The 2023-2024 state budget also provides free lunches to all students previously eligible for reduced-cost lunches.

A Democratic state lawmaker introduced a pair of bills that would make it a crime punishable by up to five years in prison to intimidate a poll worker or election clerk.

Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul said in a lawsuit that Senate Republicans don't have the authority to oust Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe and accused them of attacking the state's elections.

Virginia House of Delegates GOP nominee Peters said incorrectly that a 15-week abortion ban is widely popular in the commonwealth.

Dunnavant is facing Democrat Schuyler VanValkenburg in the election for Virginia's 16th state Senate District in November.

Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro signed the funding increase into law in August, but Republicans in the Legislature are blocking bills required to authorize payments.

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'No one should have to choose between being there for their family and a paycheck,' Whitmer said in a speech.

Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature ignored calls for gun safety laws from the parents of survivors of the mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville.

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In 2017, Gov. Scott Walker made a deal with the Taiwan-based multinational electronics manufacturer to bring thousands of jobs to Wisconsin. Six years later, few of those jobs have materialized.

The ruling will force families of trans youth to take their children out of state for health care.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed new laws to strengthen Michigan’s gun safety legislation earlier this year. Democratic lawmakers in the Legislature plan to pass more bills.

Republican Siobhan Dunnavant opposed creating a prescription drug affordability board to make medicine more affordable for Virginians.

The city filed a lawsuit against the two largest ghost gun suppliers in the country.

It's the latest lawsuit based on election lies repeated by former President Donald Trump that has failed in court.

Most of the Republicans nominated to run in November are white and male.

The GOP-controlled Wisconsin Legislature is proposing a budget bill with a $3.5 billion income tax cut that would benefit high earners more than it would lower earners.

State Sen. Joe Morrissey lost his primary run for reelection Tuesday night against Del. Lashrecse Aird in a campaign focused on abortion rights.

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.

Conservatives in the one-house Nebraska Legislature announced early this month that they would amend the trans health bill to squeeze in the abortion restrictions, combining the two most contentious measures of the session.

The Safety in Private Spaces Act would allow trans people to be criminally charged for using certain bathrooms.

In South Carolina, five female lawmakers, including three Republicans, led the filibuster that defeated the bill.

'The attack in Montana on Rep. Zephyr is an attack on all of us,' said Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt.

Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr was not allowed to speak at all during sessions this week in the state's House of Representatives, including on anti-trans bills that the Republican majority is seeking to pass.

H.B. 1469, which would protect those who travel to Washington for health care services from legal repercussions in other states, now goes to Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee for his signature.

State Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were accused of ‘disorderly behavior’ for chanting in support of gun safety legislation after a Nashville school shooting left six dead.

Wisconsin is one of just 11 states that haven’t expanded health care coverage to low-income Americans under the Affordable Care Act.

Republican lawmakers want to cut taxes for the rich, ban books from schools, and pass anti-abortion legislation.

Republican Juan Pablo Segura kicked off his campaign by attacking school equity efforts and using an antisemitic trope to attack progressive prosecutors.