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Sunrise Movement Says Wins by Corporate Democrats Like McGrath and Hickenlooper Must Be 'Moment of Reckoning' for Progressives

U.S. Senate candidates Andrew Romanoff of Colorado and Charles Booker of Kentucky were defeated in Democratic primary races in June.

'A Very Strong Run,' But Booker Falls Short to Establishment-Backed McGrath in Kentucky Primary

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

"McGrath's campaign collapsed just a bit too late for Booker."

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Potential Political 'Earthquake' Brewing as Booker Takes Lead Over McGrath in Kentucky

Julia Conley, staff writer

"What's going on in Kentucky, you ask? Something big."

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'We Are On the Verge of Something Big': Late Booker Surge Against McGrath Leaves Kentucky Primary Too Close to Call

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

"This is a sign that the times are changing."

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'What Voter Suppression Looks Like': Do NY and Kentucky Primary Issues Foretell a Disaster for November?

Residents cast votes at St. Paul Methodist Church November 5, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Voting Rights Advocates Warn of Impending 'Disaster' in Kentucky After Bid to Increase Slashed Number of Polling Sites Fails

If Defeated by Booker in Democratic Primary, McGrath Urged to Hand Over Surplus Millions to Topple McConnell

A demonstrator holds a sign with the image of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department officers, during a protest against racial injustice and the death George Floyd in Minneapolis, in Denver, Colorado on June 3, 2020.

'About Damn Time': Louisville Police Chief Moves to Fire 1 of 3 Officers Involved in Breonna Taylor Shooting

Louisville Lawmakers Ban No-Knock Warrants as Advocates Escalate Demand for Arrests of Three Officers Who Killed Breonna Taylor

Kentucky's Largest Newspaper Endorses Progressive Charles Booker in Senate Race, Rejecting Corporate Democrats' Preferred Centrist

Progressive Democrat Charles Booker Gains Steam Against 'Pro-Trump Democrat' Amy McGrath in Bid to Take Down McConnell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

Together Frankfort

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

ACLU

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

ACLU

ACLU Challenges Kentucky’s New Abortion Ultrasound Law

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Carl Gibson

Booker's Loss Was Devastating. But We Can't Lose Sight of Defeating McConnell

Alan Minsky

If You Want Joe Biden to Govern More Like FDR Than Jamie Dimon, Vote for Bernie Sanders on Tuesday in New York and Kentucky

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