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El-Sayed, who ran for governor in 2018 and lost to current Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, launched his campaign for Senate on a three-part campaign slogan and rallying cry: “Get money out of politics, put money back in your pocket and pass Medicare for All.”
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary shaped by party divisions, gender and faith
The progressive public health expert — who campaigned on Medicare for All — won in a primary shaped by party divisions, gender and faith.
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The van hands out food, water, clothes, first aid and free HIV tests. Locals recognize "Thrivey" as it drives across the Twin Cities. The van, and everything in it, is funded by federal money that has been suddenly revoked, as the government reroutes grants from nonprofits to state health agencies.
Running on empty: Can a red HIV outreach van outlast federal cuts?
The Aliveness Project says that nobody else can replicate what they do for the high-risk communities they reach. They're still being defunded.
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Abdul El-Sayed is Democrats’ pick for U.S. Senate in Michigan. The contentious Democratic primary in a critical battleground state was widely seen as a testing ground for what direction voters would take after the party’s loss to Trump, who narrowly won Michigan in 2024. https://bit.ly/4hblfx6
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary shaped by party divisions, gender and faith
The progressive public health expert — who campaigned on Medicare for All — won in a primary shaped by party divisions, gender and faith.
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Cori Bush's comeback bid falls short in Missouri Democratic primary
The former representative’s primary loss further hurts Black women’s chances for representation in Congress.
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Will Lawrence, a progressive activist and organizer, won a contested three-way Democratic primary for a top battleground district in Michigan that divided the moderate wing of the party.
Progressives prevail in a Michigan House primary that divided moderates — and women’s groups
Will Lawrence won in a showdown that raised questions about gender, electability and establishment politics in a swing seat.
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Former Democratic Rep. Cori Bush will not be returning to Congress after, failing to retake her old seat from Rep. Wesley Bell in the heated primary for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ.
Cori Bush's comeback bid falls short in Missouri Democratic primary
The former representative’s primary loss further hurts Black women’s chances for representation in Congress.
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Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure that would have made members of the state’s Supreme Court electable by popular vote — a seemingly technical issue that had become a proxy battle for the future of abortion rights in the state, Decision Desk HQ projects. https://bit.ly/4c3fG0d
Kansas voters reject another attempt to reshape the state’s abortion landscape
Reproductive rights supporters framed the ballot measure to elect state justices as an attempt to weaken abortion rights.
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Bridget Brink served as a diplomat in a war zone. But now she’s found herself at the center of a very different kind of fight in her home state: a multi-candidate primary that has turned into a larger existential battle over the future of the party. https://bit.ly/45C9ed0
The Michigan House race that tests whether ‘only a bro can beat a bro’
Questions of electability are frustrating Democratic women and shaping a showdown between establishment and progressive Democrats in a Michigan swing seat.
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Cori Bush’s stances haven't changed out of office. Whether and how much voters’ stances have changed will decide whether she returns to office after today's primary.
Cori Bush is making her case for a comeback
Black women aren’t expected to make significant gains in representation in the U.S. House in the 2026 midterms, but a Bush primary victory on Tuesday could help hold the line.
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The hotly-contested Michigan Senate race is the latest iteration of Democrats’ debate about what makes a candidate electable — a quality Democrats prioritize even as no one can agree on what, exactly, electability is, and many argue it discounts candidates who aren’t White men.
Who is electable? Michigan’s Senate primary asks a familiar question.
No one can agree on what, exactly, electability is — but both Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed are making the case that they have it.
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Your community may be losing federal funds to fight HIV. The government is rerouting millions from frontline HIV prevention groups to state health agencies — which, experts say, can't get resources to high-risk groups as effectively. Read our full story here: 19thnews.org/2026/08/hiv-...
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Giovannina Anthony says she knows the work to protect abortion access in Wyoming and across the country is far from over. She says she’s committed to continuing to do what she can to keep this care available for the patients she sees every day. This story was originally produced by @tradeoffs.org:
A Wyoming doctor’s fight to keep abortion legal in her deep red state
Giovannina Anthony has spent the past four years juggling her work as an gynecologist and abortion provider in Wyoming with a new task of suing state lawmakers to keep abortion legal.
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The red van hands out food, water, clothes, first aid and free HIV tests. Locals recognize it across the Twin Cities. But the van, and everything inside it, is funded by federal grant money that has been suddenly revoked. https://bit.ly/4gbcGBn
Trump’s war on "gender ideology" and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter’s ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,000.
This domestic violence shelter was told it no longer aligns with the Trump administration’s priorities
Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter's ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,...
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In a huge win for berry-aged children and their parents, experts aren’t urging a blanket ban on berries as the fruit has not been linked to the recent cyclospora outbreak.
Has the cyclospora outbreak impacted berries? What parents of berry-aged children need to know.
Some previous outbreaks have been linked to berries, which may have parents fretting over how to handle their toddlers' bottomless appetites for the fruit.
