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Rejecting Idea 'Soft Centrism' Can Topple McConnell, Progressive Charles Booker Launches Visionary Grassroots Campaign in Kentucky

In 'Huge Step Toward a More Inclusive, Representative Democracy,' NJ Governor Restores Voting Rights of People on Parole and Probation

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"On this historic day, New Jersey has lifted... 83,000 ghosts of democracy out of the shadows."

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Ethics Watchdogs Sound Alarm After Transportation Secretary Chao Delivers Major Federal Contract to Husband Mitch McConnell's Kentucky

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao with her husband Senator Mitch McConnell, at the White House in January 2017.

"Chao's corruption has gone unchecked for too long."

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Supreme Court Won't Hear Appeal of Kentucky's Forced Ultrasound Law, Allowing Law Intended to 'Shame' Patients Stand

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The goal is to shame and intimidate people ending pregnancies. It's scary when...

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Protestors carry signs as they demonstrate against proposed cuts to Medicaid and Medicare

Study: At Least 15,600 Premature Deaths Resulted From GOP Blocking Medicaid Expansion

'Outrageous': Sanders Condemns Kentucky GOP for Threatening to Overturn Gubernatorial Election

As Bevin Refuses to Concede, Critics Warn Kentucky GOP 'Totally Gearing Up to Steal' Gubernatorial Election

As 'Working Class Revolt' Topples Kentucky's Trump-Backed Governor, a Warning to McConnell: 'You're Next'

McConnell Brags He and Trump Are 'Changing the Federal Courts Forever' With Extreme Right-Wing Judges

Coal miners began blocking a train in Cumberland, Kentucky on July 29

'Talk About Direct Action Getting Results': Bankrupt Blackjewel Agrees to Pay Over $5 Million to Laid Off Coal Miners Who Blocked Train Tracks

'No Pay, We Stay': 23 Days Into Train Blockade Protest, Kentucky Coal Miners Demand Stolen Wages With Support of Progressives Nationwide

"He Might've Stayed a Minute": Coal Miners With Black Lung Slam McConnell for Brushing Them Off in Healthcare Meeting

Pro-choice protesters in Chicago, July 2018.

Despite Inclusive Rhetoric, Corporations Back Extremist State Legislators Waging War on Women

Happy to Engage Workers and Community on Green New Deal, Ocasio-Cortez Accepts GOP Invite to Kentucky Coal Mine

As Thousands Lose Coverage, Judge Blocks 'Inhumane' Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas and Kentucky

'Wouldn't Have Happened Without Our Movement': Climate Leaders Celebrate as McConnell Delays Cynical Green New Deal Vote

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MoveOn.org

New Ad Campaign, Banned by Gannett-Owned Outlets, Calls out Senators for Putting Profits Before People in the Coronavirus Relief Negotiations

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

Working People Win Big in Virginia and Kentucky

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Kentucky Poor People’s Campaign Shut Out of State Capitol Second Week in a Row

Food & Water Watch

New Analysis Reveals Martin County Water Crisis a Perfect Storm of Coal Industry Power, Mismanagement and Disinvestment

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Court Grants Request That Keeps Kentucky’s Last Abortion Clinic Open

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ACLU Challenges Kentucky’s New Abortion Ultrasound Law

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Chris Kromm

Southern States Take Up Fight For Bold Democracy Reforms

Hayley Farless

Supreme Court’s Newest Move on Abortion Approves Torture for Pregnant People

Sarah Lazare

Kentucky Miners Are Blocking a Coal Train for Back Pay. We Talked to One About a Just Transition.

Alexa Kolbi-Molinas

Alabama Is the Most Explicit Example of What's Been Happening to Abortion Rights for Decades

Jeff Bryant

Will Teacher Uprisings Change Democrats?

Jamila Michener

How Trump’s Medicaid Restrictions Will Stop People From Voting

Juliette Verlaque

Why I Help Escort Women to the Doors of Kentucky’s Last Abortion Clinic

Mary Bottari

Koch Astroturf Army Cheers Union Busting in Kentucky

Robert Borosage

The Test of Leadership as Sanders Rolls in Oregon

Allan Lichtman

Pass the ACHE Act and Stop Destroying Appalachia