As primary results trickle in, both parties are wrestling with what they stand for — and where they’re headed.

Rogers, Collins, and the MAGA Squad

While this is not a place primarily for bragging, I can’t resist noting that last week’s Motivation Monday candidate, Dwayne Romero, in Colorado 3rd got a good news poll from the pre-eminent Democrati...

Last year, the House passed the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633), a bill disguised as “crypto regulation” that actually serves the billionaires and bad actors at the center of today’s crypto chaos. This bill d...

The Michigan Senate candidate on his case for "America first from the left," and why political moderation is a doomed tactic

Of course Trump changed his mind, again, but I'll post this anyway...

AIPAC is spending millions of $ to defeat him!

The 250th Anniversary of this country should have been a joyous affair, all of it, from the celebrations of our founding documents in the runup to the day itself, to the symbols in Washington D.C.

Join Christopher Street Project, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Popular Democracy, Our Revolution, and Interfaith Alliance for the Pride Is Power Mass Call. Organizers, elected officials, and specia...

Some Debate Commentary, Plus a Deep Dive Into The Voter File

And more links for your Wednesday.

An obscure group is spending in Maine congressional race as Democrats decry its involvement in New Jersey

Why George Conway's Absurd Impeachment Fantasy Captivates NY-12 Voters

Public health professional Nina Schwalbe lamented that "four dudes" have dominated the race.

How the White House's Freedom 220 program is desecrating our remembrance of the nation's founding

Global health expert and advocate Nina R Schwalbe has spent her career working onmultifaceted global health issues, ranging from HIV and tuberculosis prevention tonegotiations for a pandemic treaty. But in 2026 she has entered another complex andfraught arena, that of national politics, running for the US Congress as a Democraticcandidate for the US House of Representatives from New York's 12th Congressional District,where her family has lived for six generations. The list of contenders is long andincludes Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former US President John F Kennedy.

District Twelve's Candidate Interview with Public Health Advocate Nina Schwalbe

Why I’m proposing the Frontier AI Safety and Security Act — and why the difference matters.

Watch/Read now | A conversation with Sharenthood author and Harvard law professor Leah Plunkett about protecting children online and on digital devices.

We strive to build community, educate voters, and use our Sharpies to write to save democracy together. Join us 9:30am to 12pm ET, to write postcards and hear from candidates, political leaders, organ...

Meet Drew Warshaw.

I needed someone to write this piece about Graham Platner (about whom I wrote months ago, before the tatoo, before the icky posts, etc. (https://ellenbender2.substack.com/p/about-that-oyster-farmer?r=...

Some candidates are making public health a central part of their midterm campaigns amid Trump’s war on science

As families were putting on their Sunday best for Easter services and children across America were unearthing goodies in their Easter baskets and anticipating egg hunts, the American president - a fig...

Since before the founding of the country, there have been political cartoons, often mocking the powerful with sharp humor, capturing the absurdity of the moment, shaping public opinion, and even expos...

Since before the founding of the country, there have been political cartoons, often mocking the powerful with sharp humor, capturing the absurdity of the moment, shaping public opinion, and even expos...

As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

Support for the U.S. attack starts at 34% - 44% Your weekly political data roundup for March 1, 2026.

As Americans reel from the shocking news out of Minneapolis, college and university presidents are deciding whether and how their institutions will collaborate with ICE. For alumni, it is a stark remi...