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Red States Texas Floods Killed 130. Lawmakers Still Won't Require Emergency Training. July 3, 2026 Voting FBI Surged 260 Analysts to Georgia's 2020 Vote Probe. Ballots Were Counted 3 Times. July 3, 2026 Rule of Law An Active-Duty Air Force Major Called for Trump's Impeachment in Uniform, Then Was Arrested. July 1, 2026 Economy Trump Won't Renew the USMCA He Once Called the Best Deal Ever. Now It's Annual Reviews. July 1, 2026 Voting 1,500 South Dakota Voters Got Federal-Only Ballots. A New Law Is Why. June 30, 2026 Voting Gold Mountain Fire Triggers Emergency Online Voting in Ouray County June 30, 2026 Red States NC's $34 Billion Budget Kills DEI Offices. No Public Hearings Allowed. June 30, 2026 Economy Washington Launches First State Long-Term Care Program. 3.7 Million Workers Now Covered. June 30, 2026 Voting NC House Passes Elections Bill 66-47. Senate Decides Next. June 30, 2026 Immigration 570 ICE Detainees Filed for Release in Mississippi. One Judge Decided None. June 30, 2026 Reproductive Rights Virginia's November Ballot Will Decide Abortion, IVF & Contraception Rights June 30, 2026 Public Workers The White House Pressured the Board That Protects Federal Workers From Political Firing. June 30, 2026 Ethics Amazon Paid Melania $10.7 Million for a Documentary Almost No One Watched. June 30, 2026 Ethics Trump Made Over $1 Billion From Crypto in a Year, While His Government Wrote the Rules. June 30, 2026 Immigration Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship, 6-3, Striking Down Trump's Order. June 30, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Supreme Court Upholds State Bans on Trans Girls in Female Sports, 6-3. June 30, 2026 Environment Oil Wastewater Is Injected Near Enid's Water Wells. Oklahoma Approved It Without a Hearing. June 30, 2026 Civil Rights Denver Chicano Students Walked Out in 1969. 1,200 Showed Up. Schools Changed. June 30, 2026 Red States Idaho Enacted 350 Laws in 2026. Firing Squad & Bathroom Bans Start July 1. June 30, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Kansas Has 3 Active Trans Rights Cases. One Heads to Appeals Court. June 30, 2026 Reproductive Rights Ohio Put Abortion in Its Constitution. Doctors Still Fear Arrest. June 30, 2026 Healthcare Indiana Lost 174,000 Kids From Medicaid. It's the Worst Rate in the Nation. June 30, 2026 Reproductive Rights Where to Find Abortion Funding in Every Region of the Country June 30, 2026 Foreign Policy U.S. Hit 10 Iranian Targets. Iran Struck Kuwait and Bahrain. June 29, 2026 Rule of Law Rhode Island Dropped Its Cannabis Residency Rule. 100 Licenses Still in Limbo. June 29, 2026 Public Workers Senate Passed $50M Grant Bill for Theodore Roosevelt Library. House Vote Pending. June 29, 2026 Red States Nebraska AG Sued Lincoln to Block Its Minimum Wage Law. Omaha Is Next. June 29, 2026 Rule of Law DC Pays $50,000 to a Man Police Cuffed for Playing Darth Vader's Theme at Troops. June 29, 2026 Rule of Law Judge Permanently Blocks Trump's 'Flagrantly Illegal' Freeze of Hudson Tunnel Funds. June 29, 2026 Immigration Supreme Court Lets the US Turn Back Asylum Seekers at the Border, 6-3. June 29, 2026 Ethics Trump Bought Up to $5M in Taser Stock Weeks Before ICE Sought a $220M Taser Deal. June 29, 2026 Rule of Law Supreme Court Says Police Need a Warrant for Geofence Location Sweeps, 6-3. June 29, 2026 Rule of Law Supreme Court Lets Trump Fire Independent Regulators at Will, Overturning a 90-Year Rule. June 29, 2026 Voting Supreme Court Upholds Mail Ballots Postmarked by Election Day, 5-4. June 29, 2026 Public Workers Trump Proposed a Governmentwide NDA for Federal Workers. Democrats Are Pushing Back. June 29, 2026 Economy Nevada Radiation Vets Are Sick and Uncompensated. Their Delegation Is Fighting Back. June 29, 2026 Education NH's $1.2M Childcare Quality Contract Is Stalled. Federal Compliance at Risk. June 29, 2026 Immigration Tennessee Law Criminalizes Immigration Status. ACLU's Challenge Dismissed on Standing. June 29, 2026 Voting 70+ Connecticut Laws Hit July 1. Absentee Ballot Rules Change Today. June 29, 2026 Rule of Law Supreme Court Lets the Carroll Verdict Stand. Trump's Lies Brought Her Death Threats. June 29, 2026 Healthcare Medicaid Work Requirements Hit July 1 in Montana While 5.3 Million Face Coverage Loss Nationwide Updated June 12, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 57 Years After Stonewall, Gay Bars Are Being Raided Again as 'Compliance Checks.' June 28, 2026 Education The FCC Opened a Review That Could Cut Internet Funding for Schools and Libraries. June 28, 2026 Foreign Policy A Palestinian Journalist Left Israeli Detention Near Death. US Law Bars Funding Torture. June 28, 2026 Voting Mississippi Democrats Last Won Statewide in 2003. Colom Runs to End That. June 28, 2026 Immigration Trump Nominates Oklahoma Trooper to Lead ICE. No Confirmed Director Since Obama. June 28, 2026 Rule of Law A White House Office of Ex-DOGE Engineers Is Taking Over Federal Websites. June 28, 2026 Gun Safety Uninsured Gunshot Victims Discharged Faster in Florida. New Hospital Data Shows Disparity. June 28, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Eugene Pride March Canceled. Police Refused to Protect Marchers Without a Permit. June 28, 2026 Rule of Law Hegseth Pushed Out a Top Combat General Mid-Tour. He's the Latest of More Than 20. Updated June 28, 2026 Civil Rights Supreme Court Narrowed Compassionate Release. A Freed Bus Driver May Return to Prison. June 27, 2026 Healthcare 3 Million Lost ACA Coverage as Premiums Jumped 58% After Subsidies Expired June 27, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Florida Cities Painted Rainbow Crosswalks After DeSantis Tried to Ban Them June 27, 2026 Environment Court Blocked Trump EPA From Scrapping Soot Rule. 4,500 Lives a Year at Stake. June 27, 2026 Voting Alaska's August Primary Will List Two Dan Sullivans for Senate June 27, 2026 Immigration Trump's ICE Pick Spent 2025 Deputizing Local Police. Now He'd Run the Whole Agency. June 27, 2026 Economy Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on Europe Over Digital Tax June 27, 2026 Voting South Dakota Prison Recidivism Is 50%. GOP Runoff July 28. June 27, 2026 Voting Abbott Hired Bulls and a Taco Truck to Troll Texas Democrats. He's Worried. Updated June 30, 2026 Environment Flood Insurance Is Pricing Out the People Who Need It Most While Congress Pretends the Water Isn't Rising June 27, 2026 Education Texas Board Votes to Mandate Bible Readings for 5 Million Students June 26, 2026 Education Iowa Charter School Founder Sues Over $48K Missing Funds. Board Votes June 29. June 26, 2026 Voting South Dakota Tax Law Takes Effect. Petitioners Fell Short of 17,508 Signatures. June 26, 2026 Foreign Policy Pentagon Blacklists WuXi STA. Delaware's $500M Pharma Campus at Risk. June 26, 2026 Healthcare Connecticut Medicaid Costs Rose 14% in 2024. Still Cheaper Than Private Insurance. June 26, 2026 Foreign Policy U.S. Struck Iran Over Hormuz Ship Attack. Congress Not Notified. Updated June 30, 2026 Ethics Trump's $16M Reflecting Pool Repaint Went to a No-Bid Golf-Club Contractor. June 26, 2026 Environment Supreme Court Blocks Thousands of Roundup Cancer Suits Against Bayer in 7-2 Ruling. June 26, 2026 Civil Rights 148 California Officers Kept Jobs After Bias Findings. Only 12% Were Fired. June 25, 2026 Healthcare Georgia Medical Board Rule Could Shut Down Rural Nurse Clinics June 25, 2026 Voting Uber & CA Lawyers Cut a Deal. 2 Voter Ballot Measures Are Gone. June 25, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Ohio LGBTQ+ Residents Are 3.5x More Likely to Report Mental Distress. Funding Gaps Make It Worse. June 25, 2026 Voting Judge Blocks USPS Plan to Withhold Mail Ballots From States. 