Matt_D_Cohen
Matt is a reporter covering extremism and politics. He was previously a former Ben Bagdikian investigative reporting fellow at Mother Jones and the former arts editor at Washington City Paper and editor-in-chief of DCist.
Several of Trump’s cabinet picks have worked to undermine workers’ rights.
By Jesse Valentine - November 26, 2024
Ken Paxton has been accused of corruption, bribery, and self-dealing
By Jesse Valentine - November 13, 2024
Every seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives is up for election this year.
By Jesse Valentine - November 04, 2024
The Michigan Supreme Court overturned a Republican attempt to gut a paid sick leave law.
By Jesse Valentine - November 01, 2024
I was 17 when I found out that I was pregnant and was already about 8 weeks along. I was so overwhelmed because I had no idea of what my options were going to be, and I was afraid. I was well aware that I wouldn’t be able to access an abortion in Texas. The […]
By Bonnie Fuller - October 31, 2024
Hogan refused to sign a state law that banned price gouging by drugmakers.
By Jesse Valentine - October 30, 2024
Chavez-DeRemer represents Oregon’s 5th district despite living in District 3.
By Jesse Valentine - October 30, 2024
More than half of Ohio’s child care funding comes from a federal program.
By Jesse Valentine - October 30, 2024
Collins has a history of incendiary and offensive social media posts.
By Jesse Valentine - October 28, 2024
The partisan split in the Michigan House of Representatives will be decided in the Nov. 5 election.
By Jesse Valentine - October 28, 2024
Ayotte voted on multiple occasions to cut financial aid for low-income students.
By Jesse Valentine - October 23, 2024
Some pro-voucher lawmakers pushed for the Bible to be taught in elementary schools.
By Jesse Valentine - October 23, 2024
Critics of school choice say it diverts funds away from public schools to private institutions.
By Jesse Valentine - October 22, 2024
Beckwith pledged to defund Planned Parenthood “not only in Indiana, but across the country.”
By Jesse Valentine - October 16, 2024
Scott is being accused of using military members for political gain.
By Jesse Valentine - October 15, 2024
Bishop opposed a bill that could’ve helped missing person investigations in his own district.
By Jesse Valentine - October 08, 2024
Bresnahan’s net worth is estimated to be up to $69 million.
By Jesse Valentine - October 07, 2024
Senate candidate’s claims of tapes being ‘chopped’ debunked
By Darrell Ehrlick, Daily Montanan - October 04, 2024
The groups claim Rosen is guilty of insider trading, an offense she has never committed or been investigated for.
By Jesse Valentine - October 04, 2024
Moreno was appointed to the MetroHealth board by a CEO who was later fired for malfeasance.
By Jesse Valentine - October 01, 2024
Doctors have warned that American women will die as a result of Trump's state abortion bans - now they have.
By Bonnie Fuller - September 23, 2024
Dave McCormick has described Iran as “our sworn enemy” and the “underwriter of terror across the Middle East.”
By Jesse Valentine - September 18, 2024
More than 700,000 veterans in Virginia could lose their health insurance under the plan.
By Jesse Valentine - September 18, 2024
Hovde has touted his work with assisted living facilities as an asset on the campaign trail.
By Jesse Valentine - September 18, 2024
Montanas could vote to add a right to abortion access to their state constitution.
By Jesse Valentine - September 13, 2024
Ayotte voted at least nine times to repeal Obamacare
By Jesse Valentine - September 04, 2024
Buckhout said President Joe Biden should be impeached for not being tougher on China.
By Jesse Valentine - August 23, 2024
Scott travels almost exclusively on a private jet.
By Jesse Valentine - August 21, 2024
Moreno says extending Trump’s tax cuts would lessen the national debt. It won’t.
By Jesse Valentine - August 21, 2024
In July, 3,793 Mainers registered to vote, which was higher than every month since the 2023 November election.
By Emma Davis, Maine Morning Star - August 14, 2024
Disinformation about foreign investments has engulfed the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania.
By Jesse Valentine - August 14, 2024
Hovde is running for the U.S. Senate on a platform that emphasizes economic opportunity.
By Jesse Valentine - August 13, 2024
As Secretary of the Interior, Zinke spent $12,000 on a private jet from Las Vegas to Montana.
