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Nick Vachon is a political reporter at TAI. His work has also appeared in In These Times, National Memo, Common Dreams, and RealClear Politics.
JBS Foods has contributed large sums to Evans’ campaigns.
By Jesse Valentine - May 18, 2026
The Republican congressman has taken more than $107,000 from groups that want to turn national parks into oil fields and housing developments.
By Jesse Valentine - May 14, 2026
The Iowa representative opposed a rule capping bank overdraft fees at $8.
By Jesse Valentine - May 13, 2026
Anthony Bland, a soybean farmer in the Mississippi Delta, told NPR that he spent $10,000 more on fertilizer this spring than last year.
By Jesse Valentine - May 13, 2026
Steen is a Republican candidate for Iowa governor.
By Jesse Valentine - May 12, 2026
Adair is running for Congress in Oregon’s 5th District.
By Jesse Valentine - May 12, 2026
More than 14% of Edwards’ constituents live below the poverty line.
By Jesse Valentine - May 08, 2026
Lawler also used campaign funds for a stay at the West Palm Beach Hilton.
By Jesse Valentine - May 06, 2026
Lombardo accepted thousands from a billionaire housing developer after vetoing new renter protections.
By Jesse Valentine - May 05, 2026
PFAS exposure in drinking water has been linked to cancers and birth defects.
By Jesse Valentine - May 04, 2026
Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie is not under investigation by the FBI and has not been charged with a crime.
By Jesse Valentine - May 04, 2026
The consultant boasted about how easy it is to access voters’ Facebook and Netflix IDs.
By Jesse Valentine - May 01, 2026
Bush, the cousin of the former president, is a Republican candidate for Maine governor.
By Jesse Valentine - May 01, 2026
Nine women were ready to head to court on April 27 after waiting three years to testify about how they almost died when they suffered severe pregnancy complications. The trial was just canceled. Here,lead plaintiff Allie Phillips speaks out.
By Bonnie Fuller - April 29, 2026
Collins has convened zero oversight hearings as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee
By Jesse Valentine - April 29, 2026
Jan. 6 rioters vandalized property and assaulted police officers. Garrity described them as “patriots.”
By Jesse Valentine - April 22, 2026
Mendoza is challenging Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani.
By Bonnie Fuller - April 21, 2026
President Joe Biden got 7 million more votes than Donald Trump
By Jesse Valentine - April 21, 2026
“Scott Perry voted for Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ more than a year ago, and now millions of Americans are losing their Medicaid, as are 310,000 Pennsylvanians,” Stelson said.
By Bonnie Fuller - April 17, 2026
Women have died in Georgia because of its strict abortion laws.
By Jesse Valentine - April 15, 2026
Buck said a law cutting prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients was a “disaster.”
By Jesse Valentine - April 15, 2026
The AARP says Husted’s proposal would be "devastating for millions of Americans.”
By Jesse Valentine - April 14, 2026
The law cuts Medicaid and raises utility rates. Barrett called it a “significant win.”
By Jesse Valentine - April 14, 2026
Sullivan’s wealth has grown by 176% since 2015.
By Jesse Valentine - April 14, 2026
Women in Arizona are no longer forced to go through a 24-hour period between scheduling and getting an abortion.
By Bonnie Fuller - April 13, 2026
High food costs and fewer benefits are forcing millions of Americans into desperate situations.
By Jesse Valentine - April 10, 2026
Collins has accepted more than $8.3 million from corporate PACs throughout her career.
By Jesse Valentine - April 09, 2026
Gas prices surged above for $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022.
By Jesse Valentine - April 08, 2026
Conservative influencers pushing “trad wife” ideals are making money by spreading false narratives about hormonal birth control—and doctors say it’s showing up in their exam rooms every day.
By Bonnie Fuller - April 07, 2026
Dozens of residents say the sheriff’s deputies tortured and sexually assaulted them.
By Jesse Valentine - April 06, 2026
The Republican congressman voted for legislation that will scale back clean energy projects and make electricity more expensive.
By Jesse Valentine - April 02, 2026
Taxes on imports have driven up retail costs by 7%.
By Jesse Valentine - April 02, 2026
“It’s not too late to change course and finally focus on what Americans actually care about,” the lawmakers said.
By Jesse Valentine - April 02, 2026
The Wisconsin Supreme Court election is April 7.
By Jesse Valentine - April 01, 2026
The Senate candidate previously worked for lobbyists tied to the oil and gas industry.
By Jesse Valentine - April 01, 2026
"My generation grew up believing that democracy works best when more people have a voice — and can freely use it. That leaders are accountable to voters, not the other way around. The SAVE America Act, and the broader pattern surrounding it, moves us in the opposite direction."