5 Suits Pending. June 25, 2026 Healthcare Michigan Bills Would Cap Hospital Price Hikes. A New Board Would Enforce It. June 25, 2026 Voting Stephen Miller Posted 'Change the Voters, Change the Country' Before the Midterms. June 25, 2026 Civil Rights Texas GOP Platform Opposes Halal School Meals. Muslim Delegates Faced Harassment. June 25, 2026 Ethics Judge Orders DOJ to Release More Epstein Files or Explain the Secrecy by July 2. Updated June 27, 2026 Education Bonamici Files 3 Impeachment Articles Against Education Secretary McMahon. June 25, 2026 Ethics Dominion Dropped Its $1.3 Billion Suit Against Mike Lindell After a GOP Buyout. June 25, 2026 Immigration Supreme Court Lets Trump Strip Protections From 356,000 Haitians and Syrians. June 25, 2026 Education Texas Advanced a Bible-Heavy Social Studies Rewrite. The Final Vote Is Friday. June 25, 2026 Housing 182,000 Californians Are Homeless. Sacramento Has 3 Bills to Watch. June 25, 2026 Civil Rights Texas Gave 9 ICE Protesters 30 to 100 Years. One Moved a Box of Zines. June 25, 2026 Voting Ohio Gov. DeWine Vetoed Mail-In Voter ID Bill. Legislature Could Override. June 25, 2026 Education Florida Moving to Ban Undocumented Students From State Universities June 25, 2026 Environment Montana FWP Is Raising Park Fees. Public Comment Closes July 24. June 25, 2026 Economy Florida's SNAP Error Rate Hit 12.97%. A $1 Billion State Bill Is Coming. June 25, 2026 Housing Trump Blocked a Veto-Proof Housing Bill. He Wants a Voting Law Instead. June 25, 2026 Voting Pennsylvania Could Flip Its Entire State Government in November. Here Is How to Make It Happen. June 25, 2026 Ethics Ethics Complaint Filed Against RI Senate President Over Union Conflict June 24, 2026 Voting Corbett Stays on Illinois Ballot. Bailey Camp Drops Signature Challenge. June 24, 2026 Rule of Law South Dakota Prisons Return Half of Released Inmates. New Plan Targets 39%. June 24, 2026 Voting Utah Senate President Stuart Adams Lost His Primary by 8 Points. June 24, 2026 Reproductive Rights Illinois Law Blocks Out-of-State Access to Abortion Patients' Records June 24, 2026 Environment An AI Data Center Promised No River Water. Now It's Suing for 260 Million Gallons. June 24, 2026 Ethics Missouri's Gov. Kehoe Used Dark Money for His Own Ballot Measure June 24, 2026 Environment BOEM Is Soliciting Seabed Mining Off Virginia. The Zone Is Larger Than Delaware. June 24, 2026 Voting Idaho PACs Spent $4.2M on Primaries. Donors Are Hard to Trace. June 24, 2026 Housing Oregon Won $14M in Rent-Fixing Settlements. 3 Landlords Still Face Trial. June 23, 2026 Voting Georgia Passed QR Code Ballots Until 2028. The Governor Can Still Stop It. June 23, 2026 Economy Federal Court Voids SNAP Soda Bans in 24 States. USDA Lacked Authority. June 23, 2026 Healthcare Florida's Largest Pediatric Medicaid Provider Sues DeSantis for $300M. 300,000 Kids Could Lose Their Doctors. June 23, 2026 Healthcare Iowa Medicaid Froze $2M From a Pharmacy for 5 Years. No Charges Followed. June 23, 2026 Public Workers Intelligence Firings Begin Under Pulte, Who Has No Intelligence Experience June 23, 2026 Voting Alaska Removed a Senate Candidate. Lawmakers Say It Was Likely Unlawful. June 23, 2026 Foreign Policy Pentagon Requests $80 Billion From Congress for Iran War Costs June 23, 2026 Rule of Law Anti-ICE Protesters Get 30 to 100 Years on Terrorism Charges June 23, 2026 Economy Judge Voids SNAP Food Restrictions in 5 States. 23 More Waivers Still Pending. June 23, 2026 Education Mississippi Ranked Last in Child Well-Being. It Ranked 16th in Education. June 23, 2026 Reproductive Rights Two Years After Dobbs, 62 Million Women Live Under Abortion Bans and Maternal Deaths Are Rising June 23, 2026 Reproductive Rights South Dakota Schools Must Show Anti-Abortion Video. Law Takes Effect July 1. June 22, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Delaware Signed SB 250. LGBTQ+ Parents No Longer Need Court to Prove Parentage. June 22, 2026 Voting Mississippi Gov. Must Set Hinds County Special Election Date June 22, 2026 Healthcare 5 Iowa Clinics Closed Since Medicaid Cuts. 110,000 More Could Lose Coverage. June 22, 2026 Housing Senate Passes a Bipartisan Housing Bill 85-5, Capping Wall Street Buyers Updated June 24, 2026 Voting Supreme Court Lets 7 States Bar Private Voting Rights Lawsuits June 22, 2026 Voting Judge Blocks Trump's Voter Database That Flagged Citizens as Noncitizens June 22, 2026 Housing Massachusetts Housing Secretary Says State Will Hit Its 222,000-Unit Goal June 22, 2026 Rule of Law The DOJ Subpoenaed Tim Walz Over an ICE Crackdown. A Judge Called It Unlawful Retaliation. June 22, 2026 Housing Joe Lonsdale's Think Tank Drafted the Homeless Camping Bans. Eight States Passed Them. Updated June 30, 2026 Healthcare Arkansas Lost 8 Labor & Delivery Units Since 2020. Some Mothers Now Drive 48 Minutes. June 22, 2026 Education 45% Insurance Hike Hits 130 WA School Districts. Sex Abuse Claims Are the Cause. June 22, 2026 Voting CA's June Primary Took a Week to Call. Democrats Won't Speed It Up. June 22, 2026 Voting Illinois Sen. Linda Holmes Ends Her 20-Year Career, Citing Multiple Sclerosis. June 22, 2026 LGBTQ Rights NH Vetoed the Anti-Trans Bill a 4th Time Since 2024. Ayotte Said No Again. June 22, 2026 Red States NH Gov. Ayotte Blocked Fish & Game Fees. The Politics Are Why. June 22, 2026 Voting Maryland's Primary Is the Real Election. 