- January 5, 2021Democrats are cautiously optimistic. Republicans, once favored, face party brawls.
- January 5, 2021
In the storm of news it’s hard to figure out what’s going on, but here’s the bottom line: we are right now fighting over whether or not America will be a democracy.
- January 3, 2021Democrats and Republicans, and their allies, have blanketed the state with media and messaging, but neighbors calling on neighbors may tip the outcome.
- December 30, 2020
The complicated fight in the Senate over the one-time stimulus payment of $2000 illustrates that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), not Trump, now controls the Republican caucus.
- December 11, 2020
Democrat Biden won the election by more than 7 million votes and by 306 to 232 electoral votes. Trump has lost 55 of the 56 court cases he has brought to change the election’s outcome, and all 50 states have certified their election results. This election is not close; attempts to overturn it reject the central concept of democracy: that voters choose their leaders.
- December 9, 2020Despite incumbent claims of “exoneration” in Washington, Georgia voters have taken note of profiteering from the pandemic.
- December 7, 2020
That electorate—along with the organizing that spurred it—is now giving Democrats hope that Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff can win runoff elections for the US Senate on January 5, races that would have seemed almost unwinnable in past years.
- June 21, 2017Voters see the results of money in political fights — ads, direct mail, etc. — but they often can't see who's behind it.
- April 19, 2017This week's installment in our series in which we regularly point you to some of the best investigative reporting you might otherwise miss.