Attorney, editor, and writer who has worked in the areas of First Amendment, education, and labor law. Follow her on Twitter @snipy.
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
The Department of Justice recently confirmed the Department of Veterans Affairs has the authority to provide abortions in limited circumstances, even if the pregnant veteran is located in a state that entirely bans abortions.
By Lisa Needham - September 29, 2022
After their success with Dobbs, anti-abortion activists have a new target: contraception.
By Lisa Needham - September 26, 2022
An overview of six of the 12 states with strict abortion bans after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision shows the drastic effects anti-abortion policies can have.
By Lisa Needham - September 07, 2022
An overview of six of the 12 states with strict abortion bans after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision shows the drastic effects anti-abortion policies can have.
By Lisa Needham - August 31, 2022
Lies pedaled by anti-abortion advocates are being proven wrong by the horrifying effects new laws are having on people across the country.
By Lisa Needham - August 19, 2022
With lives at risk following the enactment of dangerous abortion bans in several states, the federal government is taking action.
By Lisa Needham - August 09, 2022
New York, California and Minnesota are among the states taking steps to protect abortion providers and patients.
By Lisa Needham - July 28, 2022
Republican officials and commentators were quick to declare the story ‘a fabrication,’ ‘#FakeNews,’ and ‘a fictive rape.’
By Lisa Needham - July 18, 2022
Why would Republican lawmakers take issue with a bill that would help protect pregnant people in the workplace?
By Lisa Needham - June 22, 2022
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, 26 states stand ready to enact bans that will require people to travel long distances to see abortion providers.
By Lisa Needham - May 18, 2022
A nationwide ban flies in the face of anti-abortion activists’ insistence that they want the question returned to the states.
By Lisa Needham - May 11, 2022
Three prominent reproductive rights groups have announced they will spend $150 million on advertising in the midterm elections.
By Lisa Needham - May 04, 2022
The state GOP’s proposed new platform would remove protections for pregnant people whose lives are at risk.
By Lisa Needham - April 28, 2022
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor made clear the state is passing abortion bans because it believes Roe v. Wade will be overturned.
By Lisa Needham - April 13, 2022
Since the Supreme Court agreed to consider Mississippi’s ban, multiple states have passed previability bans.
By Lisa Needham - April 08, 2022
Lawmakers and clinics in a number of states are stepping up to increase the number of patients abortion providers are able to see.
By Lisa Needham - March 29, 2022
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn claimed he hadn’t seen the data that shows Medicaid expansion saves lives.
By Lisa Needham - March 21, 2022
‘The courts have allowed Texas to nullify a constitutional right,’ Nancy Northrup, who runs the Center for Reproductive Rights, said.
By Lisa Needham - March 14, 2022
‘The same amount of people still need abortions as they did before they started all these bans,’ Amy Hagstrom Miller of Whole Woman’s Health said.
By Lisa Needham - March 10, 2022
A new study sheds light on Americans’ real attitudes toward abortion and those who seek them.
By Lisa Needham - February 25, 2022
ACOG is asking clinicians to ‘acknowledg[e] historical and ongoing reproductive mistreatment of people of color and other marginalized individuals whose reproductive desires have been devalued.’
By Lisa Needham - February 09, 2022
One Texas anti-abortion organization spent federal funding money on cruises and employee perks.
By Lisa Needham - February 07, 2022
Doctors have called for an end to mandatory ultrasounds ahead of abortions.
By Lisa Needham - January 28, 2022
The Biden administration reminded insurers of their obligations under the Affordable Care Act.
By Lisa Needham - January 25, 2022
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent that the majority’s ruling allows Texas ‘yet again to extend the deprivation of the federal constitutional rights of its citizens.’
By Lisa Needham - January 21, 2022
Cancer screenings and other health care services could be severely disrupted as a result of GOP officials’ actions.
By Lisa Needham - January 14, 2022
It’s a huge change from the Trump administration.
By Lisa Needham - December 21, 2021
Democrats are looking to restore access to basic health care at Planned Parenthood, which Republicans in Texas have blocked completely.
By Lisa Needham - December 10, 2021
Justice Amy Coney Barrett doesn’t seem concerned with the demands and risks of pregnancy.
By Lisa Needham - December 02, 2021
If the bill passes, it will be yet another restriction in a state that already has multiple anti-abortion restrictions.
By Lisa Needham - November 29, 2021