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Republican Rep. Max Miller is still running for reelection while facing allegations of abusing his ex-wife and daughter. No GOP members of congress have denounced Miller except for Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, who is the father of Miller's ex-wife, Emily Moreno.
Denying domestic violence allegations, Rep. Max Miller isn’t dropping his reelection bid
The Ohio Republican is accused of domestic violence — but the GOP is staying quiet ahead of key election deadline.
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Forty-six Democrats broke with their party to support legislation named after the murdered Georgia college student Laken Riley. Now, for some, that vote is a potential liability, as primary opponents say the votes cosigned Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
46 Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act. For some, it’s a liability.
The immigration law named after a murdered Georgia college student boosted the administration’s immigration powers. Eighteen months later, some Democrats are answering for it.
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It’s our website’s sixth anniversary! 🎉 We hope you’ll join us in celebrating. Our goal is to raise $6,000 by the end of the week. Will you make a gift of $6 or any amount today to help power representative journalism? Every gift counts! https://bit.ly/3TyYZU3
Princess Moss campaigned for the NEA presidency with a call to look beyond the challenges public education is up against. She titles her vision “From Resistance to Renaissance.” https://bit.ly/4xeqoJw
From rural Virginia music teacher to the nation’s top teachers union leader
The Virginia native is the second from her commonwealth and the fourth Black woman to lead the country’s largest labor union.
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Norma Bowe, a registered nurse who has operated a mobile health clinic outside Delaney Hall Detention Facility, suffered multiple injuries, including a concussion, when an ICE agent shoved her. Her case joins 54 others filed by the ACLU against the federal government. 19thnews.org/2026/07/norm...
This nurse brings health care to people outside a detention center. She says ICE agents assaulted her.
This week, the ACLU announced it has filed 54 claims on behalf of Norma Bowe and others who allege violence and additional harms from federal immigration officials.
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Researchers found that in states with strict abortion bans, the share of girls who reported suicidal ideation increased, and in states without bans it declined — resulting in a total difference of 4.3 percentage points between states with and without abortion bans. https://bit.ly/3RC3lcx
Abortion bans may be fueling a 'concerning increase' in suicidal thoughts among teen girls
A new study found a significant increase in suicidal ideation for teen girls in states with abortion bans — regardless of if they are pregnant. There was no increase for teen boys.
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For generations, students chose colleges based on factors like their academic reputation, tuition costs or social scene. But in today’s divided nation, politics has emerged as a rising influence on where young people pursue higher learning.
For college students, a school’s state politics can matter as much as its academics
Students are looking beyond the usual admissions rankings and tuition prices to consider whether a campus — and the state its in — reflects the rights and values they need to feel safe.
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As more cases of cyclosporiasis get reported, what does it all mean for the berry-obsessed children in your life? 19thnews.org/2026/07/cycl...
Has the cyclospora outbreak impacted berries? What parents of berry-aged children need to know.
Some previous outbreaks have been linked to berries, which may have parents fretting over how to handle their toddlers' bottomless appetites for the fruit.
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Trump admin changes are slowly suffocating the nonprofits that support victims of gender-based violence. It's Vanessa Lantz's job to inform callers that all resources are taken: “They’re just like, ‘I don’t even know if I’m going to be alive by the end of this weekend.'" 19thnews.org/2026/07/san-...
This domestic violence shelter was told it no longer aligns with the Trump administration’s priorities
Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter's ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,...
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Norma Bowe, a nurse in New Jersey, runs a mobile health clinic that stops outside Delaney Hall detention center, where she provides blood pressure checks, stroke assessments and other care. Yesterday, she told me about the day she says she was assaulted by an ICE agent. My latest via @19thnews.org
This nurse brings health care to people outside a detention center. She says ICE agents assaulted her.
This week, the ACLU announced it has filed 54 claims on behalf of Norma Bowe and others who allege violence and additional harms from federal immigration officials.
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“They do whatever they want. They just harm whoever they want, whenever they want. And so, this is a step in making them accountable.”
This nurse brings health care to people outside a detention center. She says ICE agents assaulted her.
This week, the ACLU announced it has filed 54 claims on behalf of Norma Bowe and others who allege violence and additional harms from federal immigration officials.
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In the past decade, more than 5,000 women have served in combat roles. And the occupation standards for these roles have always been gender neutral by law, despite Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s false insistence that requirements were lowered for women and that there were quotas made for women.
Women have served in combat for a decade. Lawmakers want to protect that right.
“As far as I’m concerned, the only person who doesn’t think that women should have the opportunity to serve in these roles is Hegseth,” said Sen. Mazie Hirono, a lead sponsor of a new bill.
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Last year the Trump administration revoked nearly $500k from San Francisco Asian Women's Shelter. That was just the start. The politicization of federal funding is hurting domestic violence organizations across the country — and maybe soon, everyone else. 19thnews.org/2026/07/san-...
This domestic violence shelter was told it no longer aligns with the Trump administration’s priorities
Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter's ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,...
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