Kevin de León Makes His Closing Argument for Unseating Sen. Dianne Feinstein
State Sen. Kevin de Leon speaks during a campaign stop at CHIRLA Action Fund headquarters in Los Angeles in September.Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. According to Kevin de León, if you want to see the future of politics, just look at California. “We’re a restless, innovative, creative, disruptive state,” de…
Marsha Blackburn Tells Voters She’s Fighting Opioids. Her Track Record Doesn’t Agree.
Mark Humphrey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Every death from opioids is heartbreaking,” said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the Tennessee Republican running for senate, in an earnest September campaign ad. Looking straight into the camera, Blackburn talked about new funding for treatment and the need to crack down on “drug makers who flood…
Obama Asks Hecklers at Miami Rally Why They’re “So Mad”
Barack Obama chastises hecklers during a campaign rally in Miami on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018.ABC News Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a campaign rally in Florida on Friday, Barack Obama cautioned a fired-up crowd about the dangers of divisive political rhetoric as hecklers interrupted his remarks. The repeated taunts—at times, curse…
If This Texas District Goes Blue on Tuesday, Look Out
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The first time Beto O’Rourke came to Fort Bend County, Texas, in April 2017, Cynthia Ginyard, the county Democratic chairwoman, saw people she hadn’t run into in years. Organizers were expecting 125 people; twice that many crammed into a British pub…
He Was the “Hot Guy Running for Congress.” Now, Ammar Campa-Najjar is a Contender.
John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune/ZUMA (2) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In any other election year, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a young Palestinian Mexican American running to unseat a five-term Republican congressman in one of California’s most fiercely red districts, wouldn’t stand a chance. But these are strange times in the 50th…
In 6 Western States, Voters Have a Chance to Fight Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Voters in six Western states—Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Washington—will head to the polls Nov. 6 with the chance to decide on hotly contested,…