Journalist, former reporter at NJ.com and associate producer at CNN. Follow him on Twitter @j0shaxelrod.
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
43 million Americans will be back on the hook for student loan payments in less than two months unless President Joe Biden takes action.
By Josh Axelrod - March 09, 2022
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is using her interruption of President Joe Biden’s address to collect more campaign funds.
By Josh Axelrod - March 03, 2022
The president’s plan includes expanding access to mental healthcare and cracking down on social media companies that target young children.
By Josh Axelrod - March 02, 2022
A growing chorus of advocates and politicians is calling for Biden to unilaterally cancel the nation’s $1.7 trillion in federal student debt.
By Josh Axelrod - March 01, 2022
President Joe Biden’s stimulus package sent out more than $400 billion in funding to small-business owners to keep them afloat in the first year of his presidency.
By Josh Axelrod - February 22, 2022
Republicans say they want President Joe Biden to rein in fentanyl deaths while criticizing his administration for harm reduction policies that would do just that.
By Josh Axelrod - February 10, 2022
Federal agents seized twice as much fentanyl along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021 compared to 2020.
By Josh Axelrod - February 07, 2022
Republicans whined about last month’s jobs report. Now that the December totals have been revised up, they’ve been silent or dismissive.
By Josh Axelrod - February 04, 2022
The groups are mounting a campaign to pressure Congress to pass President Joe Biden’s landmark social spending plan.
By Josh Axelrod - February 03, 2022
Nevada Republican Jim Marchant is leading a coalition of Trump-backed secretary of state candidates to oversee elections in key 2024 swing states.
By Josh Axelrod - January 31, 2022
The country is seeing faster job growth under President Joe Biden than under the last three Republican presidents combined, according to policy experts.
By Josh Axelrod - January 28, 2022
President Biden is providing 400 million N95 masks to Americans for free, along with one billion COVID-19 rapid tests.
By Josh Axelrod - January 26, 2022
Experts who praised the president’s first year in office say the post-pandemic economic recovery and U.S. foreign relations, among other things, hinge on what he does next.
By Josh Axelrod - January 24, 2022
It didn’t have to be this way.
By Josh Axelrod - January 20, 2022
Fully 60% of voters see expanding voting access in federal elections as an ‘important’ or ‘top’ priority, according to a new poll.
By Josh Axelrod - January 12, 2022
The Biden administration continues its efforts to get children back in the classroom.
By Josh Axelrod - January 11, 2022
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is still spreading election lies a year after he instigated a riot at the U.S. Capitol.
By Josh Axelrod - January 06, 2022
The December jobs report from payroll company ADP surpassed economists’ expectations.
By Josh Axelrod - January 05, 2022
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) referred to Asian Americans as ‘yellow people’ at a recent event.
By Josh Axelrod - December 21, 2021
Former President Donald Trump is once again criticizing American Jews for turning their back on Israel and employing antisemitic tropes he previously accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of using.
By Josh Axelrod - December 17, 2021
Conservatives are using George Soros as a bogeyman once again, this time blaming the Jewish hedge fund billionaire for the rise in crime nationwide.
By Josh Axelrod - December 15, 2021
Fox News personality Lara Logan compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to SS Auschwitz concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele.
By Josh Axelrod - December 02, 2021
Lauren Boebert continues to target Ilhan Omar with anti-Muslim comments. Republicans aren’t stopping her.
By Josh Axelrod - November 30, 2021
Conservatives are blaming George Soros, claiming falsely that the Jewish philanthropist has somehow helped release criminals onto the streets.
By Josh Axelrod - November 23, 2021
The bishops had previously weighed denying communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion rights.
By Josh Axelrod - November 17, 2021
The change will preclude advertisers from targeting users based on race, ethnicity, religion, or political affiliation. Experts are already skeptical of the new policy.
By Josh Axelrod - November 17, 2021
The Arizona congressman tweeted a video Sunday night depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and threatening President Biden with swords.
By Josh Axelrod - November 09, 2021
Muslim Americans won in Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York.
By Josh Axelrod - November 04, 2021
Loudoun County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj has received death threats over her handling of the case.
By Josh Axelrod - November 02, 2021
Cruz attacked Attorney General Merrick Garland for a memo he issued regarding threats of violence directed toward school board officials nationwide over anti-racism training and COVID-19 safety measures.
By Josh Axelrod - October 27, 2021