Anti-Clean Energy Groups Have Come Up With a Way to Show They Have Grassroots Support
Leah Nash for the Washington Post via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Javier Torres Jimenez was surprised to find his South Seattle grocery store, Mi Ranchito, on a list of Latino businesses opposing a…
The US Has Never Had a Native American Governor. This Idaho Progressive May Change That Tuesday.
Madeline Scott/Jordan for Governor Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At first glance, Paulette Jordan seems like an improbable choice for Idaho governor. She’s a young Native American woman running on a progressive platform in a state that has never had a governor who wasn’t a white man and hasn’t elected…
Donald Trump Jr. Is Basically Tweeting About White Genocide Now
Albin Lohr-Jones/Avalon via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) isn’t going to lose on Tuesday, but that’s not why this comment from Donald Trump Jr., the president’s oldest son and of his most popular surrogates, is so important: Angus King is a Fake Independent who…
It Takes More Than a Hurricane to Sway Some Voters In This Texas Election
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. John Culberson, a United State congressman who represents west Houston, has long questioned “the data” on climate change, which scientists say contributes to more intense and frequent storms. When…
CNN Goes There, Tells Don Jr His Dad’s Ad Is Racist
Joshua L. Jones/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you want to understand the relationship between the Trump administration and CNN, you could start with this exchange Saturday morning between the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and the network’s corporate PR staff, about a racist video tweeted by the…
Midwestern Democrats Have a Secret Weapon—It’s Called Chicago
Demonstrators gather across from Trump tower in Chicago to celebrate the GOP’s failed repeal of Obamacare on March 24, 2017.Max Herman/Sipa via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Early in 2017, in the depths of a bitter Midwestern winter, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee deployed a staffer to Illinois’ 6th…