Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Meet the Coalition Fighting to Protect Abortion in Florida
Amendment 4 needs 60 percent support to pass. Organizers are fanning out across the state to get the votes.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Push for Public Banking in New York
Rochester wants to establish the first public bank in the United States in over a century.
Posted inPolitics
Defending a Free and Fair Election
How concerned should we be about tactics to impair voting? And what should be done to resist?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Direct-Democracy Backsliding Claims Another Victim
A paperwork snafu kicked an abortion rights measure off the ballot in Arkansas. Organizers can try again in 2026.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
California Fights Fire With Fire
The state has finally embraced indigenous land management techniques to help alleviate its wildfire crisis.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Tech Industry Uses Push Poll to Stop California AI Bill
The legislation is likely to pass, but Gov. Gavin Newsom is being lobbied hard by Silicon Valley to oppose it, using what can be seen as deceptive tactics.
Posted inPolitics
It Took a Village: The Making of Progressive Tim Walz
Gov. Walz signed into law one of the most progressive packages ever. He didn’t do it alone.
Posted inWorking in America
How Tim Walz Saved Workers’ Lives and Limbs
The Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee has won extraordinary advances in worker safety in Minnesota.
Posted inWorking in America
Minnesota Workers Strike Down Shady Provision That Restricts Their Freedom of Employment
The state banned so-called ‘restrictive covenants’ that make contracted labor agreements harder to break.
