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Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, arrives at a news conference, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in Augusta, Maine.

Midterms 2026

Maine Senate Candidates Claim They’re Just Like Platner — But Entirely Different

Candidates are desperately trying to appeal to Graham Platner’s base. But they’re keeping Platner himself at arm’s length.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 01: Mamdani political advisor Morris Katz attends Zohran Mamdani 's inauguration as the 112th mayor at City Hall on Thursday January 1, 2026 in New York, NY. Mamdani has added a “block party” to the official inauguration events to allow thousands of New Yorkers to take part. Mamdani was officially sworn in at midnight by New York Attorney General Letitia James at the Old City Hall subway station in a private ceremony. on January 01, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Midterms 2026

DSA Members Urge Campaigns to Ditch Platner Consultant Who Advised Mamdani

“We, the undersigned, call on DSA candidates and elected officials to no longer contract or work with Morris Katz or Fight Agency, his political consulting firm.”

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 16: Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivers remarks as U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on October 16, 2025 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump outlined plans during the event to expand vitro fertilization (IVF) access by encouraging workplace benefits to include access to IVF and infertility coverage. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The End of Roe

The Trump Administration Is Overhauling Birth Control Access for the Pronatalist Movement

Jessica Washington

Under RFK Jr., HHS is revamping a program that’s supposed to fund contraceptives and sexual healthcare to please a far-right movement with roots in eugenics.

A large portrait of President Donald Trump looms over a field of American flags at the Department of Labor in Washington, Tuesday, July 7, 2026.

A Government of Trump, by Trump, and for Trump

BLUE HILL, MAINE - JUNE 9: Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at his Primary Election event on June 9, 2026 in Blue Hill, Maine. Platner is the presumptive Democratic nominee and will face incumbent Sen. Collins (R-ME) for Maine's U.S. Senate seat in the general election. (Photo by CJ Gunther/Getty Images)

Midterms 2026

Graham Platner’s Exit From Senate Race Leaves Maine Dems “Hobbled” in Scramble for New Nominee

Akela Lacy, Noah Hurowitz

Graham Platner, Democratic US Senate candidate for Maine, during a primary election night event at the Blue Hill YMCA in Blue Hill, Maine, US, on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Progressive Democrat Graham Platner won the party's Senate primary in Maine after a bruising campaign which became as much about his accusations of past misbehavior as it was voters' top concerns.

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It’s Time for Maine to Ditch Platner — But Not the Politics That Won Over Voters

Donald Trump, President of United States, attends the welcome ceremony at Bestepe Presidential Compound during the 2026 NATO Ankara Summit in Ankara, Turkiye, on July 8th, 2026.

Targeting Iran

Another Trump Ceasefire With Iran Crumbles

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The People Who Stood By Graham Platner — Until He Was Accused of Rape

The Intercept Briefing

Trump’s Communist Boogeyman Playbook: Charging Protesters as Terrorists

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Government employees inside the CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia. File photo from 3/3/2005.

Voices

Why Would Anyone Trust Ex-CIA Agents in Elected Office?

Voices

Graham Platner Inspired Another Left-Wing Veteran to Take On an Establishment Dem

Iran

A man passes a mural in Tehran, Iran on June 18, 2026, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran.

The Surprising Reaction Inside Iran to Its War Victory

Séamus Malekafzali

A residential area where an Iranian ballistic missile struck in Arad, southern Israel on March 22, 2026.

Israel Asked Facebook to Censor Iran War Content, Internal Documents Show

Navy sailors signal to an F-35C Lightning II on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln during operations in support of the war in Iran, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026.

U.S. Casualties in Iran Are Still Rising

President Donald Trump stands in the ring after Justin Gaethje defeated Ilia Topuria in a lightweight title bout during UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, June 15, 2026, in Washington.

