Rising hunger rates pose new risks for Republican Senate candidates
High food costs and fewer benefits are forcing millions of Americans into desperate situations.
By Jesse Valentine - April 10, 2026
High food costs and fewer benefits are forcing millions of Americans into desperate situations.
By Jesse Valentine - April 10, 2026
Collins has accepted more than $8.3 million from corporate PACs throughout her career.
By Jesse Valentine - April 09, 2026
Gas prices surged above for $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022.
By Jesse Valentine - April 08, 2026
Republicans are campaigning on cutting costs, but some of their biggest donors are responsible for rising prices.
By Jesse Valentine - February 26, 2026
The SAVE Act could jeopardize ballot access for more than 21 million legal voters. Collins wants it to become law.
By Jesse Valentine - February 23, 2026
Collins is considered the most vulnerable Senate Republican facing reelection next year.
By Jesse Valentine - November 24, 2025
Collins is widely considered the most vulnerable Senate Republican up for reelection next year.
By Jesse Valentine - October 28, 2025
Tickets to attend Collins L.A. fundraiser range from $3,500 to $10,000
By Jesse Valentine - September 10, 2025
A study to improve rural health care in Maine is currently on ice.
By Jesse Valentine - August 06, 2025
Two Republicans joined Democrats to reject a proposal that would have limited the ability of the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer abortion care.
By Associated Press - April 23, 2023
Every Republican, plus Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, voted to block the Women’s Health Protection Act.
By Josh Israel - May 11, 2022
Christina Nolan has been trying to present herself as someone who would not rubber-stamp McConnell’s far-right agenda.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2022
According to GOP lawmakers, nominating a Black woman to the court would simply be filling ‘quotas.’
By Josh Israel - January 31, 2022
Conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett have both said their personal opinions wouldn’t affect their decisions on laws concerning abortion. But their comments during a recent hearing are telling a different story.
By Associated Press - December 03, 2021
The Republican senator calls herself ‘pro-choice,’ but she continues to back Supreme Court justices who let an extreme Texas abortion ban stand.
By Josh Israel - October 07, 2021
But Susan Collins still supports Senate Republicans’ obstruction.
By Josh Israel - October 05, 2021
But every Republican present voted against the House bill that would protect abortion rights.
By Josh Israel - September 24, 2021
The Maine Republican has said she’s ‘always been pro-choice,’ but she’s refusing to act to protect abortion rights in red states.
By Josh Israel - September 23, 2021
President Joe Biden offered to cut about a quarter of the spending out of the American Jobs Plan.
By Josh Israel - May 24, 2021
Republicans are against nearly everything President Joe Biden deems needed.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2021
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said Democrats would have an ‘easy win’ with President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill — if they’d just cut out the two-thirds of it Republicans don’t like.
By Donna Provencher - April 05, 2021
The Interior Department oversees the nation’s public lands and waters and leads relations with nearly 600 federally recognized tribes.
By Associated Press - March 03, 2021
‘Senator Collins is an independent thinker, who never hesitates to do what she believes is right,’ the chair of the Maine Republican Party wrote, once upon a time.
By Josh Israel - February 15, 2021
Republicans were aghast at the lack of a coherent argument from Donald Trump’s legal team — yet almost every single GOP Senator sided with the bad legal theory anyway.
By Emily Singer - February 10, 2021
Progressive groups note that the existing system lets the Senate minority ‘nullify the results of the election and block progress on popular legislation.’
By Josh Israel - February 09, 2021
GOP senators introduce a bill cutting the amount of proposed COVID relief to $618 billion.
By Donna Provencher - February 01, 2021
Democrats are moving forward with plans to pass coronavirus relief that Senate Republicans cannot block.
By Emily Singer - January 29, 2021
Mitch McConnell is refusing to put desperately needed virus relief up for a vote.
By Emily Singer - December 11, 2020
Republican senators are saying mean tweets posted by a Biden nominee disqualify her, but they accept mean things Donald Trump has tweeted about them.
By Emily Singer - December 02, 2020
It’s been two weeks since the election.
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