72 Seats Have No GOP Opponent. June 22, 2026 Healthcare Texas Family Sues to Block Brain Death Testing. New Laws May Follow. June 22, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Oklahoma Banned Public Funds for Gender-Affirming Care. Adults Lost Doctors Overnight. June 22, 2026 Voting Maryland May Redraw Congressional Maps. Special Session Deadline Is Aug. 4. June 22, 2026 Voting Maryland Bars 1 Million Voters From Its Primary. A Lawsuit May Change That. June 19, 2026 Housing Denver Water Raises Home Connection Fees 32%. New Costs Start July 1. June 19, 2026 Voting Greene County, AL Voted at 51%. The State Average Was 23%. June 19, 2026 Environment NSF Reversed Plan to Pull 900 Ocean Sensors. Senate Forced the Issue. June 19, 2026 Economy Tariffs Have Cost Michigan 13,000 Auto Jobs. More Cuts Are Coming. June 19, 2026 Immigration ICE Spent $352M on Warehouse Detention Sites. Now It's Selling Them. June 18, 2026 Economy Colorado's Family Affordability Credit Off for Two Years. It Cut Child Poverty 37%. June 18, 2026 Education Texas College Watchdog Got 69 Complaints. It Opened 1 Investigation. June 18, 2026 Healthcare Mississippi Medicaid Withholds $2.4M. A Delta Hospital May Close by June 30. June 18, 2026 Civil Rights Juneteenth Is Now a Federal Holiday. The Rights It Celebrates Are Being Dismantled. June 18, 2026 Ethics DOJ Moved to Dismiss the Pollution Suit Against xAI. Musk Was Trump's Biggest Donor. Updated June 19, 2026 Education Trump Sent Special Ed Oversight to HHS and School Civil Rights to DOJ June 17, 2026 Reproductive Rights Virginia Signed Two Contraception Bills. Spanberger Joins 24-State Reproductive Alliance. June 17, 2026 Voting Hern Wins 70% in Oklahoma Senate Primary. Democrats Head to August Runoff. June 17, 2026 Civil Rights Nevada's Prison Solitary Cells Are 45% Black. Trans Protections Lack Enforcement. June 17, 2026 Rule of Law DOJ Charges 15 Minnesota Protesters with Conspiracy. Operation Metro Surge Already Killed 2. June 17, 2026 Education Louisiana Votes Today on $168M School Cut to Fund Teacher Stipends June 17, 2026 Voting Hawaii Becomes First State to Ban Corporate Election Spending. Law Takes Effect 2027. June 17, 2026 Education Oregon to Repeal Attendance Laws. 1 in 3 Students Already Chronically Absent. June 17, 2026 Education Pa. Requires 1 Nurse Per 1,500 Students. A Bill Would Cut That Ratio in Half. June 17, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Idaho Judge Blocks Trans Bathroom Prison Law. State AG Will Appeal. June 17, 2026 Voting Shannon Wins Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Primary with 54%. Forbes Faces Him in November. June 17, 2026 Civil Rights Georgia Passed Its Maps in 72 Hours. Black Voters Lost Two Congressional Seats. June 17, 2026 Voting Texas Makes Independents Gather 81,000 Signatures. Collier Is Suing to Change That. June 16, 2026 Civil Rights Florida AG Subpoenas NFL Over 23-Year Minority Hiring Rule June 16, 2026 Ethics Disciplined Georgia Judge Exits Voter Records Case. DOJ Demanded Her Removal. June 16, 2026 Voting Georgia GOP Runoff Picks Ossoff's Challenger Today. Senate Control Is at Stake. June 16, 2026 Voting Missouri's Gerrymandered Map Reached 28 Counties. A Referendum Could Still Block It. June 16, 2026 Environment Massachusetts Signs $30M Tax Break for Sustainable Aviation Fuel June 16, 2026 Immigration Tennessee Told 400 Sick Kids' Families: Accept ICE Reporting or Lose Healthcare. June 16, 2026 Economy Oregon's Jet Fuel Tax Hasn't Changed Since 1955. Airports May Close. June 16, 2026 Housing CT Speaker Blocked the 'Golden Girls' Housing Bill. The Senate Had Passed It. June 16, 2026 Environment FEMA Paid Out $11M to Washington Flood Victims. The State Needed Twice That. June 16, 2026 Education Missouri Lost 2 Top Education Officials in May. A Nationwide Search Begins. June 16, 2026 Education UT Austin Fired KUT's General Manager After She Publicly Challenged the University June 16, 2026 Economy Your Grocery Bill Is Up $2,500 a Year. Tariffs Are Why. June 16, 2026 Rule of Law 3 Federal Laws, Criminal Sanctions, and a 250-Foot Arch Trump Can't Build Without Congress June 15, 2026 Reproductive Rights Idaho Abortion Trial Ends. Judge Will Decide if Doctors Can Act Before Death Is Certain. June 15, 2026 Foreign Policy Trump Signed a US-Iran Ceasefire. Weeks Later It Collapsed Into Strikes. Updated June 28, 2026 Healthcare Texas Defunded Gambling Addiction Help in 2004. Las Vegas Sands Is Now Filling the Gap. June 15, 2026 Education NJ Bill Moves School Aid Deadline 3 Months Earlier. Layoffs Still at Risk. June 15, 2026 Rule of Law Trump's DOJ Is Investigating Newsom and His Wife. No Crime Has Been Found. June 15, 2026 Rule of Law DOJ Is Investigating Newsom and His Wife After Comey, James, and Schiff June 15, 2026 Housing 7.1 Million Homes Short. Wyden's DASH Act Would Build More. June 15, 2026 Education Washington Fell to 31st in Education Rankings. It Was 20th a Decade Ago. June 15, 2026 Education CA Lawmakers Added $2.7B for Schools. Newsom Must Sign Off. June 15, 2026 Housing Delaware Buys DSU Dorms for $11M to Open Kent County Homeless Shelter June 15, 2026 Healthcare Missouri Medicaid Ends Chiropractic Coverage July 1. 2,000 Patients Lose Care. June 15, 2026 Housing Vermont's Childcare Gap Shrank 19%. Housing Costs Are Blocking the Rest. June 15, 2026 Immigration Trump Has Deported More Cubans in His Second Term Than All of His First. June 15, 2026 Voting Adding D.C. and Puerto Rico, Expanding the Court to 13: What Each Side Argues June 15, 2026 Environment Texas GOP's Convention Elephant Came From a Repeatedly Cited Exhibitor June 14, 2026 Ethics Vance Chaired Situation Room Meetings to Kill the Epstein Story, Book Reports June 14, 2026 Healthcare Nara Organics Baby Formula Recalled. 3 Infants Hospitalized With Botulism. Updated July 3, 2026 Voting 3.6 Million U.S. Territory Residents Have No Vote for President. June 14, 2026 Immigration ICE Raids Hit LA a Year Ago. The City Still Has Open Wounds. June 14, 2026 Civil Rights O'Shae Sibley's Killer Convicted of Hate Crime. Nancy Mace Finishes 5th. June 14, 2026 Civil Rights Judge Orders Trump to Restore Slavery and Civil Rights Exhibits to National Parks June 14, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Trump's HIV Program Rules Now Bar Trans Care. Lambda Legal Filed Suit. June 13, 2026 Rule of Law Trump's Name Is Off the Kennedy Center. Court Order Enforced. June 13, 2026 Education Arizona GOP Blocked Voucher Reforms With a Hidden Constitutional Clause June 13, 2026 Public Workers GAO: Probationary Federal Workers Fired at 19% Rate. Over 50,000 Lost Jobs. June 13, 2026 Voting NC Republicans Cut NC State Early Voting Site Used in 5 Elections June 13, 2026 Red States Arizona GOP Voted at 4 a.m. to Bypass Gov. Hobbs. Measures Go to November Ballot. June 13, 2026 Healthcare CMS Added Iowa Nursing Home to Worst-Care List After Resident Died June 13, 2026 Voting Lahn Picks Wulf for Iowa Lt. Governor. Primary Margin Was Under 1 Point. June 13, 2026 Voting FBI Raided an Ohio Voting Rights Group. Midterms Are 5 Months Away. June 13, 2026 Housing 3 Coast Guard Icebreakers Head to Alaska. Cities Have Until 2028 to Build Housing. June 13, 2026 Ethics SpaceX Raised $75 Billion Today. Its Owner Is the Third-Largest Midterm