Hyperscaler companies enjoyed $836 million in tax breaks from one law he signed as governor. Now, he’s been forced to defend that record.
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Can Nevada Democrats Roll a Trifecta?
If Aaron Ford can unseat the state’s Republican governor this November, he’ll have the power to enact a distinctly pro-worker agenda.
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Democrats Playing the Economic Populist Card in Iowa Midterms
The combination of farm-state economic woes and Democrats speaking the language of working-class people has residents saying the state is ‘getting purple.’
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The Red Tide Goes Out—With a Blue Splashback
Democrats are surging in Republican states but have some problems in their own strongholds.
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The Brownback Brushback in Kansas
Data centers and a stadium deal have set the table for a contentious governor’s race in a state that has yet to recover fully from its disastrous mid-aughts tax-cutting ‘experiment.’
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Wisconsin GOP Candidate Is Exploiting the Data Center Backlash to Hit Solar, Wind
Gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany flipped on data centers, outflanked his Democratic rival, and tied the issue to renewable projects he has opposed for years.
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Hong Campaign Postmortem: It Wasn’t the Socialism, It Was the Woke
The right’s attacks actually don’t focus on socialism’s defining economics.
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Can DSA’s Francesca Hong Win in Cheese Country?
Democratic socialists have won the New York mayor’s race and seven House seats. The governor’s seat in Wisconsin might be next.
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The Democratic Establishment’s Mess in Wisconsin
On the verge of a potential governing trifecta, state party leaders have hopscotched from candidate to candidate in the governor’s race, trying to stop democratic socialist Francesca Hong.
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Onward Christian Soldier
Victor Marx, who may become the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado today, depicts himself as a karate-chopping, children-saving, hardcore pastor. None of it is reliable.