ArchiveJuly 2022

Advocates for LGBTQ people are taking action in response to Republican governors’ efforts to stop transgender people in their states from receiving gender-affirming health care and to punish families who help them receive it. Gender-affirming health care, which medical organizations such as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the...

President Joe Biden visited Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday to announce a final federal rule that will provide pension relief for union workers that were facing cuts before the passage of the 2021 American Rescue Plan. “With today’s actions, millions of workers will have the dignified retirement they earned and they deserve,” Biden told an audience of union workers and retirees at...

Ohio Republican nominee J.D. Vance is framing himself in his campaign for Senate as an opponent of powerful “elites.” Meanwhile, in 2011 the author and venture capitalist embraced a controversial GOP budget proposal that would have slashed entitlement protections for poorer and older Americans, ending both Medicare and Medicaid as we know them while cutting taxes for himself and other...

Polling conducted last week found that a large majority of Pennsylvania voters are aware of the U.S. House investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and that majorities both support the committee and are concerned about its findings. The poll, which surveyed 582 likely voters over text and landline phones, was conducted June 28-29 by Public Policy Polling in collaboration with the Defend...

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has been energetically whittling away at civil rights in his state, pursuing anti-LGBTQ policies, pushing intolerance and censorship in schools, and restricting voting rights. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on June 30 in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency will factor into another ideological battle the governor is fighting...

Voters might not know it from Sen. Ron Johnson’s congressional or campaign issue webpages, but the Wisconsin Republican has spent his two terms in the Senate opposing virtually every gun safety proposal that has been introduced. Last month, he even opposed the bipartisan compromise gun bill that passed in the wake of the mass shooting in May at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Johnson...

Ohio’s most consequential elections this fall may not be for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, or even the state’s governorship, but in the races for three seats on the Ohio Supreme Court. Two of the state’s justices are running for reelection, and a third open-seat race will fill an impending vacancy left by Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, who cannot run for...

A Republican House candidate for a competitive seat in northwest Ohio said Monday that mass shootings are an acceptable price to pay for his right to own guns. “I don’t care if countries in Europe have less shootings because they don’t have guns. I care about THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and OUR 2nd Amendment Rights,” Republican J.R. Majewski tweeted Monday evening...

Last Friday, the United States Supreme Court overturned its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which guaranteed Americans’ constitutional right to have abortions. On Tuesday night, the conservative Family Foundation of Virginia hosted a Zoom event to celebrate the Court’s decision. At the event, Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears rejected abortion rights entirely and claimed that after...

The White House slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday for protecting large pharmaceutical companies in a statement released by press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “The Republican Senate leader is holding hostage a bipartisan package to strengthen American competitiveness versus China, that would yield hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs in places like Southern...