Political reporter and producer, previously with NBC News' White House team, MSNBC's legal unit, and Vox, among others. Follow him on Twitter @gardenswartzj.
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
A new poll finds Americans are largely critical of objections to COVID-19 vaccines on religious grounds. But among the unvaccinated, the practice remains popular.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - December 13, 2021
The Democrats’ social spending package would invest $1 billion in medical and nursing school programs and would support medical students from underrepresented communities.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - December 08, 2021
Dr. Kevin Baumlin, who is also running for Senate in Pennsylvania, said Oz’s past comments on COVID-19 are ‘offensive and borderline malpractice.’
By Jacob Gardenswartz - December 02, 2021
The new COVID strain is ’cause for concern, not a cause for panic,’ President Joe Biden said Monday.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 30, 2021
The American Independent Foundation asked every major candidate running for U.S. Senate in 2022 about their COVID-19 vaccination status.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 23, 2021
The Wisconsin GOP senator also spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines in a recent speech.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 19, 2021
Lawmakers promised to explore solutions to online COVID scams and online misinformation. But Republicans on the subcommittee had other plans.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 18, 2021
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) joined 35 House Democrats in asking the president to impose vaccine restrictions ahead of the holiday season, as polls show a majority of Americans would support the policy.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 12, 2021
Advocates called the ruling a victory for students with disabilities and noted it could have implications beyond the Lone Star State.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 11, 2021
A new survey finds that wide swaths of the American public believe vaccine conspiracies repeated by Fox News, Newsmax, and other right-wing outlets.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 10, 2021
Voters who expressed concern about the pandemic overwhelmingly backed Democrat Terry McAuliffe. But most voters had other priorities.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 03, 2021
A new CDC study shows unvaccinated Americans who previously had COVID-19 were five times more likely to get it again than their fully vaccinated peers.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 01, 2021
The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission said Monday that employers can deny religious exemption requests if granting accommodations would impose an ‘undue burden’ on their businesses.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 26, 2021
After ending pandemic-related unemployment benefits, some Republican officials now want assistance for workers who were fired for refusing to get vaccinated.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 25, 2021
Congressional investigators found the program funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to unqualified firms while Trump used it to promote his political ambitions.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 19, 2021
Unvaccinated Americans are 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than their vaccinated peers, recent CDC data shows.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 18, 2021
Some claim the Republican governor’s actions are more about politics than public health.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 13, 2021
The Treasury Department warned Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey about the state’s use of COVID relief funding.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 06, 2021
Three lawsuits filed by the EEOC could mean a ‘new world’ for workplace protections, experts say.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 04, 2021
Recent research from the CDC shows getting vaccinated provides twice as much protection against the virus as getting infected ‘naturally’ does.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - September 30, 2021
Millions of Americans now qualify for a COVID-19 vaccine booster.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - September 27, 2021
‘In America: Remember’ honors the 676,000 Americans who’ve died of COVID-19 with a public art installation on the National Mall.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - September 21, 2021
New Hampshire Republicans say they’re stalling approval of funding in protest of President Joe Biden’s new vaccine mandates, among other complaints.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - September 20, 2021
Ongoing debates about school mask mandates miss a crucial component: student input.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - September 15, 2021
‘It is likely that we’ll see the numbers of maternal death growing as a result of the extremely restrictive abortion climate,’ said the lead author of a recent study.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - September 08, 2021
As students return to the classroom amid a delta variant surge, one D.C. dad is manufacturing DIY air-filtration cubes — and wants others to do the same.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - August 31, 2021
Both Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Republican challengers have made the pandemic central to their election arguments.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - August 27, 2021
U.S. officials now say most Americans should get a third COVID-19 vaccine shot. Experts worry about the rest of the world.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - August 18, 2021
As more employers impose vaccine mandates, a legal showdown over religious exemptions could be brewing, experts say.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - August 18, 2021
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) continues to make false claims about the effectiveness of masks against COVID spread.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - August 10, 2021