Federal judge blocks Tennessee from criminalizing voter registration drives
Tennessee tried to criminalize voter registration, but Judge Aleta Trauger wasn’t having it.
By Lisa Needham - September 12, 2019Tennessee tried to criminalize voter registration, but Judge Aleta Trauger wasn’t having it.
By Lisa Needham - September 12, 2019Tennessee passed a law that would civilly fine and criminally penalize people who conduct voter registration drives, but a coalition of plaintiffs is fighting back.
By Lisa Needham - August 20, 2019Tennessee state Rep. Bill Sanderson, an anti-LGBTQ Republican, resigned suddenly amid allegations he was using Grindr to solicit sex from men.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 25, 2019Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is about to sign a bill that would all but end early voting on college campuses.
By Emily Singer - June 25, 2019Craig Northcott, a conservative district attorney in Coffee County, Tennessee, refuses to prosecute domestic violence cases for same-sex couples because ‘there’s no marriage to protect.’
By Lisa Needham - June 05, 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, 2019Republicans in Tennessee are attacking LGBT rights and equality, but members of the clergy are standing up to stop them.
By Oliver Willis - March 19, 2019Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) announced he will not seek re-election in 2020.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 17, 2018Rep.-elect Mark Green (R-NC), a doctor, publicly embraces the debunked conspiracy theory that vaccines may lead to autism.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 14, 2018Trump’s reckless trade war could actually help turn the Senate blue.
By Eric Boehlert - July 09, 2018“It’s close. It’s very close,” Trump said of the Tennessee Senate race.
By Eric Boehlert - May 31, 2018If Rep. Marsha Blackburn thinks campaigning with Trump will boost her chances in the Tennessee Senate race, she might want to take another look at the polls.
By Eric Boehlert - May 29, 2018Rep. Marsha Blackburn blasted her Democratic opponent for legalizing driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. But it was actually done by her state’s Republican governor — who is trying to get her elected.
By Matthew Chapman - May 15, 2018Once again, Trump is on his way to deep red country to bail out a struggling Republican.
By Matthew Chapman - May 15, 2018Tennessee Republicans just can’t bring themselves to say neo-Nazis are bad.
By Oliver Willis - April 04, 2018Republicans realized their plan to take poor people’s health care away was actually expensive. So they want to pay for it by cutting welfare, too.
By Matthew Chapman - March 30, 2018Republicans in Kentucky and Tennessee are conflicted on whether marrying kids is acceptable.
By Matthew Chapman - March 08, 2018Desperate to hold onto the Senate, Republicans want Bob Corker to get back in the race as polls show the current GOP frontrunner losing to a Democrat.
By Matthew Chapman - February 12, 2018