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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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Who Runs Your State
Your governor, AG, and state court control more of your daily life than Congress. States passed 29,000 laws in 2025 while Congress passed 230. Governors decide Medicaid, vouchers, and abortion policy. AGs file the lawsuits that block federal overreach. This series follows the power that actually shapes your day.
Who Runs Your State Series
Latest Policy Briefs & Analysis
What changed, who did it, what you can do about it.
Institutional Knowledge Drain
EPA departing employees had 30.3 years median tenure versus 10.8 for those who stayed. Nuclear safety, dam inspection, food testing, and air traffic control lost their most experienced workers.
June 6, 2026Pennsylvania's Medicaid Abortion Ban Struck Down.
The Commonwealth Court ruled 4-3 that banning Medicaid funding for abortion violates Pennsylvania's Equal Rights Amendment and guarantees a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy. The AG appealed.
June 5, 202613 Virginia Prosecutors Won't Enforce the New Gun Ban.
Virginia's assault weapons ban takes effect July 1. Thirteen prosecutors say they won't enforce it. The NRA and Gun Owners of America filed suit within hours. 20-30 million AR-15s are in American hands.
June 5, 2026Texas Can Now Arrest and Deport on Its Own.
The Fifth Circuit voted 10-7 to let Texas enforce SB 4, a state law that lets police arrest suspected border crossers and state judges order deportations. 15% of 2026 arrests hit citizens or green card holders.
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.