Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal

House GOP celebrates National Police Week while pushing to defund local law enforcement

Texas Rep. Monica De La Cruz celebrated a police funding initiative that her caucus now wants to eliminate.

By Jesse Valentine - May 16, 2024

Evolution denier Mark Robinson could reshape North Carolina’s education system

Robinson said science education should be taken out of elementary schools

By Jesse Valentine - May 16, 2024

Republican Jay Ashcroft backs anti-abortion clinics that push lies and disinformation

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

Republican Sam Brown’s assault on teacher unions could backfire

Brown has called for abolishing the U.S. Department of Education.

By Jesse Valentine - May 09, 2024

Florida abortion ban puts GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s anti-choice views in spotlight

Luna supports abortions bans with no exceptions for rape

By Jesse Valentine - May 07, 2024

Trump leaves door open to banning medication abortion nationwide

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

Republican Caroleene Dobson wants Alabama abortion ban to go nationwide

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. DeWine said he didn’t know of millions in FirstEnergy support. Is it plausible?

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

GOP Rep. Zach Nunn suggests laws against hate crime aren’t needed

Hate crimes in the United States rose from 2022 to 2023.

By Jesse Valentine - April 15, 2024

GOP Senate candidate Hung Cao blames racial equity for Baltimore bridge tragedy

Cao is a former U.S Navy captain.

By Jesse Valentine - March 29, 2024

GOP Rep. Jennifer Kiggans donates thousands to far-right extremists

Kiggans has flirted with baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

By Jesse Valentine - March 08, 2024

Ohio senate candidate Bernie Moreno: “Absolute pro-life no exceptions.”

Ohio voted to protect abortion rights. GOP senate candidate Bernie Moreno doesn't care.

By Jesse Valentine - March 07, 2024

Anti-China Republicans pocket thousands from Chinese owned conglomerate

Syngenta AG owns approximately 1500 acres of U.S farmland.

By Jesse Valentine - March 04, 2024

Republican Eric Hovde makes inconsistent statements about family history

Hovde is running for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin despite primarily residing in California.

By Jesse Valentine - February 26, 2024

Republican David McCormick invests millions in website that platforms Holocaust denial

McCormick says we need leaders with the moral clarity to condemn antisemitism.

By Jesse Valentine - February 09, 2024

Lawmakers will again take up bills expanding, tightening gun laws

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

UAW delivers rousing presidential endorsement for Biden over ‘scab’ Trump

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

Republicans Sam Brown and Jeff Gunter sling mud in Nevada senate primary

Gunter has repeatedly referred to Brown as “Scam Brown”

By Jesse Valentine - January 17, 2024

A Young Texas Woman Almost Died Due To The Texas Abortion Bans – Now She’s Battling To Save Other Women

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 legislation preview: Maryland advocates want to focus on access, patients in 2024 session

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

How GOP senate hopefuls try to excuse the January 6 insurrection

Five people died on January 6, 2021 – including a police officer who was bludgeoned to death.

By Jesse Valentine - January 05, 2024

NH lawmakers will be taking up major voting bills this year. Here are some to watch for.

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

Republican US Senate candidates want to make Trump’s tax cuts permanent

Most Americans believe wealthy individuals and big corporations don’t pay their fair share in taxes.

By Jesse Valentine - December 22, 2023

Rand Paul went all in on the Kentucky governor’s race. It didn’t work.

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

Texas governor and attorney general do little to curb state’s chemical plant crisis

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

Likely GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde proposed tax hike for poorer workers and retirees

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

Whitmer signs specific criminal penalties for assaulting health care workers into law

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

105 Republicans voted to expel Santos for things Trump has also done

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

For Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, another Trump term is another chance to kill Obamacare

Millions of Texas families’ health and well-being would be jeopardized if the legislation were repealed.

By Jesse Valentine - December 04, 2023

Florida Sen. Rick Scott backs Donald Trump in revived push to repeal Obamacare

More than 3 million Floridians will lose their health insurance if Scott and Trump succeed.

By Jesse Valentine - November 30, 2023

Tate Reeves took donations from power company that hiked customer rates

Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.

By Jesse Valentine - November 06, 2023

Daniel Cameron ran on depoliticizing the Kentucky AG’s office. He made it more political.

The Republican gubernatorial nominee also broke his promises to make the office more frugal.

By Jesse Valentine - November 03, 2023

Republican operatives sound every alarm on current trajectory of 2023 governor’s race

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

Donald Trump makes last minute push for Bernie Moreno in Ohio’s U.S. Senate primary

A couple thousand Ohio voters spent a blustery Saturday on a Dayton tarmac waiting to see Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. In front of bleachers done up with bunting, Trump promised the largest “deportation operation in American history” and compared immigrants to animals.

By Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal - March 18, 2024

Key takeaways from Monday’s U.S. Senate Ohio Republican primary debate

Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senate primary candidates met for their second of three debates at the University of Findlay Monday evening. Secretary of State Frank LaRose, state Sen. Matt Dolan, R-Chagrin Falls, and entrepreneur Bernie Moreno sat side-by-side on stage. The winner of the March 19 primary will face Democratic Ohio U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown in November.

By Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal - February 20, 2024

Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senate candidates spar in first televised debate

The three Ohio Republican candidates competing for their party’s U.S. Senate nomination met Monday in the race’s first televised statewide debate.

By Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal - January 22, 2024

Ohio Second Amendment ‘sanctuary’ measure cleared for the House floor

An Ohio House committee has signed off on the Second Amendment Preservation Act, clearing the way for its consideration on the floor.

By Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal - November 20, 2023

Pumping the brakes: Ohio House Speaker dismisses effort to limit court jurisdiction on Issue 1

Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens threw cold water on a bid to thwart the recent abortion rights amendment Issue 1. Instead of attempting to deny the courts’ jurisdiction or rushing to the ballot with a repeal effort, Stephens argued lawmakers should focus on maternal and early childhood care.

By Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal - November 15, 2023