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The high-stakes, low-profile battles that will define 2024

Grinch Governors Go Scrooge on Schoolchildren

BREAKING: Infamous GOP gerrymander struck down

The Best Political News of 2023: Part 2

On Colorado and the Supreme Court, acquiescence has consequences

The Best Political News of 2023: Part 1

Substackers Against Nazis

Florida GOP ignores "parents' rights," votes to put children to work late into the night

Texas's Freaky Anti-Abortion Justice Gets a Last-Minute Challenger

GOP cynics use antisemitism to push racist school agenda

Direct democracy on the line in Michigan

The coming crackdown on conservative cruelty

The GOP's war on starving Americans ramps up

Long Con: How the GOP is trying to end democracy from the inside

Ohio Republicans fire away at the Constitution

The National War on NIMBYism Has Arrived

Still thankful, still fighting for the people

A guide to your Thanksgiving political debate

After the US’s worst book ban, these teachers and kids took down Moms for Liberty

Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott humiliated themselves

Being numb is a privilege

Exclusive: Moms for Liberty's Failure Was Even Worse Than Reported

Ohio Republicans Can’t Just Take the L

Another shocking election night

The Biggest Elections That Nobody’s Discussing

Israel's war puts the Democratic Party at a crossroads

Caring for kids is a moral and political winner

A genius way to fight far-right book bans

Workers' big week, far-right freaks, and DeSantis gets dumped

A GOP health care scam flops even harder than expected

Americans really, really want to avoid war

Jim Jordan shouldn’t have gotten that far

Democracy is on fire in North Carolina

What's at stake in Israel right now

Voting rights and wrongs in a busy week for democracy

Massive win: Ohio high court tosses drag ban from the ballot

War in the Midwest, War in the Middle East

Americans demand big Supreme Court changes

Blue state blues and solid abortion news

A DeSantis ally’s anti-LGBTQ+ rant hints at the GOP game plan

Leadership failed Dianne Feinstein — and us

Free speech showdown and the future of small-town America

Do it for the children (and the votes)

Celebrating good news and bad scandals

Don’t let good scandals go to waste

The first big election of 2024 starts on Friday

Uprisings in the Midwest

The surprising way paychecks influence political voting

Supreme power-grabs are underway

Exposing the Shadowy Far-Right’s Next Targets

Working on a revolution

As Nazis swarm Florida, Ron DeSantis and staff still refuse to condemn them

A good week for reproductive rights and workers

Wisconsin Republicans are trying to save their gerrymander by bullying

The fate of a state rests with 20 votes and a doomsday preacher

Republicans expose their dark plan to demolish free society

A critical special election against a Jan. 6th lunatic

A student uprising to lower the voting age

An unwinding disaster

Voting rights are slowly making a comeback

Florida schools demand permission slips for Disney and Dr. Seuss movies

Ohio GOP’s failed war on freedom is a 2024 gamechanger

BREAKING: Ohio voters reject GOP attempt to sabotage abortion rights

The fight that Democrats must wage and can’t lose

Bad guys and bad laws get a drubbing

The Supreme Court is terrified of the truth

Cranking up the heat on emergency climate change policy

Letting kids starve is not a legitimate position

Ron DeSantis's Black education standards were written by far-right activist

DeSantis laundered a racist alt-right obsession into Florida's school curriculum

DeSantis laundered a racist alt-right obsession into Florida's school curriculum

How Fox News threw Michigan into chaos with one ugly lie

The conservative War on Children keeps getting worse

Hollywood strikes are a product of monopoly power, Wall Street sycophancy, and dehumanization

Updated: DeSantis, Huckabee-Sanders declare class war against children with Medicaid unwinding

Republicans turn Medicaid unwinding into class war against children

Vouching for public education on the hottest days ever

Iowa's new child labor brochure is horrifying

Hope after the Supreme disaster

Affirmative inaction is the biggest threat of all

State supreme courts are having a field day

Banning the book bans

Let's talk

More money, more freedom in pivotal states

Miami, a sunny place for shady people

Surprising wins for workers and women this week

High-stakes ballot initiative battles are brewing

Democracy survived because bullying works

NYC's poisoned sky is a product of toxic world politics

A defiant DeSantis critic won't back down

Shoots of grassroots energy and democratic hope

A national day without immigrants

DeSantis's new bigot bullhorn has shady associations

The Great Abandonment gains steam

A Rust Belt Renaissance

They'll sell you out and then ask for your money

Learning to let go

The Book Ban Backlash Begins

DeSantis and the GOP’s New Florida Fascism

Michigan funds public schools, Texas gives them unlicensed chaplains

Trend alert: Preemptive Political Caving

NY’s Kathy Hochul is the worst governor in America

Florida sinks to a new low

Far-right Christian fascism is swallowing us whole

The Republican War on Freedom goes into overdrive

The biggest strike in US history is on the horizon

Children can work in meat lockers, but drag shows are too much

Connecting Clarence Thomas and the Nebraska filibuster

The Death Star vs Local Democracy

How Tennessee got so fascist

Big wins prove democracy thrives in the solid blue midwest

Inside the historic billionaire roast

Republicans are the Party of Child Murder

The Party of Child Murder

The predatory housing scam infecting the nation

Florida Republicans are breaking their own laws to silence teenagers

In some states, kids get free lunch and health care. In others, their schools get destroyed.

Why 55 million people need a bailout

Scoop: Ron DeSantis's school board is secretly expanding "Don't Say Gay" to everyone

Right-wing fascism polls very poorly, but there's a catch

Every horrible bill proposed by DeSantis's Florida GOP this year

A new generation of leaders rises from the grassroots

DeSantis's henchmen are pretty awful (and don't like me at all!)

Seven days of hell in Florida

Good things happened this week

The nihilists are winning

Jimmy Carter’s solar panels & today’s political battles

Corporate power is everything everywhere all at once

Florida Democrats can't let a corrupt corporate lobbyist take over the party

The GOP's new tech creep threatens abortion access and trans kids

Midwestern states are slowly going blue

Two dozen banned books and Biden's populist flair

Exclusive: Florida Fascism Grows With Unilateral Book Ban in County

February elections: Small races with big consequences

States are making big progress on health care and voting rights

Fascism shouldn't be this easy for Ron DeSantis

The rent is still too damn high, Joe

Arizona & Florida Republicans are going ham

How are abortion funds doing seven months after Dobbs?

Fearing DeSantis's wrath, a Florida county just took every book off school shelves

Will Democrats stand tall against this conservative judge?

Ron DeSantis's favorite insurrectionist is now his state-sponsored hype man

New York is failing as a blue state

Everything is culture war now

Great news for voting rights and overdue relief in Florida

Ron DeSantis unleashes famed bigot to ruin beloved college in Florida

A quiet housing disaster looms. The clock is ticking.

Ron DeSantis allows infamous child predator to hang with kids in Florida