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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
Ivanka Trump followed her father to the White House, consistent with Trump family tradition, and both have consistently used their positions for personal gain. Among her most creative abuses of her role — also consistent with Trump family tradition — is her effort to use her White House role to escape legal accountability. Her latest […]
By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza - September 23, 2017
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has been holding the line against Donald Trump’s repeated lies about the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s interference in our election. Contrary to Trump’s claims, the FBI, CIA, and NSA agree that Russia set out to undermine the election, to smear Hillary Clinton, and generally do their damnedest to get Trump in […]
By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza - September 23, 2017
Special counsel Robert Mueller began investigating Donald Trump in June 2017 for obstruction of justice, as part of his probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. But it wasn’t until early August or shortly before that Mueller began requesting documents from the White House. Those initial requests, though, were confined to briefly tenured National Security […]
By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza - September 20, 2017
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley could have offered any number of statements, however misguided, to explain his support for the Republicans’ devastating repeal bill. Instead, Grassley made a candid confession about why his party’s pushing so hard. “Republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the […]
By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza - September 20, 2017
Donald Trump’s secretary for Health and Human Services, former Georgia Rep. Tom Price, once called congressional spending on private jets “just another example of fiscal irresponsibly irresponsibility run amok.” The number of jets Price thought Congress should be able to use? Zero. Yet in just two days, from Sept. 13 to 15, Price spent $60,000 […]
By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza - September 20, 2017