Donor. June 12, 2026 Environment YETI Co-Founder Co-Owns the Big Bend Ranch Facilitating Trump's Wall Updated June 17, 2026 Red States Dan Patrick Built His Career on Faith. He Told a Fellow Christian He'll Go to Hell. Updated June 13, 2026 Ethics One Company Will Own CNN, CBS, and HBO. Trump's DOJ Just Cleared It. June 12, 2026 Reproductive Rights Ohio Bill Would Mandate 24-Hour Abortion Wait. Doctors Call It Discriminatory. June 12, 2026 Red States Paxton Threatens Big 12 With $200M Suit Over QB Gambling Ban June 12, 2026 Red States Texas GOP Chair Abraham George Ousted. D'rinda Randall Now Leads State Party. Updated June 14, 2026 Environment 54 Counties Can Block Landfills. Tennessee May Take That Power Away. June 12, 2026 Environment Louisiana Tops the U.S. in Carbon Storage. Corporations Got Eminent Domain to Do It. June 12, 2026 Civil Rights CA Police Shooting Probes Average 2.5 Years. No Officer Ever Charged. June 12, 2026 Environment Corpus Christi Faces 2027 Water Cutoffs. Abbott Threatens City Takeover. June 12, 2026 Civil Rights Georgia Republicans Blocked Kemp's Redistricting Session. The Black Districts Survive, For Now. Updated June 17, 2026 Voting South Carolina Governor Primary Headed to Runoff. Nancy Mace Finished Last After Defying Trump on Epstein Files. June 11, 2026 Rule of Law The House Failed to Extend FISA 702 Too. The Surveillance Law Lapsed for the First Time. June 11, 2026 Environment Trump Opened All 5 U.S. Marine Monuments to Commercial Fishing. Courts Already Ruled It Illegal. June 11, 2026 Education Teachers Earn 27% Less Than Other College Grads. The Shortage Is Not a Mystery. June 11, 2026 Rule of Law The Senate Blocked Warrantless Surveillance Renewal. The Reason Was Bill Pulte. June 10, 2026 Housing HUD Tried to Cut $26 Billion in Housing Aid. 170,000 People Almost Lost Their Homes. June 10, 2026 Voting Nevada Governor Race Set. Lombardo Leads Ford 40-37 in a Tossup. June 10, 2026 Voting Becerra and Hilton Win California Primary. DOJ Fraud Probe Has Zero Evidence. Updated June 12, 2026 Voting Maine Senate Race Set: Platner Wins Primary as Collins Falls to Record-Low 38% Updated June 12, 2026 Environment Screwworm Is Back in the U.S. for the First Time in 60 Years. The Agency That Kept It Out Lost 25% of Its Staff. Updated June 13, 2026 Reproductive Rights The Federal Government Cut Off 842,000 People From Birth Control and Cancer Screenings Updated June 18, 2026 Immigration Oregon's New Immigration Shield Laws Protect Workers, Tenants, and Hospital Patients from Federal Enforcement June 8, 2026 Civil Rights Delaware Cleared 64,000 Criminal Records in One Automated Batch. Over 1 Million Remain. June 8, 2026 Immigration Indiana's FAIRNESS Act Takes Effect July 1. Every Local Agency Must Honor ICE Detainers. June 8, 2026 Foreign Policy Trump Said 'I'm Not Going to Start a War.' Now He Says He Never Promised That. June 8, 2026 Economy 28,000 Nevadans Lost Food Assistance This Month. 147,000 More Face Medicaid Work Requirements in January. Updated June 29, 2026 Immigration DOJ Moves to Strip Citizenship from 17 Naturalized Americans June 8, 2026 Voting Kansas Legislature Overrides Governor's Veto on Voter Purge Law Before August Primary June 8, 2026 Immigration Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump's $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee June 8, 2026 Healthcare 65,000 Massachusetts Residents Lose Healthcare Coordination as Medicaid Cuts Close All 20 Community Partner Programs June 8, 2026 Immigration Judge Vacates USCIS Benefit Freeze Covering 39 Countries June 8, 2026 Voting A USPS Rule Could Block 46 Million Mail Voters. The Comment Deadline Is July 2. Updated June 24, 2026 Environment 1-2 Million Large Animals Die on U.S. Roads Every Year. Crossings Reduce Collisions by Up to 97%. June 7, 2026 Ethics Trump Pardoned a Congressman Convicted of Insider Trading. Steve Buyer Made $354,027 on Illegal Stock Trades. June 6, 2026 Public Workers The Federal Workers Who Left Had 30 Years of Experience. The Ones Who Stayed Have 10. June 6, 2026 Reproductive Rights Pennsylvania's 44-Year Medicaid Abortion Ban Is Unconstitutional. A Court Just Said So. June 5, 2026 Gun Safety 13 Virginia Prosecutors Say They Won't Enforce the State's New Assault Weapons Ban. Updated June 25, 2026 Immigration Texas Can Now Arrest and Deport People Without Federal Authorization. A Federal Appeals Court Just Said So. June 5, 2026 Voting Becerra and Hilton Advance in California Governor's Race. The Policy Stakes Are Enormous. Updated June 12, 2026 Immigration Senate Passes $70 Billion for ICE and Border Patrol After Overnight Fight Over Trump's Settlement Fund June 5, 2026 Ethics Bondi Tells Congress Blanche Controlled the Epstein Files. Then She Blocked Questions About Trump. June 5, 2026 Immigration Federal Judge Strikes Down USCIS Freeze That Blocked Green Cards for 39 Countries June 5, 2026 Economy Texas Data Centers Will Use More Water Than 6 Million Households by 2030. Corpus Christi Is Already Running Out. Updated June 30, 2026 Rule of Law The DOJ Is Investigating the Woman a Jury Said Trump Sexually Abused June 5, 2026 Gun Safety A Woman Is Shot and Killed by an Intimate Partner Every 12 Hours. The Boyfriend Loophole Lets Abusers Keep Their Guns. June 5, 2026 Healthcare The FDA Closed Two of Its Seven Food Testing Labs. The Last Major Recall Took Three Weeks Longer Than Normal. June 5, 2026 Environment Trump Administration Dismantles $368 Million Ocean Monitoring Network June 4, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Texas Children's Hospital Must Open a Detransition Clinic and Pay $10 Million Under AG Settlement June 4, 2026 Environment Trump Uses Wartime Powers to Spend $700 Million Propping Up Coal June 4, 2026 Gun Safety Brady Sued ATF for Records on the Largest Sellers of Crime Guns. ATF Refused to Release Them. June 4, 2026 Gun Safety Firearms Are the Leading Cause of Death for American Children. The U.S. Accounts for 97% of Child Gun Deaths Among Peer Nations. June 4, 2026 Public Workers Trump Reclassified 8,000 Federal Workers as At-Will Employees. They Can Now Be Fired Without Cause. Updated June 17, 2026 Civil Rights Alabama Defied a Court Order to Draw a Second Black District. The Supreme Court Let Them. June 3, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Paxton Sued Denton Over a Pride Pool Party. The City Had Already Complied With the Law. June 3, 2026 Immigration The White House Published an Official Site Comparing Immigrants to Extraterrestrials. It Used the Pronoun 'It.' June 3, 2026 Environment The EPA Has Reversed a Generation of Clean Air and Water Rules. Here Is What Is Gone. June 3, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 65% of Fortune 500 Companies Dropped Out of LGBTQ Equality Ratings. Workers Are Paying the Price. June 3, 2026 Public Workers Trump Appointed Housing Official with No Intel Experience as Spy Chief Updated June 17, 2026 Ethics DOJ Investigating George Santos for Insider Trading on Kalshi Bets Updated June 12, 2026 Economy Trump Proposes 25% Tariffs on Brazil Despite US Trade Surplus June 2, 2026 Rule of Law Trump's $1.8B Anti-Weaponization Fund Scrapped by DOJ Updated June 4, 2026 Ethics CBS Fired Scott Pelley for Defending 60 Minutes. 