Schools in Achille, Oklahoma will be closed until Wednesday following an outpouring of threats against a 12-year-old transgender girl. Maddie — the student being threatened — used the girls’ bathroom on the…
On Thursday, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (R) signed automatic voter registration into law, making the Bay State the 14th state to adopt policy automatically registering voters. The state legislature passed the bill…
After the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the nation erupted. Protests grew around St. Louis. Those protests redoubled after a grand jury refused to indict Wilson.…
Kris Kobach has been for suppressing votes. And as Kansas Secretary of State, he could oversee a potential recount for the Republican gubernatorial primary. As of this writing, Kobach is ahead of…
The Women’s Wave is bringing its rising tide to the Great Lakes with Gretchen Whitmer’s victory in tonight’s Democratic primary for Michigan’s gubernatorial race. With 27 percent of precincts reporting, the New…
The California Department of Corrections made a stunning admission — youth prisoners are being put in harms way to fight wildfires raging across the state. In a tweet sent last week, the…
Some centrist Democrats in Maryland are so afraid of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ben Jealous’ platform that they’re choosing the current Republican administration. Last week, The Washington Post reported that top-ranking Democratic officials…
One of the things that makes Texas famous is its proclivity to incarcerate people. However, the vast majority of people in the Lone Star State’s jails are legally innocent. A recent article…
The Supreme Court’s upholding of a partisan gerrymander was a crushing defeat for a lot of states who struggle with fair district lines. And one of the least fair states in the…
Four traditionally blue states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an effort to stop the Republican tax bill from being implemented. Attorneys General for the states of Connecticut, Maryland,…