Republicans are losing their midterm advantage, new polling finds
Registered voters generally prefer Democrats over Republicans on the congressional ballot, according to a recent USA Today/Suffolk University poll.
By Josh Israel - January 04, 2022Registered voters generally prefer Democrats over Republicans on the congressional ballot, according to a recent USA Today/Suffolk University poll.
By Josh Israel - January 04, 2022The House minority leader is falsely blaming Democrats for the problems his party helped perpetuate.
By Josh Israel - January 03, 2022Just one GOP lawmaker joined the Democrats in voting to keep paying the federal government’s bills.
By Josh Israel - December 15, 2021State Sen. Amanda Chase announced her campaign to challenge Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) on Wednesday.
By Nick Vachon - November 17, 2021The Biden administration wants the VA to provide gender-affirming surgery it says would ‘save lives.’ Republicans want to stop it.
By Casey Quinlan - October 14, 2021The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world with no paid family leave plan.
By Oliver Willis - October 14, 2021Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) claimed research on gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors ‘harms kids,’ but studies have shown otherwise.
By Casey Quinlan - September 24, 2021The ‘sandwich generation’ is overwhelmed caring for both their children and parents simultaneously.
By Julie Hart - September 21, 2021Republicans in Congress are now complaining that undocumented people entering the country are not required to get a COVID-19 vaccine first.
By Josh Israel - September 20, 2021‘Getting misgendered, being housed in the wrong place, being turned away because they’re wearing the wrong clothes … those sorts of things are particular challenges for this group.’
By Casey Quinlan - September 10, 2021A look at what the panel is asking for, why lawmakers want it, and the potential legal issues surrounding the request.
By Associated Press - September 04, 2021‘I don’t want anyone else to have to go through what I went through, ever,’ said Rep. Cori Bush.
By Associated Press - August 07, 2021Former Chief Justice Roger Taney authored the 1857 Supreme Court decision that stated Black Americans could not be citizens.
By Josh Israel - June 30, 2021FBI data shows background checks blocked nearly twice as many gun sales in 2020 as in the year before.
By Associated Press - June 27, 2021‘Happy Pride. Now, abolish the damn filibuster and pass the Equality Act,’ tweeted Rep. Mondaire Jones.
By Casey Quinlan - June 16, 2021Vicky Hartzler has a long history of opposing LGBTQ rights, including the Equality Act.
By Casey Quinlan - June 11, 2021Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) thinks ‘religious liberty’ should allow for discrimination against LGBTQ people.
By Casey Quinlan - June 04, 2021Lawmakers say it’s time to end the racist exclusion of farmworkers from the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Amy Lieu - May 13, 2021The president will lay out his $1.8 trillion proposal, which includes universal preschool, two years of free community college, and monthly $250 payments for parents.
By Associated Press - April 28, 2021Fifty-five of America’s biggest companies paid no income tax at all last year.
By Donna Provencher - April 08, 2021Democrats are reportedly considering using budget reconciliation to allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug costs.
By Josh Israel - March 23, 2021Many of the refugees had sold their belongings and left places they were renting and now are scrambling to find another place to stay.
By Associated Press - March 05, 2021Capitol Police have requested tens of millions of dollars in funding as a direct result of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
By Emily Singer - March 03, 2021The goal: to make sure at least something gets passed.
By Amy Lieu - February 23, 2021‘It has been infuriating how casually our community continues to be dismissed,’ one expert says.
By Amy Lieu - February 15, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would introduce legislation to award Goodman and his fellow Capitol Police officers who responded to the Jan. 6 riots.
By Amy Lieu - February 12, 2021One of the measures would lift hundreds of thousands out of poverty.
By Amy Lieu - February 09, 2021The House voted to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments.
By Josh Israel - February 04, 2021Recent CDC reports show a troubling lack of data on the matter.
By Amy Lieu - February 02, 2021New analysis shows both populations make up just a small percentage of the 117th Congress, though they’ve made important strides in recent years.
By Amy Lieu - January 29, 2021