- 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.
Detransition Clinic Settlement
The Texas Attorney General's Office released settlement terms requiring Texas Children's Hospital to create the country's first detransition clinic, review a patient list, build a public website, and pay $10 million. The hospital says it will formalize services it already offers.
June 4, 2026Brady Sues ATF Over Crime Gun Records
Brady filed a FOIA lawsuit in D.C. federal court demanding ATF release Demand Letter 2s identifying gun dealers who sold 25+ crime-traced firearms per year. ATF paused the program in 2025. The agency traced 190,000 firearms through DL2s between 2000 and 2021.
June 4, 2026Children and Gun Deaths
Firearms surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for children in 2020 and have held that position for four consecutive years. 2,227 children died from gunfire in 2024. The U.S. child gun death rate is 9.5x Canada's.
June 4, 20268,000 Workers Lose Protections
An executive order reclassified 8,000 senior civil servants under Schedule Policy/Career. They can be fired without cause, notice, or appeal. The total could reach hundreds of thousands.
June 3, 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.