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9/29 Filling out the voter registration status-check form on Maine.vote gives your data to a conservative Maine PAC campaigning for Senator Collins. The form on VoteSafe.org goes to a database owned by Elon Musk's PAC. Mainers should be cautious. #maine #MEpolitics

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9/29 Republican Maine governor candidate Bobby Charles denies saying he planned to ask for ICE agents at Maine polling places #maine #MEpolitics

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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org

You can go to a site like vote.org, but the Maine Secretary of State’s office recommends calling your local clerk to be certain. www.maine.gov/sos/election...

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9/29 Mainer-slash-historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social on the best way Mainers can influence the Senate election, speaking at a campaign event for Troy Jackson at USM in Portland Monday evening #maine #MEpolitics

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9/29 Mainer-slash-historian Heather Cox Richardson on the best way Mainers can influence the Senate election, speaking at a campaign event for Troy Jackson at USM in Portland Monday evening #maine #MEpolitics

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 28/09/2026

9/28 Happening Now: Mainer and historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social is on stage here in Portland for a conversation with Senate candidate Troy Jackson #Maine #MEpolitics

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9/28 The Portland Press Herald/#Maine Sunday Telegram editorial board published a scathing editorial Sunday about Senator Susan Collins's "extremely disappointing" reaction to ProPublica's report about the FBI last year abandoning its investigation of bribery allegations against her. #MEpolitics

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 28/09/2026

9/28 My full 90-min interview with GOP #Maine governor candidate Bobby Charles is now live. We covered a range of issues, including taxes and spending cuts, housing, abortion, Flock cameras, immigration, elections, test scores, and more. #MEpolitics mainenewsroom.substack.com/p/full-inter...

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FULL INTERVIEW: Bobby Charles talks taxes, election integrity, ICE, abortion, and his opponents in the race for Maine governor

The Republican nominee for Maine governor and I sat down in Winthrop for a long conversation about his background and the election

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 27/09/2026

9/27 Republican Maine Governor candidate Bobby Charles tells me "of course" he's supporting Senator Susan Collins and that they "are in complete lockstep." Full interview coming on MONDAY. #maine #MEpolitics

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 27/09/2026

9/27 Republican Maine Governor candidate Bobby Charles has said repeatedly that he believed he could talk someone out of an abortion. I asked him WHAT he'd say to do it. #maine #MEpolitics

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9/26 Republican Maine gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles is walking back his pledge during the primary to cut $4 billion from state's $12 billion biennial budget. Full interview to come MONDAY. #maine #MEpolitics

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“This was the boat they were talking about in the article,” Steve Abbott said at the press conference Wednesday. A spokesperson for the University told ProPublica Friday, "This most recent boat has no Navatek connection, and UMaine has not worked with Navatek since 2021." (3/3)

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Staffers held up a photo of a boat launched this summer as proof the 2019 earmark was a good investment, and that the Navatek project was not "of no real value" to the military as the company allegedly believed. (2/3)

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 25/09/2026

9/26 UPDATE: In an extraordinary break, the University of Maine on Friday disputed a claim made by Senator Susan Collins's campaign manager on Wednesday while defending the $8 million Collins steered to Navatek. (1/3) #Maine #MEpolitics

UMaine disputes Collins staff claim that new 3d-printed boat was result of money senator Steered to navatek

• Collins’s staffer showed photos on Wednesday of new boat as proof of value the earmark she delivered for navatek
• UMAINE SPOX: “This most recent boat has no Navatek connection, and UMaine has not worked with Navatek since 2021”

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9/25 The operative at center of Sen. Susan Collins’s alleged bribery scandal was fired by a major client after he "repeatedly breached confidentiality, distorted facts for his own benefit, withheld information from chamber leadership and leaked internal information to the press.” #maine #MEpoli

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 25/09/2026

9/25 War drives diesel and home heating oil prices to new record highs in Maine #maine #MEpolitics

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 24/09/2026

9/24 ProPublica’s reporters say Senator Collins is now making “incorrect and misleading claims” #maine #MEpolitics

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 24/09/2026

9/24 The Trump Administration is using tax dollars to run a 30-second ad glorifying President Trump on television #maine #MEpolitics

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 24/09/2026

9/24 UPDATE: ProPublica took the extraordinary step of fact-checking #Maine Sen. Susan Collins' response to its story about the FBI wanting to launch an investigation into alleged corruption involving her. ProPublica called Collins's defense "a series of incorrect and misleading claims." #MEpolitic

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 23/09/2026

9/23 Lingering questions about bribery allegations against Maine Senator Susan Collins drag story into a second day #maine #MEpolitics

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 23/09/2026

9/23 ICE takes as a fifth Cumberland County, Maine, corrections officer, Dannick Massamba-Bankela. Here seeking asylum from the Republic of Congo, his lawyer says the father of two entered legally, had no criminal record, and was authorized to work here. #maine #MEpolitics

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 23/09/2026

9/23 Campaigning with his former twice-rival, the state’s former CDC director Dr. Nirav Shah in Scarborough on Monday, Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson called for expanded prescription drug negotiation by the federal government to lower costs for Mainers. #maine #MEpolitics

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 22/09/2026

9/22 ProPublica is reporting that the FBI's anti-corruption unit had been investigating an alleged bribery scheme involving Maine Senator Susan Collins until the Trump Administration gutted the unit. Senator Collins's office "vigorously" denies the allegations. #maine #MEpolitics

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 22/09/2026

9/22 BREAKING NEWS: ProPublica reported Tuesday that the FBI's anti-corruption unit was investigating an alleged bribery scheme involving Maine Senator Susan Collins. Full story: www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susa… #maine #MEpolitics

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 21/09/2026

9/21 Lewiston, Maine, native Patrick Dempsey talks about the annual Dempsey Challenge and his center's work supporting people on their cancer journey #maine #MEpolitics

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But those lawsuits don’t have legal standing that official suits by the House have, per the recent SCOTUS ruling.

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Later in the segment several do indeed say they’re undecided and a couple of them say they’re leaning toward Senator Collins.

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9/19 WATCH: In cable news focus group, previous voters for Senator Susan Collins in Lewiston, Maine, discuss how voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh changed their view of Senator Collins. #maine #MEpolitics

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