reed - September 14, 2016
Below, a graphic showing the various possible paths for Democrats to reclaim the Senate majority: [media-credit id=5 align=”aligncenter” width=”1024″][/media-credit] If Hillary Clinton wins, Democrats need a minimum of five seats to control the Senate, with Vice President Tim Kaine’s vote as the tiebreaker. This includes defending Harry Reid’s Nevada seat. If Trump wins, Democrats need a […]
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