🚨 Gov. Bill Lee says Tennessee is a finalist to store the nation’s nuclear waste—but he’s not saying where he wants to put the radioactive material. Sen. Heidi Campbell is demanding answers: 📍 Which towns did the governor volunteer for nuclear waste storage? open.substack.com/pub/tnsenate...

Unchecked Republican control in Tennessee has resulted in worse health outcomes, fewer hospitals, higher insurance premiums & more medical debt. Democrats are fighting back on rising costs and working to end the GOP’s self-made healthcare crisis. www.tennessean.com/story/news/h...

Republican Party policies are great for the wealthy. Everyone else gets inflation and stagnation. If you want to drive the economy forward, put the car in D! www.tennessean.com/story/money/...

Donald Trump & Republican politicians cut food assistance for low-income families to pay for tax breaks that mostly benefit the Epstein class. Now they’re shifting costs of the federal program onto all Tennessee taxpayers. Heckuva job, GOP www.wkrn.com/news/nationa... www.wkrn.com/news/nationa...

Tennessee among 41 states at risk of losing federal SNAP funds, new data shows: What to know

Dozens of states are going to have to start forking over more money to fund SNAP (or end up cutting food assistance) if they don’t get their error rates in check.

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😵‍💫 Under Gov. Bill Lee & the Republican Party, Tennessee is dead last in the U.S. for student funding per pupil. It would take $1B investment to catch Mississippi. But that won’t stop Bill from patting himself on the back.

State Republicans just gave a company — that in 2023 had no experience managing voucher programs — a big contract boost. Sen. Heidi Campbell raised red flags.

🪨 Sen. Heidi Campbell has thoughts about the new rock Republicans put on the Capitol lawn

DEATH ROW SECRECY: A bipartisan coalition—including Leader Raumesh Akbari & Rep. Gabby Salinas—backed reform to increase accountability and transparency on Tennessee’s death row. Then the Correction Dept. botched an execution. MLK50: mlk50.com/2026/06/02/a...

The cost of housing in Tennessee is at an all-time high. Groceries, healthcare & energy, too. Families are getting crushed by price gouging and soaring inflation. Without lifting a finger to bring down costs & strengthen families, Republicans invented a fake holiday to celebrate “strong families.”

📉 ECONOMIC NEWS: Tennessee employers have shed 40,000 workers over the last five months. Trump mass deportations are making the labor shortage worse. Trump inflation is crushing businesses. Hiring is stalling and wages aren't keeping up. The Republican Party has no answers.

Sen. Heidi Campbell writes about the dichotomy of the Tennessee Senate: One week honoring a soldier who bravely opposed fascism in Europe and then later rigging the state’s congressional elections in an attempt to amass more political power. open.substack.com/pub/theheidi...

The unprecedented GOP power grab was met with unprecedented resistance. Read the full statement on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/tnsenate...

$30 million of OUR tax dollars for a global corporation worth $121 billion. To working families & small business owners getting crushed under Trump’s high-inflation economy, this looks like state Republicans rigging the game for the billionaire class.

FACT: Republican Party lawmakers are the only thing standing between Tennesseans and a pro-family cost-cutting agenda Prices are skyrocketing while Republican politicians block our agenda. The GOP’s only focus is power, culture wars and handouts for the wealthy.

“Affordability has to be keeping Republican consultants up at night” — John Geer, Vanderbilt Poll co-director, noting a drop in Trump approval and almost ubiquitous concerns about affordability among Tennessee voters will likely impact this year’s midterm elections. ✍️ @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social

Donald Trump's approval rating in Tennessee dips - Nashville Banner

The latest Vanderbilt Poll shows Donald Trump's approval rating in Tennessee declining, with independents and non-MAGA Republicans becoming less satisfied.

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Trump’s reckless policies, tariff taxes and foreign wars are taking a toll on workers and one of Tennessee’s most important industries. @wkrntv www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...

Sen. Heidi Campbell on the Tennessee Republican Party abandoning conservatism for control and power: “There’s nothing conservative about using government power to eliminate dissent, nor redrawing maps to silence communities of color.” open.substack.com/pub/theheidi...

This week Sam speaks to members of the Tennessee state legislature about the state’s immediate redistricting designed to disempower Black communities in response to the SCOTUS overturning of the VRA. Feat Senator Charlane Oliver and @votegloriaj.bsky.social

White Power Grab: Tennessee’s Assault on Black Voting Rights with Sen. Oliver & Rep. Johnson

Podcast Episode 292: Sam speaks to members of the Tennessee state legislature about the state's immediate redistricting designed to disempower Black communities in response to the SCOTUS overturning o...

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Sen. Raumesh Akbari called Rep. Steve Cohen one of Memphis's "fiercest champions" after the longtime public servant said he would not run for reelection. His decision came after state Republicans held an unprecedented special session to rig districts lines. tnsenatedems.substack.com/p/leader-rau...

How it started How it’s going Knox County Schools whitewashing history banned books edition 📚 🤔. Shameful.

Only in Tennessee — Ummm… maybe someone should tell Knox County Schools ‘ROOTS’, the novel about Black history they just banned… is a STATE BOOK 📕 🤦🏻‍♂️

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

“It’s time to get up and fight.” Sen. London Lamar tells Feminist’s Sydney Verde that rigged congressional maps are part of a pattern from Tennessee Republicans, who are targeting Black political power at every level. Lamar says it’s a #JimCrow tactics and time to organize at the polls.

TENNESSEE LAYOFFS HIT SIX-YEAR HIGH State data shows nearly 3,400 Tenn. workers were laid off in the first four months of 2026 — the largest layoff total for that period in six years. While TN’s one-party government focuses on power grabs, our economy is unraveling under their noses.

"They are lynching us with the ballot and with congressional maps." TN State Senator Charlane Oliver tells @DeanObeidallah that we are in a civil war with the Jim Crow states as they go after black congressional and state districts.

WATCH: Tenn. Senate Democratic Leader Raumesh Akbari explains the consequences of Republican map rigging, calling out the GOP for silencing Black voters in Memphis and across the South. #gerrymandering #jimcrow #tennessee #tndemocrats #tnpolitics

STACEY ABRAMS, democracy champion and founder of Fair Fight, calls out the TNGOP racial gerrymander that splits Memphis across three congressional districts. She warned this map returns Tennessee to a “vicious past” that silenced voters. #handsoffmemphis #jimcrow #Tennessee

SHOW SOME COURAGE: Caucus Chairwoman Sen. London Lamar tells Republican senators, who know it’s immoral to steal a congressional seat from Black voters in Memphis, to “show some courage.” #HandsOffMemphis #Democrats #tennessee #jimcrow

Senate Democratic Leader Raumesh Akbari opens the special session to rig Tennessee’s congressional map with a history lesson and fiery warning to Republicans. #HandsOffMemphis #jimcrow

Tennessee Republicans are literally breaking the laws they swore to uphold to silence Memphis voters. Tennessean: www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...