Minnesota House candidates take far-right stances on birth control and vaccines
Every seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives is up for election this year.
By Jesse Valentine - November 04, 2024State Legislature
The Michigan Supreme Court overturned a Republican attempt to gut a paid sick leave law.
By Jesse Valentine - November 01, 2024The partisan split in the Michigan House of Representatives will be decided in the Nov. 5 election.
By Jesse Valentine - October 28, 2024Several of the candidates have the support of Moms for Liberty, a far-right group that has pushed for book bans.
By Jesse Valentine - October 25, 2024Some pro-voucher lawmakers pushed for the Bible to be taught in elementary schools.
By Jesse Valentine - October 23, 2024A Republican candidate for the Minnesota House said he believes abortion should be limited, and expressed openness to abortion bans after the 5th or 6th week of pregnancy
By Madison McVan, Minnesota Reformer - October 08, 2024Democrats currently hold a slim majority in the Michigan legislature.
By Jesse Valentine - September 30, 2024Moses has repeatedly sponsored and supported bills that sought to cut safety net programs
By Jesse Valentine - September 27, 2024At a Republican fundraiser in Mankato, the candidate for Minnesota House District 18A, Erica Schwartz, gave a speech promising to promote tough-on-crime policies and advocate for lower taxes.
By Madison McVan, Minnesota Reformer - September 10, 2024Kathleen Fowke, the Republican candidate running in the November special election for Senate District 45, last year received a homestead property tax break for a property she doesn’t live in and outside the district she hopes to represent.
By Michelle Griffith, Minnesota Reformer - September 10, 2024The Florida Planned Parenthood PAC announced its first round of endorsements for the state Legislature Monday, saying those candidates would fight attacks on Floridians’ reproductive freedom.
By Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix - July 19, 2024The Nevada Senate Republican Caucus-backed candidate hoping to unseat Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro describes herself on her website as having “a pragmatic and results-oriented approach” but has previously identified herself as a member of a right-wing Christian organization.
By April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Current - May 20, 2024Senate Republicans united late Thursday night in almost certainly defeating legislation that would have added New Hampshire to the list of 47 states that provide records of psychiatric hospitalization commitments for gun background checks.
By Annmarie Timmins, New Hampshire Bulletin - May 17, 2024In special elections on Tuesday, state House Democratic candidates Peter Herzberg and Mai Xiong scored victories in two Southeast Michigan districts to help secure a 56-54 voting majority for their caucus.
By Ken Coleman, Michigan Advance - April 17, 2024Measure, opposed by every Republican and 9 Democrats, heads to Senate
By Sara Wilson, Colorado Newsline - April 14, 2024‘Your remarks were extremely offensive and intentionally harmful to the victims and the families of the Lewiston tragedy, the House of Representatives, and the people of Maine,’ wrote Speaker Talbot Ross
By Evan Popp, Maine Morning Star - April 11, 2024Covenant parents emotional in wake of vote
By Sam Stockard, Tennessee Lookout - April 10, 2024Maine legislators split mostly along party lines to back bills for a waiting period, background checks, and limits on rapid firing devices
By Annmarie Hilton, Maine Morning Star - March 28, 2024New Hampshire lawmakers are inching closer to creating a statewide election portal, a bipartisan proposal that would allow residents to register to vote online.
By Ethan DeWitt, New Hampshire Bulletin - March 15, 2024Alabama House Democrats filed a bill in the House last week to protect access to birth control.
By Alander Rocha, Alabama Reflector - March 13, 2024The parents of children killed in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting have a stark warning for Utah lawmakers: “It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when and where the next school shooting will happen.”
By Kyle Dunphey, Utah News Dispatch - February 21, 2024Two new education bills have been introduced by Democrats in the Ohio House: One to ensure school meals for any students who request them, and another to increase base teacher salaries to $50,000 per year. The future of the proposed laws is uncertain with Republican supermajorities controlling both the Ohio House and Ohio Senate.
By Susan Tebben, Ohio Capital Journal - February 15, 2024Watchdogs and Republicans say power is concentrated in too few hands in Trenton
By Dana DiFilippo, New Jersey Monitor - February 15, 2024GOP lawmakers are continuing to advance anti-trans proposals under the guise of protecting women and minors despite the threat of a veto from Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs.
By Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror - February 14, 2024Lawmakers are weighing an array of pharmacy bills this session that could rein in prescription prices and allow pharmacists to treat people for COVID-19
By Ben Botkin, Oregon Capital Chronicle - February 12, 2024As amendments aimed at legalizing abortion in cases of rape or incest were voted down, one Republican state senator defended the decision saying, ‘God does not make mistakes’
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent and Rudi Keller, Missouri Independent - February 08, 2024Bills address abortion pills, civil lawsuits and helping minors seek the procedure
By Carmen Forman, Oklahoma Voice - February 02, 2024Of 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, 2024Assembly Republicans passed a bill on Thursday that would ask voters to decide whether Wisconsin would implement a 14-week abortion ban, tightening the state’s current 20-week abortion ban.
By Baylor Spears, Wisconsin Examiner - January 26, 2024Added as an amendment in committee, a public hearing on the proposal has not taken place in the Senate this year
By Annelise Hanshaw, Missouri Independent - January 24, 2024Measure opposed by VP Kamala Harris, Wisconsin Democrats, physicians and anti-abortion groups
By Baylor Spears, Wisconsin Examiner - January 23, 2024