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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
For the second time in a year, the Republican Senate majority has threatened a senator from the opposing party for stating truths on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
By Katie Paris - January 21, 2018
Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving Day thanking himself — starting on Twitter at 6:30 a.m, and worse yet, in a video conference with U.S. troops deployed overseas. “HAPPY THANKSGIVING, your Country is starting to do really well,” his first tweet of the morning began. Trump mentioned several things for which he is grateful to himself, including […]
By Katie Paris - November 23, 2017
Donald Trump started tweeting before 7 a.m. this morning to once again demand the firing of American citizens who disagree with him, encourage NFL fans to “refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country,” and even suggest that those who do not follow his boycott demand do not love America. […]
By Katie Paris - September 24, 2017
Donald Trump has decided that the appropriate response to Hurricane Irma is to once again leave the White House and head out for another weekend getaway, and he’s taken his whole cabinet with him. The people of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina are bracing for massive damage. All eyes of our nation are […]
By Katie Paris - September 09, 2017
The footage is in from Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meeting at the G20 summit. Questions have been swirling about whether Trump will confront Putin about interfering in the 2016 U.S. election. The video, showing Trump warmly greeting Putin with a handshake and a pat on the back is not a positive indication: https://twitter.com/DaniellaMicaela/status/883285576358801409 It […]
By Katie Paris - July 07, 2017
Donald Trump will meet with Vladimir Putin Friday, and neither he nor anyone in his administration will say if Trump will address Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Since Trump has largely avoided the media, his joint appearance with the president of Poland offered the rare opportunity for American journalists to ask him important […]
By Katie Paris - July 06, 2017
Kellyanne Conway is clearly annoyed. One analysis after another of Donald Trump’s twitter feed has proven what the American people already know to be true: Her boss is unpresidential, petulant, and unfocused. It’s not the image she wants to project. So she’s desperate. In an interview on Fox & Friends, she exhibited the lengths to which […]
By Katie Paris - July 03, 2017
The White House claimed three days ago that Donald Trump has never “promoted or encouraged violence of any kind.” It was a lie then, and Trump has made a liar out of his defenders again today. After spending his Saturday defending his use of social media, claiming that it’s what makes him “MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL,” […]
By Katie Paris - July 02, 2017
MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough were supposed to be on vacation. But Donald Trump’s vile tweets attacking her came in the final moments of their Thursday broadcast, and they would not leave town without responding forcefully. In a jointly penned Washington Post op-ed, titled “The President is not well,” they laid out their […]
By Katie Paris - June 30, 2017
Republican politicians were quick to distance themselves from Donald Trump’s vicious and disgusting attack on MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski’s appearance and intellect. But none withdrew their support from him. None withdrew their support for his disastrous, immoral agenda. And none admitted to turning a blind eye to his misogyny. This evening, Dan Rather appeared on […]
By Katie Paris - June 29, 2017
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will force a vote on the GOP’s massively unpopular and harmful health care repeal bill as soon as next week. That leaves little time for senators to gather input from the people they work for. But rather than rushing home to talk to their constituents, every single GOP senator appears […]
By Katie Paris - June 23, 2017
The resistance is alive and well in Iowa. Hours before Trump arrived at his pep rally in Cedar Rapids, people from across the state took to the streets to protest his agenda. Chanting “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here,” they made their message known: Despite winning the state, Trump does not speak for […]
By Katie Paris - June 22, 2017
I was born in Atlanta and spent my early childhood years growing up in John Lewis’s congressional district. My brother and I attended pre-school with Lewis’s kids, and my mom and dad attended parents’ meetings with Lewis and his wife, Lillian. I’ll always feel lucky because of that personal connection, but it’s not why John Lewis […]
By Katie Paris - June 20, 2017
Donald Trump declared the media the enemy months ago. It was a dangerous, dictatorial assertion that drew wide criticism from across the political spectrum. His threats to a free press have only intensified since, and the White House press team has followed suit. Month ago, the White House banned from a press briefing major news […]
By Katie Paris - June 20, 2017
Despite mounting evidence of both collusion and obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation, there was no on-camera White House press briefing Monday. That makes it a week since the last briefing. White House press secretary Sean Spicer held an off-camera press “gaggle,” but no cameras or audio were allowed. The original daily press schedule the White […]
By Katie Paris - June 19, 2017