By Cole Leiter, Americans Against Government Censorship - April 01, 2026
Musk’s policy and personnel changes, as well as his open endorsement of right-wing conspiracy theories, has left Twitter, now X, overrun with trolls and bigots.
By Nick Vachon and Will Fritz - August 15, 2023
Cooke is hoping that her local roots will help her unseat the incumbent election-denying Republican.
By Nick Vachon - August 15, 2023
Three ideas have taken hold among progressive Democrats pushing for Supreme Court reform: ethics reform, term limits, and court expansion.
By Nick Vachon - August 08, 2023
The state's 19th-century abortion ban and gerrymandered legislative maps are facing legal challenges and could end up in front of Wisconsin's high court.
By Nick Vachon and Rebekah Sager - August 02, 2023
The Republican Party and conservative activists aren't shy about saying they don't support any legal protections for trans people.
By Nick Vachon - July 07, 2023
Organizers with a national public school advocacy campaign, joined by local activists, gave away books on Thursday to kick off a weekend of counterprogramming against Moms for Liberty's second annual gathering.
By Nick Vachon - June 30, 2023
Across the globe, policies similar to those championed by many in the GOP have gone hand in hand with illiberal and anti-democratic politics.
By Nick Vachon - June 26, 2023
Taking advantage of their newly minted majority, Democrats have achieved a longtime progressive policy goal.
By Nick Vachon - June 22, 2023
Amid public controversy over the scale of Thomas' financial ties to a conservative real estate magnate, a new poll of voters finds public support for congressional action.
By Nick Vachon - June 15, 2023
United for Democracy is putting cash behind growing calls from the left for Congress to rein in the Supreme Court and its conservative majority.
By Nick Vachon - June 14, 2023
The right has rallied behind the anti-trans slogan in their campaign against transgender rights.
By Nick Vachon - June 08, 2023
Experts say that Gen Z and millennial voters are highly invested in the political process because of their support for abortion rights and anxiety about the consequences of electing Republicans.
By Nick Vachon - 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
Legislation restricting transgender people's access to health care, school sports, and bathrooms has surged in Republican-controlled states, backed by major anti-LGBTQ groups.
By Nick Vachon - May 25, 2023
Extreme risk protection laws, which allow judges to confiscate weapons when they think owners could pose a danger to themselves or others, can be effective at preventing gun deaths.
By Nick Vachon - May 05, 2023
‘When it comes to in-state renewable energy generation, I’ve never been more optimistic,’ said Nick Hylla, executive director of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association.
By Nick Vachon - April 06, 2023
The court will have the final say in cases that could determine the 2024 election rules and the fate of the state’s 1849 abortion ban.
By Nick Vachon - April 05, 2023
The conservative candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court called government aid to single women a ‘husband-substitute program’ in a post on the website Hang Together
By Nick Vachon - April 04, 2023
Janet Protasiewicz and Daniel Kelly fought over their records on decisive issues that the court could rule on in the coming years, such as abortion and redistricting.
By Nick Vachon - March 23, 2023
The director of Common Cause Wisconsin, a government reform advocacy organization, says that the April Supreme Court election carries massive implications for democracy in the state and nationally.
By Nick Vachon - March 08, 2023
The national group is the latest reproductive rights organization to throw its support behind the liberal candidate in this year’s high-profile election.
By Nick Vachon - March 07, 2023
The conservative jurist has ties to anti-abortion groups and a long record of anti-abortion views.
By Nick Vachon - March 03, 2023
The departments of Justice and of Homeland Security have both identified white supremacist extremism as the leading domestic terrorism threat to the United States.
By Nick Vachon - February 27, 2023
The Biden administration has already provisioned $85 million for the region, which has been devastated by a series of earthquakes this month.
By Nick Vachon - February 24, 2023
At least six of the 100 law enforcement officers who endorsed Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in December have been accused of wrongdoing, including sexual harassment, retaliation, and jail deaths.
By Nick Vachon - February 13, 2023
The circuit court judge rose to national fame during the trial of the Waukesha Parade attack perpetrator, becoming a subject of viral TikTok content and a recipient of fan mail from around the world.
By Nick Vachon - February 07, 2023
The race will determine whether Wisconsin’s highest court has a liberal or a conservative majority, and could decide the fate of abortion and election law in the state.
By Nick Vachon - January 23, 2023
Potential 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has attracted interest from anti-LGBTQ and anti-vaccine activists, among other conservative Republicans.
By Nick Vachon - January 18, 2023
Of the 231 corporations who pledged to halt or reexamine their political contributions in the wake of the insurrection, more than two-thirds have resumed their financial support for congressional election deniers.
By Nick Vachon - January 11, 2023
The race could determine whether liberals or conservatives have the majority on the court, which has implications for a slew of contentious issues and the 2024 presidential election.
By Nick Vachon - January 06, 2023Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .