Rand Paul went all in on the Kentucky governor’s race. It didn’t work.
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, 2023Even the Republican senator's home county gave Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear a larger share of the vote than four years earlier.
By - December 15, 2023Republican state Sen. Robby Mills is facing scrutiny for his anti-abortion views.
By Josh Israel - October 13, 2023Terry Forcht has been a top financial backer of Republican Kentucky governor candidate Daniel Cameron.
By Josh Israel - October 05, 2023The Kentucky Republican said he would only allow rape and incest abortion exceptions if courts forced him.
By Emily Singer - September 29, 2023Both gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron and his running mate Robby Mills backed efforts to eliminate guaranteed pension benefits for some Kentucky teachers.
By Josh Israel - August 07, 2023State Sen. Robby Mills has a history of legislative efforts against public education, voting rights, and LGBTQ people.
By Will Fritz - August 02, 2023State Sen. Robby Mills later introduced a second successful bill that limits which forms of voter ID are acceptable in Kentucky.
By Josh Israel - July 27, 2023The Kentucky attorney general, who is running for governor, attacked Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear over the temporary rules he once endorsed as needed to ‘slow the spread and to flatten the curve’ of COVID-19.
By Josh Israel - July 24, 2023Daniel Cameron won Tuesday’s primary and will face Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear in November.
By Josh Israel - May 17, 2023‘Going through the wrong puberty, every day your body is a little bit farther from what feels like you,’ one trans teenager said. ‘And eventually, you don’t even recognize yourself in the mirror.’
By Associated Press - March 29, 2023State lawmakers could override Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of the bill banning discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation in schools next week.
By Associated Press - March 25, 2023Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron called the Pregnancy Help Center, which seeks to convince pregnant people not to get abortions, ‘an amazing resource.’
By Emily Singer - February 24, 2023An overview of six of the 12 states with strict abortion bans after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision shows the drastic effects anti-abortion policies can have.
By Lisa Needham - August 31, 2022Conservatives continue to use so-called ‘parental rights’ bills as a weapon against LGTBQ people.
By Casey Quinlan - June 01, 2022The bill is being denounced as a ‘blatant and extremely partisan power grab.’
By Associated Press - March 30, 2021Gov. Andy Beshear has filed suit against Kentucky House and Senate leadership to have their moves declared unconstitutional.
By Emily Singer - February 03, 2021Petitions have been filed calling for the impeachment of the state’s governor and attorney general.
By Associated Press - February 01, 2021Conservatives in Kentucky couldn’t get their act together as they tried to push several new abortion restrictions through the state Legislature.
By Lisa Needham - April 30, 2020Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg graces the cover of Time magazine and voting rights take the spotlight in Kentucky.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 13, 2019A new executive order by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear will restore rights to those with nonviolent felony convictions, who previously lost their ability to vote.
By Josh Israel - December 12, 2019The judge who sentenced the man said he had ‘never seen a more compelling or complete case’ in his 30 years on the bench.
By Emily Singer - December 12, 2019Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam has put on Virginia’s attempt to impose a work requirement on Medicaid expansion beneficiaries on hold.
By Josh Israel - December 05, 2019Kentucky voters replaced their unpopular governor last month with Democrat Andy Beshear.
By Josh Israel - December 04, 2019Kentucky voters ousted their Republican governor and elected Democrat Andy Beshear, and the GOP-controlled legislature is not happy about it.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 26, 2019Kentuckians voted earlier this month to make Attorney General Andy Beshear the next governor of Kentucky.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 14, 2019Republican Matt Bevin lost the Kentucky governor race to Democrat Andy Beshear, but is refusing to concede.
By Associated Press - November 13, 2019Kentucky Republican Senate President Robert Stivers now wants Gov. Matt Bevin to just concede the race.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 08, 2019‘There’s nobody who thinks he won the election. We counted the votes, and he lost.’
By Dan Desai Martin - November 08, 2019Kentucky voters want Gov. Matt Bevin ousted, but Kentucky’s Republican Senate leader says he has a way to overturn the will of the voters.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 06, 2019With virtually all votes counted in Kentucky, Democratic challenger Andy Beshear leads incumbent Republican Gov. Matt Bevin by more than 5,000.
By Josh Israel - November 06, 2019