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Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in 2021 and told lawmakers that “as a Republican...
Vote to love your neighbor. That message on a lawn sign created by Dorothy Shank, a member of the Ridgeway Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia,...
A September poll from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found Vice President Kamala Harris was 10 percentage points behind President Joe Biden’s 2020...
The North Carolina General Assembly spent the last four years passing laws that selectively suppress voter turnout. Encouraged by Donald Trump, who...
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has the power to stop the partisan and likely illegal new rules created by three Donald Trump allies on the State Election...
Over a decade ago, when political parties didn’t treat their rivals as mortal enemies, the Republican president of the Florida Senate, Jeff Atwater,...
This column is a part of Republic of Distrust, a series about the loss of trust in American institutions and what can be done to restore it. If...
The Georgia Board of Elections — which is dominated by election deniers — approved a rule change Monday that will sow chaos into the state’s...
Donald Trump created a monster, and it lives. We heard last week from Trump’s campaign that reports of Project 2025’s demise “would be greatly...
Conventional wisdom among political consultants says that a presidential candidate’s choice of a running mate has a marginal impact on the electoral...
In the 48 hours after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, she did something every...
Donald Trump is on the ballot. Joe Biden is not. That’s a simple matter of election law and timing. It’s also an inconvenient truth for right-wing...
The most alarming theme that emanated from the Republican National Convention last week was the party’s desire to turn its back on immigrants. The...
During the Republican National Convention this week, the drumbeat of outrage over the flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border was...
America isn’t a monarchy, but the Republican nomination next week of former President Donald Trump in Milwaukee will be as close to a coronation as...
As President Joe Biden continues to be almost as scarce on the campaign trail as his rival, attention is turning to the increasingly prominent role...
The Florida Democratic Party insists the state is in play in November, and that Donald Trump could lose there, delivering a fatal blow to his...
The knives are out in Texas for Republican Speaker of the House Dade Phelan. That could be bad for all Texans. Phelan’s crime: He dared to work with...
Mark Robinson, the North Carolina Republican candidate for governor, epitomizes the modern-day MAGA leader. Radicalized online, he transitioned his...
Marco Rubio was on the ascent as the next speaker of the Florida House of Representatives when he convened a 2006 policy summit in Orlando with...
As hundreds of North Carolina Republicans gathered over the Memorial Day weekend to elect delegates to the party’s national convention in July, a...
Nikki Haley was once perceived by many Republicans as their hope for redeeming a party that had been taken over by a morally corrupt, lying and craven...
School will be out soon, and for many teenagers that means it’s time to get a job. But there’s a new hitch: More teens will be recruited for adult...
A normally low-key nonpartisan election for the Georgia Supreme Court has turned into a fierce political fight over abortion in an important...
Florida Democrats gathered at Walt Disney World in Orlando over the weekend to try to script a path out of the morass left in 2022 when the party lost...
Florida abortion providers began turning patients away from their clinics this week, even before the state’s six-week ban took effect Wednesday. The...
With a stunning victory this month, workers at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted to unionize, sending another signal that the...
Republican legislators in Tennessee have decided that the best way to protect the state’s children from school shooters is to arm their teachers....
By all appearances, the Kentucky legislature’s vote on Friday seemed like a good-government attempt to let voters decide who gets to fill important...
If you haven’t been watching the Tennessee Legislature, you’re missing out. Members of the Republican-controlled body, which is dominated by old...
Florida voters will have a chance in November to tell Republicans that the party’s repressive and self-serving policies related to reproductive...
Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party has eviscerated the mail-in voting advantage party leaders spent two decades developing. Now, with...
Booker T. Washington, the founding president of Tuskegee University, once said “Ignorance is more costly to any state than education.” As Alabama...
As we mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s past time the federal government require uniform public health data...
The slate of MAGA Republicans that will be on North Carolina’s ballot in November has the potential to be disastrous for the state’s economic...
Nikki Haley announced the suspension of her campaign today. She lasted longer than everyone expected but the outcome was inevitable. She didn’t...
More than a half-century ago, stunt daredevil Karl Wallenda balanced on a 1,200-foot tightrope suspended above the rocky waterfalls of the northeast...
In a meandering Valentine’s Day speech in North Charleston, South Carolina, former president Donald Trump did what he does regularly at these types...
Nikki Haley has appeared on ballots in three states and lost to Donald Trump by double digits in all of them. She trails him by 35 percentage points...
Republican Senator James Lankford is no moderate. The Baptist preacher from Oklahoma has been the lead Senate negotiator in the effort to update the...
The iconic image of former Republican Arizona Senator John McCain giving the thumbs down in a crucial 2017 vote to repeal Obamacare still annoys...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race should surprise no one. Nor should his feckless endorsement of...
After her 32-point drubbing in the Iowa caucuses, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley stood before her supporters Monday night and boldly...
The opening sentence of the federal court opinion was like none other: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”...
This weekend marks three years since the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, and as Americans reflect on the shocking images and lies perpetrated from...
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign flames out, he’s setting the table to blame everyone but himself. His argument? The dozens...
Moms for Liberty, the conservative education movement, has a hypocrisy problem. And a trust problem. It’s time they disband, or start over. The...