Unleash the Investigations! What Dems Could Do If They Win the House.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Doug ChaykaIf Democrats win one or both houses of Congress in November, they’ll have a real say in how the country is run for the first time since Donald Trump’s inauguration. Even if the White House and the GOP won’t cooperate with them, there are…
The Midterms Have the Power to Usher in an Era of Climate Action
James Victore; Source: T-Rex: Turbosquid; Trump: Dominic Reuter/Reuters Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the most important thing to know about climate politics in this critical election year: How fast we act decides the future we get. Of course, climate politics seems to be about many things, things that this…
More Than a Dozen Candidates Linked to #MeToo Allegations Will Appear on the November Ballot
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Incumbents The Challengers Sherrod BrownDemocrat, Senate, Ohio Brown’s ex-wife, Larke Recchie, filed a restraining order against Brown in the 1980s while the two were in the middle of a contentious divorce. In related court records, Recchie alleged that Brown had…
Republicans’ War Against Obamacare Could Cost Them This Arkansas House Seat
Clarke Tucker faces an uphill battle to unseat incumbent Rep. French Hill (AR-02).Thomas Metthe/ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While Republican politicians have lately been backtracking their positions on pre-existing conditions, deep in the heart of Trump Country a Democratic politician is anchoring his congressional campaign on his personal story…
An Obamacare Expert and Her Army of Women Volunteers Could Flip This Red District
Lauren Underwood at an endorsement event with Human Rights Campaign on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Geneva, Ill.John Konstantaras/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Lauren Underwood had no idea how to run for Congress. The 32-year-old Democrat built the first version of her campaign website…
Joe Biden Calls Trump’s Handling of Journalist’s Death “Embarrassing” and “Dangerous”
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the stump in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, former Vice President Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as “embarrassing” and “dangerous.” Just yesterday, Trump repeated that he found credible Saudi Arabia’s latest claim that…