Human rights activist and communications strategist, formerly Managing Partner of Renna Communications. Follow her on Twitter @leahmcelrath.
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
MSNBC anchor Katy Tur posed the question many Americans have been asking about the GOP: “Whose side are they going to be on” if Donald Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller? Trump already fired the FBI director in charge of investigating his ties to Russia. And he has repeatedly attempted to undermine Mueller’s legitimacy, threatened to fire him, and […]
By Leah McElrath - July 22, 2017
Donald Trump and the White House struggle to keep their stories straight about Trump’s meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit. When news emerged that Trump had a previously undisclosed second meeting with Putin, the White House tried to dismiss it as nothing more than”just a brief conversation at the end of a […]
By Leah McElrath - July 20, 2017
“Very confused” perfectly summarizes how most people who are following the Republicans’ efforts to repeal Obamacare are feeling. At the start of the week, Trump tweeted, “Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!” The very next day, […]
By Leah McElrath - July 19, 2017
The fight about health care is really about whether or not people who can afford to pay for insurance have a greater right to stay alive than those who cannot. It’s that simple, and the American people know it. On Tuesday, Americans in 39 states will engage in more than 120 actions to demand that […]
By Leah McElrath - July 17, 2017
Following a classified hearing of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, Washington Democratic Rep. Denny Heck offered an extremely troubling possibility. In an interview on CNN, Heck noted to host Jim Acosta that federal law does not require a president to make public any pardons he or she issues. Therefore, Donald Trump could “privately” give a “blanket, […]
By Leah McElrath - July 15, 2017
Donald Trump completed his visit with French President Emmanuel Macron with yet another embarrassment: a bizarrely extended and sometimes-three-way handshake. Macron and his wife, Brigitte, were saying their farewells to Trump and his wife, Melania. Macron extended his hand to Trump and Trump took it. And then didn’t let it go for over 28 seconds: […]
By Leah McElrath - July 14, 2017
Rev. William Barber led a group of Christian and Jewish clergy to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office on Capitol Hill in an act of “Moral Resistance” against the deadly GOP health care repeal bill. Approximately 10 protesters, including Barber, were arrested. Call and response chants of “If we don’t get it? Shut it down!” and “What […]
By Leah McElrath - July 13, 2017
Kellyanne Conway used two pieces of paper as props during an appearance on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, hoping to convince viewers there was no collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. While the props and messaging were pathetic in and of themselves, Conway inadvertently gave social media a blank page to use to ridicule […]
By Leah McElrath - July 13, 2017
In a bizarre move that only makes the situation that much worse, Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. released what he claims is the complete email thread about setting up a meeting with a Kremlin-linked attorney. The exchanges show that Trump Jr. thought he was going to be receiving information to help his father’s presidential campaign from […]
By Leah McElrath - July 11, 2017
Kentucky’s only Democratic lawmaker in Congress, Rep. John Yarmuth, rallied his constituents to keep “speaking out” on health care at a packed town hall held right in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s backyard. And in return, he received a standing ovation for his staunch support of the Affordable Care Act and opposition to the Republican plan to dismantle […]
By Leah McElrath - July 10, 2017
Ivanka Trump sat in for her father at the G20 conference — literally taking his seat at the table in a stunning display of nepotism on the global stage. Although not elected, confirmed, sworn-in, or even holding an official position within the United States government, Ivanka represented the U.S. at a G20 leaders session on African […]
By Leah McElrath - July 08, 2017
Mary Jennings (“MJ”) Hegar’s courage is not in question. She was awarded a Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor for her service in the United States Air Force – and now she is running to unseat incumbent Texas Republican Rep. John Carter, who has held the position for 14 years. Carter is a […]
By Leah McElrath - July 08, 2017
Mike Pence lashed out in response to news reports about the refusal of states to comply fully with his so-called Election Integrity Commission’s request to turn over sensitive voter registration data. Pence issued a statement on behalf of commission, calling it statement “real news” in a tweet that distorted the reality of the degree of […]
By Leah McElrath - July 06, 2017
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, appeared on Fox News over the holiday to float the latest White House narrative about Russia’s interference in our 2016 election. Like Donald Trump and other members of the administration, Lewandowski tried to cast doubt on the fact of Russia’s interference, while also suggesting that if any meddling took […]
By Leah McElrath - July 05, 2017
Republican Sen. Susan Collins came away from her meetings with constituents over the holiday weekend buoyed by support for her outspoken dissent about the GOP Senate plan to repeal Obamacare and dismantle Medicaid. Unlike many of her GOP colleagues, Collins actually attended her local Fourth of July parade and talked face-to-face with Maine voters: Marched […]
By Leah McElrath - July 05, 2017
