- Pride 2026 Series
LGBTQ Rights
Tracking the laws, court fights, and policies reshaping LGBTQ lives.
382,800 transgender youth live in the 27 states that banned access to gender-affirming care.LGBTQ Rights Series
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Follow the Money
$6.3 billion in presidential profits. $1.9 billion in dark money. 47 lobbyists regulating the industries that paid them. $9 billion to a border wall contractor whose wall collapsed. These briefs trace where the money goes and who it protects.
Follow the Money Series
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Medicaid
The One Big Beautiful Bill cut $911 billion from Medicaid. Work requirements failed in Arkansas and are being imposed nationwide anyway. At least 15 states have trigger laws that drop coverage when federal funding falls. Each brief covers a different piece — the federal cuts, the state-level fallout, and who loses coverage.
Medicaid Series
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Project 2025 Implementation
Heritage Foundation published the playbook. The administration is executing it. These briefs track what has been implemented, what is pending, and what the progressive counter-agenda looks like.
Project 2025 Implementation Series
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Election 2026
435 House seats, 35 Senate seats, 36 governor races, and your rights on the ballot. 26 states are rewriting voting rules. Every abortion ballot measure has passed since Dobbs. This is the guide to what matters in November.
36 governor seats on the ballot. 17 are open. These races determine redistricting, Medicaid, abortion policy, and election rules for the next decade.Election 2026 Series
Latest Policy Briefs & Analysis
What changed, who did it, what you can do about it.
TX Data Centers vs Water
Data centers in Texas used 49 billion gallons of water in 2025. By 2030 they could use 399 billion. Corpus Christi may hit emergency restrictions by September while a nearby town blocks wells to reserve water for a data center.
June 5, 2026Carroll DOJ Probe
A jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and awarded E. Jean Carroll $88 million. Now his Justice Department opened a criminal probe into her over legal funding disclosure.
June 5, 2026Boyfriend Loophole
556 women killed per year by a husband or dating partner with a gun. The 2022 law partially closed the boyfriend loophole but convicted dating partners can regain gun rights after 5 years.
June 5, 2026FDA Food Safety Cuts
The FDA closed food testing labs in San Francisco and Chicago. Seafood inspections are delayed. The food safety system is operating with fewer inspectors, fewer labs, and longer response times.
June 5, 2026Money, Power & the 2026 Election
Policy decisions have a price. These series show you the receipt, name the people responsible, and connect every number to a race on your November ballot.
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Vote. And Bring Someone With You.
48 million people stayed home last midterm. State races are decided by who shows up. Check your registration, research your ballot, and bring three people.