AuthorAdrian Cole

Republican Party luminaries gathered in Tampa July 22-24 for Turning Point USA‘s “Student Action Summit.” The headliners at the conference of the right-wing organization, which says on its website that its “mission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote freedom,” were Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump, both of whom...

Several high-ranking Republicans have criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) internationally despite the fact that it has been a common practice under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sponsored a bill called the No Emergency Crude Oil for Foreign Adversaries Act that would...

The four leading Republican candidates for Michigan governor are still jockeying for the endorsement of former President Donald Trump with less than two weeks to go before the state’s Aug. 2 primary election. “No one is more popular with the Republican primary electorate than Donald Trump,” Adrian Hemond, CEO of the political consulting firm Grassroots Midwest told the American...

Democrat Hillary Scholten has been here before: facing Republican candidate Peter Meijer, now an incumbent Republican congressman, in a race for Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District.  In 2018 she lost to Meijer by six percentage points. The pair were vying for the vacated seat of Rep. Justin Amash, a Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U...

Kevin Rinke, a Republican candidate for governor of Michigan whose campaign ads feature totems of the state such as muscle cars and music that calls to mind Bob Seger and use typical Republican catchphrases like “tyrannical government,” “closed small businesses,” “illegal immigration,” “voter fraud,” and “critical race theory” to attack...

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...

Judge John Cooper of the Florida Second Circuit Court in Leon County on Thursday issued a temporary injunction blocking a Florida law, scheduled to take effect on July 1, that would ban abortions at 15 weeks’ gestation. The injunction, which takes effect as soon as the judge signs it, was issued in response to a lawsuit filed against state officials by a coalition of reproductive rights...

After the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 struck down with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization the constitutional right to abortion nationwide, the legality of abortion in Michigan now rests precariously upon a preliminary injunction issued by the state Court of Claims in May that prevents the 1931 abortion ban on the books in Michigan from taking effect. The Court of...

In the latest move in Michigan’s battle over reproductive rights, Republican lawmakers in the state introduced a bill on Wednesday that would make providing an abortion a felony in Michigan punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $100,000. The Protection at Conception Act, sponsored by Michigan state Rep. Steve Carra and five other GOP lawmakers, would amend the...

Following his arrest last week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection, Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan D. Kelley appeared on a podcast hosted by former President Donald Trump senior adviser Steve Bannon to air his grievances with law enforcement and Democrats. On the June 11 episode of Bannon’s “War...