Georgia’s Asian American lawmakers work overtime to help AAPI voters ahead of runoffs
‘Let’s show the rest of the country that Asian voters are a force to be reckoned with.’
By Amy Lieu - December 30, 2020‘Let’s show the rest of the country that Asian voters are a force to be reckoned with.’
By Amy Lieu - December 30, 2020Nearly 200 legislators nationwide have tested positive for the virus and four have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
By Associated Press - November 27, 2020The new laws seek to reduce racial disparities in maternal deaths and protect Black job applicants and employees from discrimination.
By Donna Provencher - October 11, 2020After Trump commuted Rod Blagojevich’s sentence, he will now host a fundraiser celebrating Trump’s renomination.
By Josh Israel - August 17, 2020His Democratic colleagues say state Rep. Andrew Lewis waited a week before telling them he had tested positive for the virus.
By Associated Press - May 29, 2020Republicans in multiple states across the country are trying to override their governors’ social distancing orders — ignoring expert advice on how to stop the novel coronavirus.
By Emily Singer - April 16, 2020Social distancing mandates intended to slow the spread of the virus have upended life for millions of Americans and have led lawmakers to scrap centuries-old rules about the way they conduct work.
By Associated Press - March 31, 2020Pennsylvania state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz was criticized after introducing a resolution calling for a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer to solve the ongoing outbreak.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 25, 2020Republican Dennis Bonnen announced he would leave the Texas House of Representatives after dozens of his colleagues urged him to ‘move on.’
By Josh Israel - October 22, 2019Pennsylvania state Sen. Mike Folmer, a Republican, resigned Wednesday after being arrested for child pornography possession.
By Josh Israel - September 18, 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, 2019The vast majority of Americans understand that abortion is health care, and health care is not a crime.
By Emily Crockett - May 21, 2019In 2018, voters in Missouri overwhelmingly supported a ballot referendum increasing the fairness of the redistricting process. Now the GOP wants a do-over.
By Lisa Needham - May 08, 2019An insidious new trend is emerging from Republican-held state legislatures in response to a surge of new Democratic voters in 2018.
By Emily Singer - April 30, 2019Iowa’s Democratic attorney general has joined in lawsuits against the Trump administration — and the state GOP can’t stand it.
By Lisa Needham - April 23, 2019A Delaware Republican wants to make ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ a reality for American women.
By Emily Singer - April 16, 2019New 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, 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, 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, 2018In a shameful plot to avoid the will of the voters, Michigan Republicans passed a law raising the minimum wage just so they could gut it in the lame-duck session before a new Democratic governor takes over.
By Lisa Needham - November 21, 2018Minnesota state Rep. Sarah Anderson of House District 44A likes to talk about standing up for families, but her voting record tells a different story.
By Bernie Dennler III - October 21, 2018New York state Sen. Jeff Klein’s newfound ‘support’ for the New York Health Act doesn’t mean much after he helped to make sure it never got a vote.
By Bernie Dennler III - September 11, 2018Members of a rogue group of elected Democrats in New York got special bonuses for betraying their party.
By Bernie Dennler III - September 07, 2018New York Democrats who collaborated with the state GOP are hoping primary voters will look past their devil’s bargain with the Republicans.
By Bernie Dennler III - September 05, 2018Republican candidate Russell Walker has stated “God is a racist and a white supremacist” and Jewish people “descend from Satan.”
By Matthew Chapman - June 28, 2018Scott Walker is scared Democrats will pick off seats in Wisconsin. So he’s refusing to allow special elections at all.
By Matthew Chapman - February 27, 2018The saga of Kentucky’s House District 49 shows anything is possible — even deep in Trump country.
By Matthew Chapman - February 20, 2018“That’s kind of like a big screw you.”
By Matthew Chapman - February 20, 2018“Beneath the Idaho Senate.”
By Matthew Chapman - February 20, 2018