70 Journalists Were Already Gone. June 2, 2026 Economy Democrats Block Trump Plan to Add Crypto to 401(k)s. $14.2T at Risk. June 2, 2026 Rule of Law The Administration Froze $410 Billion in State Funding. Courts Ruled Against It More Than Half the Time. June 2, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 14 States Let Adoption Agencies Turn Away LGBTQ Families. 125,000 Kids Are Waiting. June 2, 2026 Rule of Law 48 National Emergencies Are Active Right Now. The Oldest Is From 1979. Congress Has Never Ended One. June 2, 2026 Housing 2.5 Million Families Wait for Housing Vouchers While Congress Debates Cutting 400,000 More June 2, 2026 Red States Missouri Voters Legalized Abortion and Sick Leave. The Legislature Is Reversing Both. June 1, 2026 Housing 3.7 Million Could Lose Rental Assistance to New Work Requirements. Half Are Children. June 1, 2026 Economy Gas Hit $4.32 After Iran Threatened Hormuz Closure. $5 Triggers a Recession. Updated June 23, 2026 Public Workers Judge Blocks Transfer of NCAR Supercomputer. Calls It Retaliation Against Colorado. June 1, 2026 Housing The U.S. Is Short 7.2 Million Affordable Homes. The Minimum Wage Covers Less Than Half the Rent. June 1, 2026 Voting Abortion Rights Have Won Every Ballot Measure Since Dobbs. Legislatures Are Rewriting the Rules to Stop That. Updated June 12, 2026 Economy Childcare Costs $10,000+ Per Year. Only 16% of Eligible Children Get Help. One State Made It Free. June 1, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 23 States Banned Conversion Therapy. The Supreme Court Just Made Those Bans Harder to Defend. June 1, 2026 Voting State AGs, Secretaries of State, and Legislatures Have More Power Over Your Life Than Congress. Here Is Who Is Running. Updated June 2, 2026 Voting 17 Governor Seats Have No Incumbent in 2026. Those Races Will Decide Medicaid, Abortion, and Redistricting for 4 Years. June 1, 2026 Education Head Start Serves 833,000 Children. Five Regional Offices Just Closed. June 1, 2026 Immigration Maryland Jails Cannot Hold People for ICE Without a Warrant June 1, 2026 Civil Rights Pentagon Bars Journalists From Press Office. Cites Classified Redesignation. June 1, 2026 Voting Democrats Need 4 Seats to Flip the Senate. Republicans Are Defending 22. June 1, 2026 Voting 32 States Are Electing Supreme Court Justices in 2026. Most Voters Cannot Name a Single Candidate. June 1, 2026 Voting Election Clerk Tina Peters Released After Trump Pressure Campaign June 1, 2026 Rule of Law DOJ Will Comply With Court Ruling Halting Trump's $1.8B Fund June 1, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Appeals Court Rules Trump Transgender Military Ban Unconstitutional June 1, 2026 Education Oklahoma Mandated Bible Instruction. Louisiana Required Ten Commandments in Every Classroom. May 31, 2026 Education The Federal Voucher Program Is a $26 Billion Wealth Transfer to Families Already in Private School May 31, 2026 Housing 771,480 People Were Homeless on a Single Night. Family Homelessness Jumped 39% in One Year. May 31, 2026 Rule of Law The DOJ Said It Would End Two-Tier Justice. Then It Built One. May 31, 2026 Economy Corporate Profits Hit Record Highs While Your Grocery Bill Rose $2,500. May 31, 2026 Housing Corporate Landlords File Evictions at 3.7x the Rate of Small Landlords. One Company Filed 550 Cases in a Year. May 30, 2026 Economy The CFPB Returned $17.5 Billion to Consumers. Then It Was Defunded. May 30, 2026 Reproductive Rights The Comstock Act of 1873 Could Ban Medication Abortion Nationwide. The Supreme Court Blocked It 7-2. May 30, 2026 Gun Safety Ghost Gun Recoveries Surged 1,600% in Six Years. The Rule That Would Have Stopped It Was Reversed. Updated June 1, 2026 Immigration ICE Agents Are Conducting Raids in Masks. No Federal Law Requires Them to Identify Themselves. May 30, 2026 LGBTQ Rights The Lavender Scare Fired 10,000 Federal Workers. The Pattern Has Not Changed. May 30, 2026 Economy Workers Won 72% of Union Elections. Then the NLRB Was Left Without a Quorum for 345 Days. May 30, 2026 Ethics The SEC's Top Enforcement Official Quit After Political Appointees Killed Cases Tied to Trump May 30, 2026 Reproductive Rights Maternal Mortality Rose 56% in Texas After the Abortion Ban. In States Without Bans, It Fell 21%. May 30, 2026 Voting 8 States Now Require Papers to Vote. More Bills Are Coming. May 30, 2026 Civil Rights 19 Congressional Seats, 191 State Seats: The Nationwide Cost of Callais Updated June 3, 2026 Rule of Law Career Prosecutors Keep Quitting the Cases Political Appointees Keep Filing May 29, 2026 Immigration 155,000 Farm Workers Disappeared. Crops Rotted in the Fields. May 29, 2026 Immigration They Paid $96.7 Billion in Taxes. The Government Told Them to Leave. May 29, 2026 Immigration ICE Arrested 393,000 People Last Year. 39% Had No Criminal Record. Updated June 23, 2026 Voting An Executive Order Could Block 46 Million Mail Voters. A Federal Judge Declined to Stop It. May 28, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 22 States Say You Exist on Paper. 6 Changed Their Mind. The Federal Government Says Neither. May 28, 2026 Foreign Policy The President Said He Would 'Be the One' to Invade Cuba. The U.S. Is Already Blockading Its Oil. May 28, 2026 Civil Rights False News Spreads 6 Times Faster Than the Truth. The Algorithm Is Not Broken. It Is Working as Designed. Updated June 12, 2026 Ethics Fox News Paid $787.5 Million for Lying About the Election. Then Kept Broadcasting the Lies. May 28, 2026 Civil Rights 2,900 Newspapers Closed Since 2005. 