A defense contractor based in Hawaii with links to Maine is behind nearly $200,000 in illegal contributions to Sen. Susan Collins’ reelection campaign and a PAC supporting that bid, a recent search warrant by the FBI alleges. According to the warrant, Martin Kao, the former CEO of Martin’s Defense Group — formerly known as Navatek…
In December of 2015, when she was 35, Andrea Berry had a stroke. The North Yarmouth resident was working for a small consulting company, which tried to support her as she recovered. But by the end of January 2016, the company said it couldn’t do so any longer, and Berry lost that job. However, with…
When Richard Evans was campaigning in 2020 for a seat in the Maine House of Representatives in deep-red Piscataquis County, he called up a voter who had some questions for him. Evans, a Black doctor and a Democrat running in an overwhelmingly white county, started the conversation by telling the man that he would answer…
With the results now in, Esther, Ben and Mike talk about last week’s election, competing theories for how progressives can win, polling in Maine’s U.S. Senate race and Maine’s spike in COVID cases, as well as some rays of hope. Ask a question or leave a comment for a future show at (207) 619-3182. Subscribe…
The rally was nearly ready to start. Activists in more than a dozen cars were preparing to drive through the streets of Bangor on Saturday morning to demand that the voice of the voters be respected as President Donald Trump continued his desperate attempts to subvert the will of the American people. Then came the…
It’s time for Democrats to embrace progressive policies in a real way. It’s time for Democratic candidates to unequivocally support policies like Medicare-for-All, a livable (or even thriving) minimum wage, and free college because the Democratic Party needs to energize and engage voters if it is to continue to gain momentum. Surveys show that the…
Rep. Seth Berry joins the podcast this week to discuss how he won re-election by ten points in a district Trump won by four, while championing progressive policies including taxing the wealthy and creating a consumer-owned utility. Esther, Ben and Mike break down the rest of the results known so far and highlight some surprising…
States Newsroom DC reporter Ariana Figueroa contributed to this report. Democrats gained at least one Republican-held seat in the U.S. Senate, but also lost a seat of their own and were unable to defeat several GOP incumbents in the elections, ending up early Wednesday with an increasingly challenging path to wresting control of the chamber…
Breaking news: Lisa Savage is exactly who she says she is. In a video released on the eve of Election Day, discredited right-wing organization Project Veritas said they “exposed” Savage, a progressive independent candidate in Maine’s U.S. Senate race, pointing to views she has campaigned on all along. A tweet by Project Veritas founder James…
A new analysis of the possible correlation between drug manufacturers’ political giving and policy outcomes shows that Sen. Susan Collins has taken nearly half a million dollars from Big Pharma during her career and cast key votes that have benefited the interests of one of the nation’s top corporate lobbies. The report, released on Thursday…