By Jesse Valentine - August 12, 2024
Bresnahan has contributed thousands of dollars to anti-abortion candidates
By Jesse Valentine - August 06, 2024
Gianforte criticized the Biden administration for giving temporary work status to Venezuelan asylum seekers.
By Jesse Valentine - August 05, 2024
Calvert has cast several votes seeking to curtail abortion access throughout his 30 years in Congress.
By Jesse Valentine - July 29, 2024
Ayotte has endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign
By Jesse Valentine - July 26, 2024
Former Pres. Donald Trump needs to discard his storied penchant for racist and sexist tropes and nicknames if he wants to win over independent voters in his likely race against Vice Pres. Kamala Harris, say political experts in Nevada, one of a handful of battleground states.
By Dana Gentry, Nevada Current - July 24, 2024
Cruz’s Democratic opponent says he is the “architect” of the state’s prohibitive abortion laws.
By Jesse Valentine - July 23, 2024
Bridger Aerospace is being sued by two former employees for breach of contract.
By Jesse Valentine - July 22, 2024
Brown’s race for U.S. Senate could decide which party controls congress in 2025.
By Jesse Valentine - July 09, 2024
Domenici is one of several Republican U.S. Senate candidates who has been scrutinized for owning properties in multiple states.
By Jesse Valentine - July 08, 2024
Robinson said feminism has created a generation of weak minded men.
By Jesse Valentine - July 03, 2024
Ayotte has repeatedly backed reforms to Medicare and Social Security that would result in less Americans getting the support they need.
By Jesse Valentine - July 02, 2024
Paxton’s close relationship with the Texas Public Policy Foundation dates back to 2015.
By Jesse Valentine - June 24, 2024
Cruz’s podcast is the subject of an FEC complaint claiming its ad revenue structure violated campaign finance law
By Jesse Valentine - June 11, 2024
Lake’s budget proposal could imperil border security, which Lake often cites as one of her top priorities.
By Jesse Valentine - June 10, 2024
Cao supported a claim that diversity and inclusion initiatives caused the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
By Jesse Valentine - June 06, 2024
Moreno is one of multiple Republican U.S. Senate candidates to exaggerate their background.
By Jesse Valentine - May 24, 2024
Voters in several states will likely have the chance to reverse their states’ abortion bans this November — but the election results could come too late for clinics that have been forced to scale back or even shut down while those bans were in effect.
By Chabeli Carrazana and Shefali Luthra - May 22, 2024
When Ayotte worked with Caterpillar Inc. the company offshored over 2,000 jobs.
By Jesse Valentine - May 21, 2024
Medical residencies are key for getting doctors to practice in states, and declines can contribute to shortages.
By Alander Rocha, Alabama Reflector - May 21, 2024
Texas Rep. Monica De La Cruz celebrated a police funding initiative that her caucus now wants to eliminate.
By Jesse Valentine - May 16, 2024
Robinson said science education should be taken out of elementary schools
By Jesse Valentine - May 16, 2024
The Republic Pregnancy Resource Center website provides step-by-step directions from local middle and high schools to their address.
By Jesse Valentine - May 14, 2024
Brown has called for abolishing the U.S. Department of Education.
By Jesse Valentine - May 09, 2024
Luna supports abortions bans with no exceptions for rape
By Jesse Valentine - May 07, 2024
Donald Trump is planning to release more details in the weeks ahead about how his administration would regulate access to medication abortion, according to comments he made during a lengthy interview with Time magazine published Tuesday.
By Jennifer Shutt, States Newsroom - April 30, 2024
Dobson is the Republican candidate in what will be one of the most-watched House races of 2024.
By Jesse Valentine - April 30, 2024
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s claim to not know about the millions an Akron utility spent supporting his 2018 campaign for governor simply isn’t credible, an Ohio political scientist said in a recent interview. A spokesperson for DeWine pushed back. FirstEnergy provided that support, then spent more than $60 million to pass and protect a $1.3 billion ratepayer-financed […]
By Marty Schladen, Ohio Capital Journal - April 29, 2024
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
Workers are demanding better wages, better benefits, and protections in an industry shifting toward electric vehicle production.
By Matt Cohen - September 20, 2023
This fall’s elections could have major implications for 2025, when voters will choose whether to keep three of the court's Democratic justices.
By Matt Cohen - September 08, 2023
Milwaukee activists helped thwart the right-wing organization's efforts to host events around last week's Republican presidential debate.