212 Counties Have No News Source at All. Social Media Fills the Gap. May 28, 2026 Economy The Federal Minimum Wage Has Not Increased Since 2009. Adjusted for Inflation, It Is Worth Less Than in 1949. May 28, 2026 Rule of Law 530 Lawsuits. $1 Billion in Donations. The Organizations Fighting Back. May 28, 2026 Civil Rights U.S. Press Freedom Dropped to 64th in the World. It Fell 7 Places in One Year. Updated June 2, 2026 Immigration Red States Are Turning Social Workers Into Immigration Agents May 28, 2026 Immigration New York Just Banned Local Police From Working With ICE Updated June 11, 2026 Public Workers Newark Airport Is Getting Hit From Three Directions at Once Updated June 8, 2026 Voting Virginia Passed an Assault Weapons Ban, Put Abortion Rights on the Ballot, and Banned Police From Working With ICE May 27, 2026 Voting Ruby Freeman Packed Up and Left the Home She Lived in for 20 Years. She Was a Poll Worker Who Counted Votes. May 27, 2026 Immigration Trump Told Banks to Treat Immigrants as Financial Risks May 27, 2026 Rule of Law 564 Threats Against Federal Judges in One Year. One Was Told 'Trump Has Pardons and Tanks. What Do You Have?' May 27, 2026 Healthcare She Was Working When They Cut Her Medicaid. Arkansas Proved Work Requirements Don't Work. Congress Is Imposing Them Anyway. Updated June 29, 2026 Rule of Law Milley Called It Fascism. Kelly Confirmed the Definition. Hegseth Fired Two Dozen Generals. May 27, 2026 Public Workers NOAA Lost 2,000 Employees and Suspended Weather Balloon Launches. Hurricane Season Starts June 1. May 27, 2026 Healthcare 180 Public Health Leaders Left in the Largest Exodus in American History. Armed Protesters Showed Up at Their Homes. Updated June 9, 2026 Ethics 47 Former Lobbyists Run the Agencies They Used to Lobby. There Is No Ethics Rule Stopping Them. May 27, 2026 Education 86 School Board Members Resigned in Minnesota Alone. Their Replacements Changed the Curriculum. May 27, 2026 Economy Arizona Lost 49% of Its SNAP Caseload in Six Months. 474,000 People Stopped Receiving Food Assistance. Updated June 19, 2026 Gun Safety Six States Have Made It a Crime to Enforce Red Flag Laws. Three More Are Moving Bills. Updated June 1, 2026 Gun Safety The Virginia Plan Is the Most Comprehensive Federal Gun Bill in a Decade May 26, 2026 Rule of Law The Government Is Erasing January 6 Records While Building a Fund to Pay the Attackers May 26, 2026 Voting Republicans Drew Greg Casar Out of His Own District. Democrats Are Trying to Hold It Anyway. May 26, 2026 Red States Johnson vs. Middleton: The November Fight for Texas Attorney General Updated May 27, 2026 Voting Project 2025 Is 53% Done. The Progressive Counter-Agenda Exists in Five Places Nobody Has Read. May 26, 2026 Voting Paxton Won the Runoff. Talarico Gets the Matchup Democrats Wanted. Updated May 26, 2026 Public Workers The IRS Lost 27% of Its Workforce. Tax Processing Times Have Doubled. May 26, 2026 Healthcare Adrian McGonigal Worked at a Chicken Plant and Reported His Hours. The State Cut His Medicaid Anyway. He Died. Updated June 29, 2026 Healthcare RFK Jr. Runs HHS. Measles Cases Hit a 30-Year High. Two Children Died in Texas. Updated June 10, 2026 Environment Vermont Banned Paraquat. It's the First U.S. State to Do So. May 26, 2026 Rule of Law Erdogan Fired 160,000 Government Workers After a Failed Coup. DOGE Fired 260,000 Without One. May 25, 2026 Rule of Law Every Authoritarian Government in the Last Century Used the Same 5 Steps. Here Is Where the U.S. Is on the List. May 25, 2026 Immigration USCIS Tells 1.2 Million Legal Immigrants to Leave the Country or Lose Their Green Card May 25, 2026 LGBTQ Rights They Came Out at 14. Their Grandparents Waited Until 37. Now Both Generations Are Watching the Same Rights Disappear. May 25, 2026 Education Project 2025 Called for Eliminating the Department of Education. Here Is How Far They Got. May 25, 2026 Foreign Policy The Administration Sanctioned 11 International Court Judges and a Sitting President. Then Eased Sanctions on Russia. May 25, 2026 Voting 21.3 Million Americans Cannot Prove Their Citizenship to Register to Vote. That Is the Point. May 25, 2026 Rule of Law It Took 5 Months to Go From Coalition Government to One-Party State. Weimar Germany's Timeline Should Sound Familiar. May 25, 2026 Immigration DHS Is Drawing Up Plans to Ground International Flights at 10 Major Airports Updated May 27, 2026 Public Workers DOGE Claims $215 Billion in Savings While Congress Adds $3.4 Trillion in New Debt May 24, 2026 Education Taxpayers Are Spending $10 Billion on Private School Vouchers Across 18 States May 24, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Texas Is Removing Rainbow Crosswalks That Are Statistically Safer Than the Ones Replacing Them May 24, 2026 Rule of Law More Than Half of Project 2025 Is Already Underway. Here Is the Full Scorecard. May 24, 2026 Foreign Policy 80 Ambassador Posts Are Empty. China Has 20. The U.S. Is Running Diplomacy With Nobody in the Room. May 24, 2026 Ethics Hawaii Found a Way Around Citizens United. Other States Tried and Failed. May 24, 2026 Red States Louisiana Reversed Its Prison Reforms. Now the Bill Is Coming Due. May 24, 2026 Red States Texas Added 40,000 MW to the Grid After Uri Killed 700 People. The Weatherization Audit Found 2 Violations in 8,732 Inspections. May 24, 2026 Ethics Trump Endorsed the Most Indicted Man in Texas for the U.S. Senate Updated June 9, 2026 Voting Every Missouri Ballot Initiative Since 2020 Would Have Failed Under the Legislature's New Rules Updated June 12, 2026 Immigration Tennessee Just Turned Every County Jail Into an ICE Outpost May 23, 2026 Immigration The Federal Government Told ICE to Empty Torrance County Detention in 2022 and ICE Just Sent More People Updated June 17, 2026 Education Eighteen States Spend Billions on Vouchers With Almost No Oversight May 23, 2026 Foreign Policy The U.S. Pulled 5,000 Troops From Europe. NATO Allies Responded by Spending $574 Billion on Defense. May 23, 2026 Immigration Texas Spent $11.1 Billion on Operation Lone Star. It Built 8% of Its Border Wall. 17 Guard Members Died. May 23, 2026 Voting South Dakota Passed 11 Laws to Restrict Ballot Measures in 6 Years May 23, 2026 Gun Safety States Are Passing Gun Safety Laws That Congress Will Not Touch May 23, 2026 Housing Every New Home Now Costs $17,500 More Because of Tariffs May 23, 2026 Reproductive Rights Reproductive Rights Are Under Coordinated Federal and State Attack. Here Is Where Things Stand. Updated June 24, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Austin Submitted Its Crosswalk Removal Plan on Deadline Day and Got Nothing in Return May 22, 2026 Foreign Policy Trump Threatened Military Force for Greenland and Said 'We're Taking Back' the Panama Canal. Both Countries Said No. May 22, 2026 Healthcare $911 Billion in Medicaid Cuts Are Now Law. Here's What Hits First. Updated June 29, 2026 Voting Michigan's November Ballot Has Two Competing Visions for Voting Rights May 22, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Cafe Lafitte Opened in 1933. Giovanni's Room in 1973. They Are Still Here. May 22, 2026 Red States Red-State Attorneys General Are Waging Culture Wars With Public Money and Subpoena Power May 21, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 27 States Have Banned Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth. The Federal Government Wants to Make It Worse. May 21, 2026 Ethics The Corruption Is Not a Series of Scandals. It Is a System. May 21, 2026 Environment The Interior Department Banned Bison From Public Land. Tribes and Conservationists Are Fighting Back. May 21, 2026 Healthcare RFK Jr. Is Gutting