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The high-stakes, low-profile battles that will define 2024
Grinch Governors Go Scrooge on Schoolchildren
BREAKING: Infamous GOP gerrymander struck down
The Best Political News of 2023: Part 2
On Colorado and the Supreme Court, acquiescence has consequences
The Best Political News of 2023: Part 1
Florida GOP ignores "parents' rights," votes to put children to work late into the night
Texas's Freaky Anti-Abortion Justice Gets a Last-Minute Challenger
GOP cynics use antisemitism to push racist school agenda
Direct democracy on the line in Michigan
The coming crackdown on conservative cruelty
The GOP's war on starving Americans ramps up
Long Con: How the GOP is trying to end democracy from the inside
Ohio Republicans fire away at the Constitution
The National War on NIMBYism Has Arrived
Still thankful, still fighting for the people
A guide to your Thanksgiving political debate
After the US’s worst book ban, these teachers and kids took down Moms for Liberty
Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott humiliated themselves
Exclusive: Moms for Liberty's Failure Was Even Worse Than Reported
Ohio Republicans Can’t Just Take the L
Another shocking election night
The Biggest Elections That Nobody’s Discussing
Israel's war puts the Democratic Party at a crossroads
Caring for kids is a moral and political winner
A genius way to fight far-right book bans
Workers' big week, far-right freaks, and DeSantis gets dumped
A GOP health care scam flops even harder than expected
Americans really, really want to avoid war
Jim Jordan shouldn’t have gotten that far
Democracy is on fire in North Carolina
What's at stake in Israel right now
Voting rights and wrongs in a busy week for democracy
Massive win: Ohio high court tosses drag ban from the ballot
War in the Midwest, War in the Middle East
Americans demand big Supreme Court changes
Blue state blues and solid abortion news
A DeSantis ally’s anti-LGBTQ+ rant hints at the GOP game plan
Leadership failed Dianne Feinstein — and us
Free speech showdown and the future of small-town America
Do it for the children (and the votes)
Celebrating good news and bad scandals
Don’t let good scandals go to waste
The first big election of 2024 starts on Friday
The surprising way paychecks influence political voting
Supreme power-grabs are underway
Exposing the Shadowy Far-Right’s Next Targets
As Nazis swarm Florida, Ron DeSantis and staff still refuse to condemn them
A good week for reproductive rights and workers
Wisconsin Republicans are trying to save their gerrymander by bullying
The fate of a state rests with 20 votes and a doomsday preacher
Republicans expose their dark plan to demolish free society
A critical special election against a Jan. 6th lunatic
A student uprising to lower the voting age
Voting rights are slowly making a comeback
Florida schools demand permission slips for Disney and Dr. Seuss movies
Ohio GOP’s failed war on freedom is a 2024 gamechanger
BREAKING: Ohio voters reject GOP attempt to sabotage abortion rights
The fight that Democrats must wage and can’t lose
Bad guys and bad laws get a drubbing
The Supreme Court is terrified of the truth
Cranking up the heat on emergency climate change policy
Letting kids starve is not a legitimate position
Ron DeSantis's Black education standards were written by far-right activist
DeSantis laundered a racist alt-right obsession into Florida's school curriculum
DeSantis laundered a racist alt-right obsession into Florida's school curriculum
How Fox News threw Michigan into chaos with one ugly lie
The conservative War on Children keeps getting worse
Hollywood strikes are a product of monopoly power, Wall Street sycophancy, and dehumanization
Updated: DeSantis, Huckabee-Sanders declare class war against children with Medicaid unwinding
Republicans turn Medicaid unwinding into class war against children
Vouching for public education on the hottest days ever
Iowa's new child labor brochure is horrifying
Hope after the Supreme disaster
Affirmative inaction is the biggest threat of all
State supreme courts are having a field day
More money, more freedom in pivotal states
Miami, a sunny place for shady people
Surprising wins for workers and women this week
High-stakes ballot initiative battles are brewing
Democracy survived because bullying works
NYC's poisoned sky is a product of toxic world politics
A defiant DeSantis critic won't back down
Shoots of grassroots energy and democratic hope
A national day without immigrants
DeSantis's new bigot bullhorn has shady associations
The Great Abandonment gains steam
They'll sell you out and then ask for your money
DeSantis and the GOP’s New Florida Fascism
Michigan funds public schools, Texas gives them unlicensed chaplains
Trend alert: Preemptive Political Caving
NY’s Kathy Hochul is the worst governor in America
Far-right Christian fascism is swallowing us whole
The Republican War on Freedom goes into overdrive
The biggest strike in US history is on the horizon
Children can work in meat lockers, but drag shows are too much
Connecting Clarence Thomas and the Nebraska filibuster
The Death Star vs Local Democracy
Big wins prove democracy thrives in the solid blue midwest
Inside the historic billionaire roast
Republicans are the Party of Child Murder
The predatory housing scam infecting the nation
Florida Republicans are breaking their own laws to silence teenagers
In some states, kids get free lunch and health care. In others, their schools get destroyed.
Why 55 million people need a bailout
Scoop: Ron DeSantis's school board is secretly expanding "Don't Say Gay" to everyone
Right-wing fascism polls very poorly, but there's a catch
Every horrible bill proposed by DeSantis's Florida GOP this year
A new generation of leaders rises from the grassroots
DeSantis's henchmen are pretty awful (and don't like me at all!)
Good things happened this week
Jimmy Carter’s solar panels & today’s political battles
Corporate power is everything everywhere all at once
Florida Democrats can't let a corrupt corporate lobbyist take over the party
The GOP's new tech creep threatens abortion access and trans kids
Midwestern states are slowly going blue
Two dozen banned books and Biden's populist flair
Exclusive: Florida Fascism Grows With Unilateral Book Ban in County
February elections: Small races with big consequences
States are making big progress on health care and voting rights
Fascism shouldn't be this easy for Ron DeSantis
The rent is still too damn high, Joe
Arizona & Florida Republicans are going ham
How are abortion funds doing seven months after Dobbs?
Fearing DeSantis's wrath, a Florida county just took every book off school shelves
Will Democrats stand tall against this conservative judge?
Ron DeSantis's favorite insurrectionist is now his state-sponsored hype man
New York is failing as a blue state
Great news for voting rights and overdue relief in Florida
Ron DeSantis unleashes famed bigot to ruin beloved college in Florida
A quiet housing disaster looms. The clock is ticking.
Ron DeSantis allows infamous child predator to hang with kids in Florida