- 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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The Price You Pay
Every policy has a price tag. Tariffs cost $1,300-3,800 per household. Eggs up 58%. Gas up 54%. SNAP cut $186 billion. CEO pay up 25.6% while worker pay grew 1.3%. These briefs follow the money from the policy to the kitchen table.
The Price You Pay Series
Latest Briefs
What changed, who did it, what you can do about it.
Teacher Pay Crisis
The teacher pay penalty hit a record 26.9% in 2024. Ten states pay teachers under $58,000. The shortage will get worse until pay catches up.
June 11, 2026FISA 702 Blocked 47-52
Senate voted 47-52 to block FISA Section 702 reauthorization after Trump appointed Bill Pulte, a housing regulator with no intelligence background, as acting spy chief. The surveillance law expires June 12.
June 10, 2026HUD Cuts and Homelessness
The administration proposed a 44% HUD cut. Congress rejected it, increasing funding by $7.2 billion instead. But HUD rule changes still threaten 170,000 formerly homeless people.
June 10, 2026NV Gov: Lombardo 40, Ford 37
Nevada is set: Lombardo vs. Ford in a Cook Political Tossup. He leads 40-37 but Trump's Medicaid cuts and a second abortion vote complicate his path.
June 10, 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 investigations 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.