Public Health Agencies. A Federal Judge Already Called It Illegal. May 21, 2026 Rule of Law The Executive Branch Is Testing How Much It Can Get Away With May 21, 2026 Economy Social Security Offices Are Closing. Benefits Are Harder to Get. Congress Can Stop It. May 21, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 92% of Anti-LGBTQ Bills Fail Every Year. Here Is How Advocates Stop Them. May 21, 2026 Ethics $9 Billion to a Contractor Whose Wall Almost Collapsed May 21, 2026 Foreign Policy Congress Passed a War Powers Resolution on Iran. Trump Can Ignore It. Updated June 28, 2026 Gun Safety 29 States Now Let You Carry a Loaded Gun Without a Permit. Congress Wants to Make It Nationwide. May 21, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 18 States Built a Shield. Families Are Driving 8 Hours to Reach One. May 21, 2026 Environment The Trump Administration Sold Off Alaska's Public Lands Faster Than Any President in Modern History May 20, 2026 Gun Safety The Gun Industry Has a Legal Shield No Other Industry Has. Mexico's $10 Billion Lawsuit Just Hit It. May 20, 2026 Civil Rights Maricopa County Billed $163 Million in Racial Profiling Reform Money to Golf Carts, Cable TV, and Office Renovations May 20, 2026 Environment 176 Million Americans Have PFAS in Their Tap Water. The EPA Just Rolled Back the Rules That Would Have Fixed It. Updated May 30, 2026 Environment 176 Million Americans Drink PFAS-Contaminated Water. EPA Just Made It Worse. May 20, 2026 Ethics Trump Has Made More From the Presidency Than From Real Estate. Here Are the Numbers. Updated June 30, 2026 Foreign Policy The Trump Administration Killed USAID. A Lancet Study Says 9.4 Million People Could Die by 2030. May 20, 2026 Economy West Virginia Wants Data Centers. Residents Are Asking Who Pays the Electric Bill. Updated June 18, 2026 Voting 191 State Legislative Seats Are at Risk of Losing Black Representation. Federal Preclearance Would Stop It. Updated June 6, 2026 Voting 38% of Election Workers Reported Threats in 2024. One in Five Quit. May 19, 2026 Immigration 18 People Died in Immigration Detention This Year. The Watchdog Has Zero Funding. May 19, 2026 Ethics The Administration Redirected $1.8 Billion Into a Fund for January 6 Defendants. Capitol Police Got Nothing. Updated June 17, 2026 Ethics Delaware's Progressive Democrats Are Challenging the State's Corporate Law Machine May 19, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 2,000 Calls a Month Became 70,000. Then the Government Shut It Down. May 18, 2026 Public Workers Schedule F Is Back Under a New Name. Tell Congress to Fight It. Updated June 17, 2026 LGBTQ Rights The Transgender Military Ban Is Back. Ask Your Senators Where They Stand. Updated June 29, 2026 Education 23,000 Books Banned From U.S. Schools Since 2021. Here Is Who Did It. May 15, 2026 Healthcare Fluoride. Vaccines. Raw Milk. Three Conspiracy Theories That Became Federal Health Policy. Updated June 10, 2026 Healthcare Japan Stopped Vaccinating for Pertussis. Cases Went From 400 to 13,000 and 113 Children Died. Updated June 10, 2026 Rule of Law 262 Court Losses. 753 Lawsuits. The Courts Are Saying the Same Three Things. May 15, 2026 Gun Safety 134 Mass Shootings in Four Months. That Is 3.6% of All Gun Deaths. May 15, 2026 Healthcare NIH Funding Cuts Have Halted 383 Clinical Trials and Put 74,000 Patients at Risk May 15, 2026 Education Oklahoma Ranked Dead Last in Education While Spending $248 Million on Private School Vouchers May 15, 2026 Civil Rights 800,000 People Work in American Prisons for Pennies an Hour Because the Constitution Says They Can May 15, 2026 Healthcare One-Third of Rural Hospitals Could Close. Congress Just Made It Worse. May 15, 2026 Economy 4.3 Million Americans Lost Food Assistance in Six Months. Congress Planned It That Way. Updated June 30, 2026 Economy Tariffs Added $2,500 to the Average Family's Grocery Bill. Tomatoes Are Up 40%. May 15, 2026 Public Workers The VA Lost 40,000 Workers in One Year. Veterans Are Waiting Months to See a Doctor. Updated June 3, 2026 Education Arizona's Voucher Program Was Supposed to Cost $65 Million. It Hit $1 Billion. The Auditor Found 'Haphazard' Oversight. May 14, 2026 Rule of Law Trump Fired 17 Inspectors General in One Night and Courts Refused to Reinstate Them May 14, 2026 LGBTQ Rights The Data Is In. Anti-LGBTQ Laws Are Making Kids Sick. May 13, 2026 Education Texas TEFA Vouchers Are Here. Parents Still Need the Tradeoffs. Updated June 16, 2026 Healthcare The FDA Lost 3,500 Employees on a Single Day. Drug Approval Rates Dropped to Their Lowest in Six Quarters. May 11, 2026 Economy The One Big Beautiful Bill Turns One. Here Are the 10 Provisions That Changed the Most. May 10, 2026 Rule of Law 1,600 Pardons in 16 Months. The Pattern Is the Point. May 9, 2026 Voting Ohio and Texas Are Purging Voter Rolls With Broken Data Before the Midterms Updated June 18, 2026 Healthcare Arkansas Proved Medicaid Work Requirements Don't Work. Congress Made Them National Law Anyway. Updated June 29, 2026 LGBTQ Rights Amy Heutmaker Got Death Threats for Running as a Trans Woman in Rural Ohio. Then She Won. May 7, 2026 Civil Rights Five States Are Eliminating Black Districts. Louisiana Just Approved the Map That Started It. Updated May 31, 2026 Economy The Key Bridge Rebuild Has Doubled in Cost and Lost Its Contractor. Taxpayers Are on the Hook. May 6, 2026 Reproductive Rights Alabama Declared Frozen Embryos Are Children. Now the Same Legal Logic Is Spreading to a Dozen More States. May 5, 2026 Public Workers The VA Lost 40,000 Employees. 88% Treated Veterans. Neurology Wait Times Went From 27 Days to 127. May 4, 2026 Voting The SAVE Act Would Block 21 Million Citizens From Registering to Vote. It Has Bipartisan Branding and a One-Sided Effect. Updated June 24, 2026 Voting 36 Governor Seats, 34 Senate Races, and Your Rights on the Ballot This November May 2, 2026 Reproductive Rights Idaho Lost a Third of Its OB-GYNs After the Abortion Ban and Other States Are Next May 2, 2026 LGBTQ Rights They Stayed. Trans Families in Texas Built the Support System the State Refused to Provide. May 1, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 463 Anti-Trans Hate Crimes Recorded. The DOJ Removed Gender Identity From Its Surveys. Updated June 9, 2026 Reproductive Rights 450,000 IVF Cycles Per Year. Personhood Bills in Over a Dozen States Could Make Standard Fertility Care Illegal. April 30, 2026 Rule of Law Vermont Let Residents Sue Federal Agents for Excessive Force April 30, 2026 Education 23,000 Books Banned Since 2021. 92% of the Challenges Come From Pressure Groups, Not Parents. April 28, 2026 Environment The National Flood Insurance Program Expires September 30. 