By Matt Cohen - August 30, 2023
Republicans claim state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz’s previous criticism of the state’s legislative maps should disqualify her from hearing the case.
By Matt Cohen - August 17, 2023
A complaint alleges that several organizations and entities that oppose ranked choice voting in Alaska founded a church, allowing donors to dodge campaign finance laws.
By Matt Cohen - August 14, 2023
The thrice-indicted former president’s campaign is spending most of what it takes in on legal fees, super PACs backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are flush with cash, and more takeaways.
By Matt Cohen - August 07, 2023
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed new laws to strengthen Michigan’s gun safety legislation earlier this year. Democratic lawmakers in the Legislature plan to pass more bills.
By Matt Cohen - August 01, 2023
The task force’s formation comes at a time when Republican politicians are rolling back child labor laws across the country.
By Matt Cohen - July 27, 2023
A March 2022 internal investigation by the Department of Homeland Security found problems in its process for identifying and dealing with members of extremist groups within its ranks.
By Matt Cohen - July 19, 2023
A new filing by the former president’s lawyers asks to delay his trial for mishandling classified documents until after the 2024 election.
By Matt Cohen - July 13, 2023
The city filed a lawsuit against the two largest ghost gun suppliers in the country.
By Matt Cohen - July 12, 2023
Two conservative groups that filed a lawsuit to block the voter-approved donor transparency rules now have a chance to revise their filing.
By Matt Cohen - July 06, 2023
Rep. Rashida Tlaib has introduced a bill intended to reduce firearms deaths by requiring gun dealers to offer for sale a safety device with each gun sale.
By Matt Cohen - June 29, 2023
A Florida-based right-wing lobbying group with ties to the Koch network, Leonard Leo, and the Uihleins is behind the GOP’s latest efforts to change child labor laws.
By Matt Cohen - June 27, 2023
The Global Project Against Extremism and Hate hopes the directory 'will help to identify where far-right actors are active' and 'the narratives they are pushing.'
By Matt Cohen - June 14, 2023
Attorney General Dana Nessel's comments come after her department's investigation into allegations of corruption and sexual assault against the state's former speaker of the House.
By Matt Cohen - June 09, 2023
The billionaire businessman has spent tens of millions of dollars to influence elections in Pennsylvania since 2010.
By Matt Cohen - June 07, 2023
Secretive right-wing donors and foundations have given millions of dollars to prominent anti-trans groups.
By Nick Vachon and Matt Cohen - May 31, 2023
Giffords and March for Our Lives are asking law students to sign a pledge saying they won't represent the gun industry.
By Matt Cohen - May 18, 2023
The Concord Fund, which has ties to Federalist Society co-chairman Leonard Leo, has given more than $2 million to a PAC supporting the Kentucky attorney general's gubernatorial campaign.
By Matt Cohen - May 12, 2023
The billionaire hedge fund manager, who contributed millions to the Florida governor's recent reelection campaign, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on local elections in Illinois.
By Matt Cohen - May 11, 2023
The conservative lawyer and co-chairman of the Federalist Society has used his nonprofit group the Concord Fund to funnel millions of dollars in dark money toward judicial advocacy and elections.
By Matt Cohen - April 26, 2023
Since the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, political spending and dark money in elections have soared to record highs.
By Matt Cohen - April 17, 2023
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican candidate for governor in the state, accepted campaign money from lobbyists for corporations that paid settlements in connection with the opioid crisis.
By Matt Cohen - April 07, 2023
The Republican State Leadership Committee placed a $200,000 ad buy in support of conservative Justice Daniel Kelly last week.
By Matt Cohen - March 28, 2023
Kelly’s campaign has received at least $6 million from groups associated with far-right megadonor Dick Uihlein.
By Matt Cohen - March 24, 2023
Daniel Kelly voted in 2017 against a rule that would force judges off cases involving those who spent money to get them elected.
By Matt Cohen - March 07, 2023
The conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate was involved in a GOP scheme to submit fake electors to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and was part of a nine-city ‘election integrity’ tour in 2022.
By Matt Cohen - March 03, 2023
The groups have ties to a national anti-abortion group, election deniers, and a major conservative donor.
By Matt Cohen - February 17, 2023
The race will determine the partisan makeup of the state’s highest court at a time when abortion rights and voting rights are at risk.
By Matt Cohen - February 07, 2023