- 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
- Cost of Living
Cost of Living
Tariffs added $1,745 per family. The bottom 90% lost 7% of income. 3.5 million lost SNAP. Gas hit $5.87. Social Security recipients lost $20-$30/month after inflation ate the COLA. The Supreme Court struck down the tariffs and prices still didn't come down. Each brief traces a specific cost from the policy to your kitchen table.
Cost of Living 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
Latest Briefs
What changed, who did it, what you can do about it.
Birthright Citizenship Upheld
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to nearly everyone born in the US, striking down Trump's executive order denying it to children of undocumented and temporary-visa parents.
June 30, 2026Trans Sports Bans Upheld
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that states may bar transgender girls from girls' sports, reversing two lower courts and leaving bans in more than two dozen states in place.
June 30, 2026Toxic Waste Near Enid's Wells
A ProPublica investigation found toxic oil wastewater injected a quarter-mile from Enid, Oklahoma's drinking water wells, inside the state's own half-mile buffer. The city must appeal to the agency that allowed it.
June 30, 20261969 Denver School Blowout
On March 20, 1969, Chicano students at Denver's West High School launched a four-day walkout demanding curriculum reform. More than 1,200 students joined.
June 30, 2026Understand the System
The money, the rules, and the structures that determine who has power. Evidence-backed series and explainers on the issues shaping the 2026 election.
Series Multi-part series with data and charts
Explainers Deep dives with data and action items
Vote. And Bring Someone With You.
48 million people stayed home last midterm. State races are decided by who shows up. Your right to vote is not guaranteed. Check your registration, research your ballot, and bring three people.