Donald Trump is not popular in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. While 52 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of Democrat Jon Ossoff — compared with a 42 percent favorable impression of his Republican, opponent Karen Handel — only 35 percent view Trump favorably. Handel has tried to keep her distance, but Trump can’t seem to help […]
By Katie Paris - June 19, 2017
As if America needed yet another reason to miss President Obama, Donald Trump gave us one on Father’s Day. While President Obama sent a morning tweet saying how proud he is to be Sasha and Malia’s dad, and wishing other fathers a happy Father’s Day, Trump used his Twitter account as he always does: to […]
By Katie Paris - June 18, 2017
Donald Trump is a big fan of Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro, and she appears to be working overtime to keep it that way. Since the horrific shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise and four brave others in Alexandria, political leaders from across the ideological spectrum have unified to call for greater civility. Every day […]
By Katie Paris - June 18, 2017
Our nation’s patient advocacy groups are experts in the health care challenges our family members face. They understand the complexities of the medical issues with which they contend and the system they must navigate to get the care they need. Republicans say they embrace the notion of “patient-centered care” — health care that serves the […]
By Katie Paris - June 17, 2017
Donald Trump’s behavior has become increasingly erratic — even for Trump. Since news broke that he is in fact under investigation for obstruction of justice by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the full investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, Trump’s furious claim that there is a “witch hunt” out to get […]
By Katie Paris - June 16, 2017
Last month, Mike Pence set up a leadership PAC. The fund can be used to bolster congressional candidates, but as Bloomberg noted, it’s “unusual” for a vice president to create his own PAC. Others pointed out that forming the PAC could be a sign of Pence’s intent to run for higher office. But the PAC can serve another […]
By Katie Paris - June 16, 2017
Senator Kamala Harris is a former prosecutor and she knows how to question a witness. For the second time in a row, however, her persistence was met with outright resistance from her male Republican colleagues. When they didn’t like her questioning of James Comey, they interrupted her. When they didn’t like her questioning of Jeff […]
By Katie Paris - June 13, 2017
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is skeptical of the Senate GOP health care bill to repeal Obamacare. It’s being drafted in secret by a committee that includes no women. There have been no public hearings. Few senators have apparently even seen any text of the bill. And the media was just banned from conducting interviews in the […]
By Katie Paris - June 13, 2017
Kellyanne Conway is tired of being held accountable for her boss and his actions. And her attempts to deflect from that accountability are becoming more vicious. In a recent interview, she tried to discredit serious concerns about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia by complaining that the media should focus on terrorism instead. “Imagine if the mainstream media, every time […]
By Katie Paris - June 12, 2017
Unraveling the web of ties between Donald Trump and his closest associates to Russian officials is a complicated task, but the leading Democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee has once again lucidly described the gravity of the probe, and urged those at the center of it to put their country first. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner’s opening statement at […]
By Katie Paris - June 07, 2017
Education Secretary Betsy Devos is not good for education in America. Her positions come as no surprise to anyone who believes in public education. We are braced for the worst. But that doesn’t mean a single day can go by when her policies are not documented and resisted. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) demonstrated how to do just that […]
By Katie Paris - June 06, 2017
These are the moments that we need presidential leadership most. With Donald Trump, we won’t get it. As President Obama reminded us this week, we have “the absence of American leadership.” Once again, Trump is using an act of terrorism to champion himself and his political allies and attack at his political opponents. When the news of the […]
By Katie Paris - June 04, 2017
Hundreds of Ohio clergy gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Columbus, Ohio to speak truth to power. One after another, they called on Republican Senator Rob Portman, who says he opposes the House bill but still supports repealing Obamacare, to reject repeal and to protect health care for millions of Americans. Rev. William Barber, founder […]
By Katie Paris - June 02, 2017
Sometimes local news just does it best. As a local TV reporter in Western Michigan, Marvis Herring surely has some familiarity with local Republican Congressman Tim Walberg. So perhaps he was not surprised to hear the news that Walberg had recently told constituents at a Grand Rapids town hall that God will “take care of” climate change. […]
By Katie Paris - June 01, 2017
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) recently admitted that Donald Trump’s behavior surrounding the Russia investigation may rise to the level of an impeachable offense. As former FBI Director James Comey prepares to testify before Congress next week, reportedly that Trump requested he back off the investigation, voters will be watching to see if Amash sticks to […]
By Katie Paris - June 01, 2017