40,000 Home Closings Per Month Would Freeze. April 25, 2026 Rule of Law Three Independent Organizations Downgraded American Democracy in 2026. All Three Used Different Methods. All Three Reached the Same Conclusion. April 24, 2026 Immigration Mahmoud Khalil Organized a Protest at Columbia. ICE Detained Him for 104 Days Without Charges. April 22, 2026 Ethics Dark Money Hit $1.9 Billion in 2024. It Was the Most Secretive Election Since Citizens United. April 21, 2026 Education The Department of Education Lost Half Its Staff. $900 Million in Research Contracts Were Terminated. April 21, 2026 Environment The BLM Gave the Public 7 Days to Comment on Reopening 336,400 Acres Near Chaco Canyon to Drilling April 20, 2026 Housing Your Landlord's Algorithm Set Your Rent. The DOJ Settled for a Slap on the Wrist. April 19, 2026 Reproductive Rights Colorado Built the Strongest Reproductive Rights Framework in the Country and Other States Can Copy It April 18, 2026 Red States 25 States Block Cities From Raising the Minimum Wage. 45 Block Local Gun Laws. Tennessee Banned All Local Employment Regulation. April 18, 2026 Immigration 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids Lost a Parent to ICE Detention in Seven Months April 16, 2026 Public Workers The Social Security Administration Lost 7,500 Employees in One Year. Some Offices Closed Their Doors for Weeks. April 16, 2026 Healthcare The CDC Lost a Third of Its Staff. The Administration Proposed Cutting It by 53%. Disease Surveillance Failed. April 15, 2026 Housing New York Has 140,000 People in Shelters and a 0.39% Vacancy Rate for Affordable Apartments April 15, 2026 Housing One Algorithm Set Rent for 16 Million Apartments. The DOJ Called It Price-Fixing. April 15, 2026 Education 411,000 Teaching Positions Are Vacant or Filled by Unqualified Staff. Teachers Make 27% Less Than Other College Grads. Updated June 30, 2026 Education In 1933, Students Burned 25,000 Books in Berlin. In 2025, Pressure Groups Banned 22,810 in American Schools. April 13, 2026 Ethics The CFPB Had 1,700 Employees and Returned $6.2 Billion to Consumers. Then It Was Gutted to 200. April 12, 2026 Ethics 8 Claims. 8 Fact Checks. The Gap Between What They Said and What the Data Shows. April 11, 2026 Reproductive Rights 842,000 People Lost Access to Birth Control and Cancer Screenings When Title X Was Frozen in 23 States April 11, 2026 Reproductive Rights 50 Planned Parenthood Clinics Closed. Congress Defunded Medicaid Payments in 39 States. Patients Lost Cancer Screenings. April 9, 2026 Gun Safety Gun Violence Costs $557 Billion a Year. 60% of the Deaths Are Suicides Nobody Talks About. April 8, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 4 Organizations Write the Bills. 29 States Pass Them. $215 Million in Ads Sell Them. April 7, 2026 Reproductive Rights Idaho Lost 35% of Its OB-GYNs in 28 Months. Now Women Drive 60 Miles on Roads Without Cell Service to Deliver. April 7, 2026 Ethics A Supreme Court Justice's Son Worked Secretly at Treasury While His Father Voted on a Treasury Case April 5, 2026 Housing 2.3 Million Families Have Section 8 Vouchers. The Waitlist Is 10 Years Long in Some Cities. April 5, 2026 Civil Rights Alabama Spent $57 Million on Lawyers to Defend Prison Conditions the DOJ Called Unconstitutional April 4, 2026 Rule of Law Democratic AGs Filed 100 Lawsuits Against the Administration. They Won 82% of the Cases That Were Decided. April 3, 2026 Gun Safety For Every 17 Red Flag Orders Issued, One Suicide Is Prevented. Six States Are Banning Them. April 3, 2026 Rule of Law Your State Attorney General Might Be the Most Important Person Fighting Trump Right Now April 2, 2026 Reproductive Rights 155,000 People Traveled Out of State for Abortion Care in 2024. That Is Double the Number Before Dobbs. April 1, 2026 Civil Rights 800,000 Incarcerated People Work in U.S. Prisons. They Generate $11 Billion. Seven States Pay Them Nothing. March 25, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 9,398 Churches Said Yes. After Decades of Harm, Denominations Are Choosing Inclusion. March 22, 2026 Immigration 3.8 Million Immigration Cases Are Pending. The Average Wait Is 900 Days. Only 37% Have a Lawyer. March 20, 2026 Ethics Zero SEC Enforcement Actions Have Been Approved Without Political Review Since March 2025 March 16, 2026 Environment The EPA Repealed the Legal Basis for All Federal Climate Regulation. Zero Federal Carbon Limits Remain. March 15, 2026 Economy Las Vegas Tourism Dropped 7.5% and Congress Wrote a Tax Break That Excludes Most Tipped Workers March 15, 2026 Healthcare 383 Clinical Trials Halted. 74,000 Patients Lost Access to Experimental Cancer and Brain Disease Treatments. March 15, 2026 LGBTQ Rights 27 States Banned Trans Athletes. The IOC Changed Its Policy. The NCAA Reversed in 24 Hours. March 15, 2026 Healthcare 15 States Have Trigger Laws That Drop Medicaid Expansion When Federal Funding Falls March 12, 2026 Foreign Policy USAID Was Dismantled. The Lancet Projects 9.4 Million Additional Deaths by 2030. March 10, 2026 Civil Rights The DOJ Dropped Police Reform Agreements in Minneapolis and Louisville. The Cities Said They Would Keep Going Anyway. Updated June 30, 2026 Red States Oregon and Washington Passed Rent Caps, Paid Leave Expansions, and Gun Safety Laws While Congress Cut Benefits January 20, 2026 Red States ALEC Wrote 2,900 Bills. States Passed 600. One Organization Runs the Assembly Line. January 15, 2026 Foreign Policy The Senate Voted 51-50 to Let the President Invade Venezuela. VP Vance Cast the Deciding Vote. January 15, 2026 Environment Every Acre of the Arctic Refuge Is Now Open to Oil Drilling. Congress Stripped the Protections in a Budget Bill. December 20, 2025 Foreign Policy Congress Authorized Military Force After 9/11. The Authorization Has Been Used in 22 Countries Since. Updated June 28, 2026 Public Workers 75,000 Federal Workers Took the 'Fork in the Road' Deal. 125,000 More Left in September. September 15, 2025 Gun Safety Congress Eliminated the $200 Suppressor Tax. Sales Surged 73% in One Quarter. August 15, 2025 Red States 25 States Have Stripped Cities of the Right to Set Their Own Minimum Wage July 15, 2025 Healthcare Half of Maine's Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closing and Medicare Just Cut Telehealth Coverage June 15, 2025 LGBTQ Rights LGBTQ-Owned Businesses Contribute $1.7 Trillion to GDP. Anti-LGBTQ Policies Are Costing States Tourism Revenue. June 1, 2025 Environment 8,000 Climate Pages Deleted. The Scientists Were Fired. The Satellites Are Next. May 20, 2025 Housing 32 States Ban Cities From Controlling Rent. The Real Estate Lobby Spent $77 Million in California Alone. April 15, 2025 Gun Safety H.R. 38 Would Force New York to Honor Mississippi's Gun Permits. Both Major Police Organizations Oppose It. March 15, 2025 Immigration 3.8 Million Immigration Cases Pending While the Administration Cuts Court Staff January 20, 2025