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September 3, 2024
Grace Segers
The Key to Flipping the Wisconsin State Legislature: Kamalamentum
Faced with a slew of challenging races in the Badger State, party officials are hoping that enthusiasm for their presidential nominee will trickle down the ballot.
June 25, 2024
Magazine
Grace Segers
How Will Montana’s Population Boom Shift Its Politics?
Can an influx of new arrivals save the state’s vulnerable Democrats?
June 14, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Florida Democrats Have Already Notched a Historic Election Win
State party leadership is getting its act together ahead of the November election.
March 25, 2024
Tori Otten
Minnesota Republican Opposes Gun Safety Bill Because Murderous Cows
Wait until you hear this state senator’s argument for killing the legislation.
August 4, 2023
Tori Otten
Pro-Gun Control Tennesse Democrats Overwhelmingly Win Reelection
State representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, who were pushed out of office by Republicans for gun control advocacy, just won landslide victories.
February 28, 2022
Ben Wikler
Why State Parties Are the First Line of Defense for Democracy
The chair of Wisconsin’s Democratic Party details how he keeps the right at bay in a crucial swing state. It isn’t easy.
September 22, 2021
Magazine
Matt Ford
Nevada’s Blue Wave
Once reliably Republican, the state has suddenly become a laboratory of progressive experimentation.
September 1, 2021
Alex Shephard
Who’s Afraid of Andrew Cuomo?
The New York governor is in exile, plotting revenge. But he has lost a staggering amount of power.
April 3, 2020
Magazine
Alan Greenblatt
The States Are Stepping Up
Imagine how much worse off we'd be if governors weren't challenging Trump’s policy of neglect.
September 19, 2019
Meaghan Winter
How Energy Companies Corrupt State Politics
Virginia's Dominion Energy gives generously to candidates to get what it wants. But a political revolt is brewing.
December 22, 2016
Alex Shephard
North Carolina is now America’s most dysfunctional state.
May 28, 2013
Alec MacGillis
This Is How the NRA Ends
A bigger, richer, meaner gun-control movement has arrived
April 12, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Meanwhile, Inside Andrew Cuomo’s Head...
It’s Mario vs. Bubba, again
March 28, 2013
Molly Redden
Fetal-Heartbeat Abortion Laws Are Dangerous Even If Judges Reject Them
January 26, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
John Calhoun is Alive and Well in Virginia
The GOP's desperate attempt to thwart the majority
January 15, 2013
Perry Stein
Guns in Churches, Psychiatric Evaluations, and Other State Laws Proposed Since Newtown
June 4, 1990
Sidney Blumenthal
The Years of Robert Caro
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