This week in wins: New Jersey restores voting rights for 80,000 people
New Jersey took positive steps to restore voting rights, and Virginia is poised to make progress on the same issue in the new year.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 20, 2019New Jersey took positive steps to restore voting rights, and Virginia is poised to make progress on the same issue in the new year.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 20, 2019‘I don’t want to politicize his death,’ Rep. Debbie Dingell said after Trump attacked her late husband because of her impeachment vote.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 19, 2019Abortion rights advocates also scored a big win in Alabama and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers moved to protect marginalized communities ahead of the 2020 census.
By Nick Vachon - November 01, 2019The lawsuit targets Michigan’s signature match requirement for absentee ballots.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 30, 2019Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have suffered massive cuts since January.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 22, 2019As Republican challengers line up to battle Trump, states like Michigan are changing the rules to protect him.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 16, 2019The DCCC named Lucinda Guinn as the group’s first Latina executive director, and wins in New Jersey and Michigan are bright spots to celebrate.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 13, 2019The Michigan Republican Party is suing the state over a non-partisan redistricting measure that was decisively approved by voters.
By Lisa Needham - August 23, 2019Voters kicked him out of Wisconsin in 2018, so Scott Walker is taking his sore loser campaign to another state.
By Lisa Needham - July 31, 2019Anti-choice groups in Michigan have found a way to bypass both the people and the governor in their zeal to ban abortion.
By Lisa Needham - June 11, 2019While Trump was creating diplomatic disasters, Democrats were passing landmark legislation and blocking extremist GOP laws in states across the country.
By Emily Singer - June 07, 2019Trump is deeply unpopular in half a dozen must-win swing states ahead of the 2020 election.
By Emily Singer - June 05, 2019Voters in Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are sick of Trump’s anti-immigrant policies.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 21, 2019Michigan state Rep. Larry Inman allegedly sent text messages asking for campaign donations in return for his vote on a wage bill.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 15, 2019For years, the Michigan GOP has held on to power thanks to extreme partisan gerrymandering in the state. A new court ruling means that’s about to change.
By Lisa Needham - April 26, 2019Republicans in the Kansas legislature are the latest GOP group to strip power from duly elected Democratic governors.
By Emily Singer - April 17, 2019‘What the [expletive] were we thinking?’
By Caroline Orr - January 22, 2019Michigan Republicans have spent the lame duck session defying the will of the voters, but trying to strip power from the incoming secretary of state was so bad, even they realized it.
By Lisa Needham - December 20, 2018New polling shows that a vast majority of Michigan voters — including Republican voters — supported the paid sick leave and minimum wage initiatives.
By Lisa Needham - December 18, 2018The behavior of the Michigan GOP throughout this lame-duck session has been reprehensible and anti-democratic — and they know it.
By Lisa Needham - December 17, 2018Ballot measures let voters have a say, and Republicans in Michigan don’t like that.
By Lisa Needham - December 12, 2018State Sen. Rick Jones wants people to believe getting rid of paid sick leave is the best way to help the Michigan workforce.
By Lisa Needham - December 10, 2018Michigan Republicans have used the lame-duck legislative session to thwart the will of voters — and the Michigan press is calling them out.
By Lisa Needham - December 06, 2018Republican lawmakers in Michigan are trying to torpedo a voting-rights ballot proposal overwhelmingly approved by voters.
By Lisa Needham - December 05, 2018Michigan Republicans are using the lame-duck session to undermine the will of the voters, but people are fighting back.
By Lisa Needham - December 04, 2018The GOP majority in Michigan wants to weaken the supervision of dark money and fraudulent charities before the new Democratic attorney general is seated.
By Lisa Needham - December 03, 2018Michigan Republicans are hoping to undermine the role of newly elected Attorney General Dana Nessel in the lame-duck session.
By Lisa Needham - November 30, 2018It only took one day of the lame-duck session for Michigan Republicans to start gutting the state’s paid sick leave and minimum wage laws.
By Lisa Needham - November 29, 2018Michigan Republicans say employers need protection from the state’s sick leave law.
By Lisa Needham - November 28, 2018If a big-money conservative donor gets his way during the lame-duck session, Michigan could create a two-tier police system — one for the rich, and one for everyone else.
By Lisa Needham - November 27, 2018