Russell Coleman has taken tens of thousands of dollars from Big Tobacco and toxic polluters.

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The public overwhelmingly supports red flag laws, which allow law enforcement to prevent gun violence by temporarily confiscating guns from someone who poses a risk to themselves or others.

North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson attacked Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein for winning over a billion dollars in restitution from pharmaceutical companies.

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.

A county judge issued a temporary restraining order against Missouri’s Republican Attorney General preventing his emergency order from going into effect for at least another two weeks.

Officials in Washington, California, New York and Massachusetts have announced purchases of mifepristone and misoprostol.

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.

State Rep. Donna Rozar made the comment while introducing a bill to create rape and incest exceptions for Wisconsin’s draconian ban on abortion.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron called the Pregnancy Help Center, which seeks to convince pregnant people not to get abortions, ‘an amazing resource.’

Karamo is an anti-abortion and anti-vaccine extremist who lost the 2022 Michigan secretary of state election.

Wisconsin Democrats have vowed to continue viewing April’s judicial contest as a ‘de-facto referendum’ on abortion rights.

Two-time losing candidate Leon Benjamin will again try to win the seat left open by the death of Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin.

The Supreme Court of the United States may allow Republican-led state legislatures across the country to bypass other branches of their state’s government when it comes to regulating elections for federal office.

Despite several investigations led by Republicans in GOP-led states, there has yet to be any proof of election fraud from the midterms and most election results are being certified without issue.

‘If I was in that position, I probably would concede,’ former Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer told the New York Times.

Healey and her running mate, Kim Driscoll, were also one of the two all-women gubernatorial tickets that won election this year.

‘We’ve always known this will be a close election and we have too much at stake to take anything for granted,’ the Michigan governor said on Oct. 29.

Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf is under investigation for allegedly tampering with voting machines.

Republican candidate for Michigan secretary of state Kristina Karamo has filed a last-minute lawsuit targeting Wayne County’s absentee voting procedures.

Matt DePerno stated he agreed with the definition of marriage as “a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman” that the government does not have the “authority to alter.”

A federal investigation into allegations that Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton abused his powers began in 2020.

Daylen Howard hired a political operative who is behind dark money groups pouring millions into multiple ballot drives.

The Republican nominees for governor, secretary of state, and attorney general in Michigan have denied the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election results.

An August press release from Paxton’s office said he is protecting the Second Amendment from President Biden, but Biden didn’t create the ban.

Republican nominee for Kansas governor Derek Schmidt, the state’s longest-serving attorney general, has troubling ties to the fiscally disastrous governorship of Sam Brownback and faces a popular Democratic incumbent in November.

Abraham Hamadeh said he would enforce the state’s total ban on abortion at a time when most voters believe it should be legal to some degree.

The Nevada Republican took the legal maximum from Curtis Debord, who was indicted for illegal weapons trafficking in the late 1990s.

‘That wasn’t a joke,’ the Republican nominee for Michigan governor told a crowd at an event alongside Kellyanne Conway in defense of remarks she made about Whitmer.

Sigal Chattah has previously suggested there should be legal consequences for people who have abortions.