Recent polling sends a strong, unequivocal message to Republican senators in swing states: If you vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, you will likely face serious consequences in your next re-election bid. Voters in Colorado, Iowa, and North Carolina disapprove of repealing the ACA by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Even among Republican-identified voters, support for […]
By Leah McElrath - July 04, 2017
Maryland Democratic Attorney General Brian Frosh did not hold back in his response to the Republican Party’s latest voter suppression efforts, calling them “repugnant” and “designed only to intimidate voters.” In a statement, Frosh rightly points out that Donald Trump created the so-called Election Integrity Commission, led by Mike Pence, to “indulge” his fantasy that he […]
By Leah McElrath - July 03, 2017
New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie didn’t let a little thing like a government shutdown stop him from enjoying a beach vacation. More to the point, he lay bare the arrogance so common to the Republican Party, when he petulantly responded to his critics by saying, “The governor’s allowed to go to his residences, and I’m […]
By Leah McElrath - July 03, 2017
Donald Trump is considering offering Russian President Vladimir Putin concessions, and we have no idea what Trump is getting in return. The Guardian reports that the White House asked its National Security Council staff to come up with a list of “deliverables” Trump can offer Putin during their first in-person meeting at the G20 summit in […]
By Leah McElrath - June 29, 2017
Donald Trump’s commerce secretary appeared by teleconference at a meeting in Germany and had his video-feed cut — a move reportedly greeted by laughter and applause from other world leaders. Wilbur Ross was supposed travel to Berlin to attend the meeting of the Economic Council of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s political party. In what can be viewed […]
By Leah McElrath - June 29, 2017
While Donald Trump claims the Medicaid cuts will be “great for everybody,” protests are intensifying against the Republican efforts to enact those cuts and to repeal Obamacare. Many see the Senate decision to delay a vote on the bill as a victory, and that victory has further empowered resistance to it. Protesters gathered at Republican […]
By Leah McElrath - June 28, 2017
Donald Trump’s Twitter-fingers were busy again Wednesday morning, issuing a threat to yet another business owner. Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos acquired the Washington Post in 2013, and Trump lashed out at both companies in a bizarrely worded allegation of “FAKE NEWS”: The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet […]
By Leah McElrath - June 28, 2017
More than 1.4 million Americans are receiving nursing home or other long-term care paid for by Medicaid. One of them is my father. My father is now 77 years old and has a rare form of dementia. When he became unable to care for himself in his home, I took him into my home and […]
By Leah McElrath - June 27, 2017
Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to try to create yet another false narrative for his supporters. In just three days, he has made eight public statements about Russian meddling in the 2016 United States presidential election. Rather than taking Trump’s comments at face value as truths he believes, or minimizing them as meaningless rants, […]
By Leah McElrath - June 26, 2017
Six constituents of Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito were arrested Monday at her office in Charleston, West Virginia, after performing a sit-in to protest the GOP plan to repeal health care coverage. The group went to Capito’s office hoping to convince the senator to vote against the bill, with a sign saying “Senator Capito: Whose side are you on? […]
By Leah McElrath - June 26, 2017
Donald Trump’s administration has made it official: It is only concerned with “Countering Violent Extremism” when that violence is inflicted in the name of Islamist ideology, stripping all funding for a program addressing right-wing, white supremacist violence. Before President Barack Obama left office, his administration allotted a $400,000 grant to be paid in 2016 to […]
By Leah McElrath - June 24, 2017
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) believes that Jared Kushner and others in the White House could be subject to federal criminal charges of conspiracy. Kushner has previously been confirmed as a “person of interest” in the FBI investigation into possible collusion between his father-in-law, Donald Trump, and the Russian government. Appearing on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris […]
By Leah McElrath - June 22, 2017
Randy Bryce is an ironworker, a father, a son, a cancer survivor, a military veteran, a union member, and a Democrat. And he’s running for Congress in Wisconsin to unseat Republican Speaker Paul Ryan. Bryce announced his bid for Congress and introduced himself to voters with a powerful video that quickly went viral, viewed over 125,000 times in […]
By Leah McElrath - June 20, 2017
Vice President Mike went to Congress to meet with his former fellow conservative House members and demand their support on the bill to repeal Obamacare. And when he blasted them for withholding their support, they cried. According to Politico, Pence crashed what was supposed to be a secret meeting of the House’s uber-conservative House Freedom […]
By Leah McElrath - June 17, 2017
The Guardian reports that Richard Burt, an American lobbyist for Russian government interests, has confirmed he attended two dinners hosted by then-Senator Jeff Sessions in 2016, during the period Sessions served as an adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. During the first half of 2016 alone, Burt and his firm were paid $365,000 to lobby on […]
By Leah McElrath - June 15, 2017