Look, I don’t want to berate political figures on their way out the door, but it turns out Rep. Jared Golden wasn’t just placating his right flank to win re-election over the past six years. It now appears that the Democrat actually agrees with the direction Trump and MAGA are taking the country. Despite having…
Democrat Jordan Wood announced Wednesday that he’s ending his campaign for U.S. Senate and will instead run for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District seat, which Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) is vacating at the end of his term. In a video posted to Instagram, Wood said he decided to enter the House race after Golden’s surprise decision…
Thousands of Mainers turned out across the state this past weekend for a series of “No Kings” rallies protesting Pres. Donald Trump’s dramatic expansion of his own presidential power, and the threats to democracy his administration’s actions represent. In Bangor, Rockland, Portland and other towns around Maine, participants filled parks, bridges, and downtown streets, chanting,…
Mainers woke up to a federal government shutdown Wednesday morning after Republicans refused to reinstate funding for Medicaid that was cut this summer and renew the expiring Affordable Care Act premium tax credits. Another vote Wednesday had the same results. This funding is vital for low- and moderate-income working families. Without the premium tax credits,…
Faith leaders and people of faith gathered at Sen. Susan Collins’ Portland office Thursday morning to urge Collins to not vote for the continuing budget resolution until the premium tax credits that help more than 22 million people get affordable health care coverage are reinstated and funding for Medicaid and Medicare is restored. Earlier this…
The genocide in Gaza is one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed. Nearly the entire population has been displaced, food and clean water are scarce, and hospitals have collapsed. As U.S. allies like the United Kingdom, Canada, and France move to recognize Palestinian statehood, Maine’s…
On Tuesday morning, hundreds of thousands of Mainers woke up to higher electricity bills. Central Maine Power’s rate hike, its second in as many years, was largely driven by the utility’s need to recover costs from severe storms in the last few years — the type of extreme weather events that are becoming more frequent and severe due to global…
For all the Democrats in the Maine legislature, and the one sitting in the Blaine House – especially the one sitting in the Blaine House – if you oppose Donald Trump’s “Big Bill for Billionaires” because of how it shifts trillions from the working class to the wealthiest making income inequality in America even worse,…
A majority of Maine voters would be less likely to vote for Sen. Susan Collins for reelection if she were to support the House-passed federal tax and budget bill that would cut taxes for the super-rich and megacorporations by cutting spending on Medicaid and other programs including SNAP. That is according to new polling by…
Democrats should be ecstatic that former Gov. Paul LePage has moved from Florida to Maine (again!) to try to win back the second congressional district. After all, it wipes out the opportunity for another generation of Republicans to build grassroots support and name recognition. It further exposes how in lockstep the Maine Republican party is…