In These 5 Races, Climate Change Has Taken Center Stage
Amelia Bates/Grist 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. Earlier this fall, the world’s top climate scientists gave humanity about 10 years to avoid a future that really sucks. With the midterm elections right around the corner, that warning means…
Kris Kobach’s Kansas Voter ID Law Could Make Him Governor in a Tight Race
President Donald Trump greets Republican candidate for Kansas governor Kris Kobach during a campaign rally on October 6 in Topeka.Charlie Riedel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jessica Jones, a 32-year-old mother of four from Wichita, Kansas, showed up at her polling place to vote in 2012, 2016, and 2017, but…
Republican Candidates Have No Idea What ActBlue Is
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It would be incorrect, at this point, to call ActBlue Democrats’ secret weapon—there’s nothing secret about it. The Democratic fundraising platform, founded 14 years ago as a way to facilitate small-dollar online giving, has directed more than $1 billion to Democratic candidates this cycle. More…
Tennessee Is Going to Electrocute a Death Row Inmate
Tennessee’s death chamberMark Humphrey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, 63-year-old Tennessee death row inmate Edmund Zagorski will be put to death in the electric chair. The inmate has been on death row for more than 30 years for the 1983 murders of John Dale Dotson and Jimmy Porter…
Trump Is Still Blaming the ‘Far-Left’ Media for America’s Divisiveness
President Donald Trump talks to reporters before he travels to Fort Myers, Fla., for a campaign rally on Oct. 31, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a campaign rally for Florida Republican candidates on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump redoubled his attacks on the media, again claiming the…
Days After Bomb Attacks, NRA Doubles Down on Demonization of Soros, Steyer, Bloomberg
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre speaks at the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum in Dallas on May 4, 2018.Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Less than a week after a MAGA fanatic mailed pipe bombs to critics of President Donald Trump, the National Rifle Association intensified its…