Trump Celebrates Achieving Absolutely Nothing in Iran

Midterms

The People Who Stood By Graham Platner — Until He Was Accused of Rape

The Intercept Briefing

On November 16, 2025, in Manhattan, NYC, the New York Democratic Socialists of America hold the Tax the Rich rally. The group, along with other gathered protestors, speaks to ensuring newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani's mandates. Throughout, speakers and protestors alike repeatedly call for leaders to tax the rich. (Photo by Neil Constantine/NurPhoto via AP)

There’s a New Democratic Machine. It’s Unabashedly Socialist.

Akela Lacy, Jonah Valdez

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 04: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Finance Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on September 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. The committee met to hear testimony on President Trump's 2026 health care agenda. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. Claims He’s Investigating Terrorism Now, Too

Jessica Washington

DENVER, COLORADO - MAY 28: Melat Kiros participated in a League of Women Voters Congressional District 1 candidate forum at Montview Presbyterian Church on May 28, 2026, in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Socialist Momentum Grows as Melat Kiros Wins in Denver

Justice

FBI Raided Texas Activist’s House — Then Offered Her $200,000 to Become Antifa Informant

A.D. Chilcote, C. Frances

Protestors and law enforcement clash during a demonstration and vigil outside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, on January 28, 2026. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, asylum seekers from Ecuador who were arrested on January 20 in Minneapolis by ICE agents, are being held at the center along with others detained by ICE. US President Donald Trump said on January 27 that he would "de-escalate a little bit" in Minneapolis after the fatal shootings of two civilians fueled a storm of criticism over his signature immigration crackdown. (Photo by Moisés ÁVILA / AFP via Getty Images)

How Local Cops Are Running With Trump’s NSPM-7 Attacks on Antifa

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 04: Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on March 04, 2026 in New York City. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other federal agencies continue to have a presence in immigration courts as immigrants attend court hearings, as the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, whose funding lapsed on February 14th. Some federal agents who patrol the 12th and 14th floors of the Federal Plaza building have begun wearing body cameras for the first time in their eight-month presence at the courthouse. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

ICE Flouting Federal Judge’s Order to Stop Arresting Immigrants at New York Courts

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Attorney General Pam Bondi speak with reporters after briefing House Oversight Committee members on the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Capitol Hill on March 18, 2026.

Trump Has Already Launched More Death Penalty Prosecutions Than in His Entire First Term

War on Gaza

This undated photo from Winter 2023 provided by Breaking The Silence, a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers, shows blindfolded Palestinian prisoners captured in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces at a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. (Breaking The Silence via AP)

How to Show That Israel’s Sexual Violence Against Palestinians Is Systemic — and Has Gone on for Decades

Natasha Lennard

The Performative Ceasefire in Gaza

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 15: A supporter of Israel counter protests as pro-Palestinian activists take part in a protest on Nakba Day on May 15, 2026 in New York City. Pro-Palestinian activists worldwide marked the 78th anniversary of the Nakba amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images)

The Real “Divide” Among Democrats Over Israel Is Between Party Leadership and Voters

A Palestinian walks along a street next to the Israel's separation wall at dusk during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the West Bank town of al-Ram, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A Gay Palestinian Fled to Israel’s “Safe Haven.” Israel Tried to Exploit Him for Intelligence.

Unmasking ICE

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, center, and Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, left, during a hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

ICE Should Show It Hasn’t Been “Infiltrated by Violent Extremists,” Senator Urges

Matt Sledge, Sam Biddle

ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence

Matt Sledge, Sam Biddle

Protesters walk past a screen reading "arrest and charge Jonathan Ross", the ICE officer, named in US media as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who fatally shot Renee Good, as they march from Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis against ICE and the fatal shooting of Good, calling on federal authorities to leave the city and demand accountability, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 10, 2026. A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good on the streets of Minneapolis on January 7, leading to huge protests and outrage from local leaders who rejected White House claims she was a domestic terrorist. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

Government Ordered to Turn Over Files on ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

Noah Hurowitz, Austin Campbell

WASHINGTON, DC August 25, 2025:

US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth and US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem during the signing of Executive Orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday August 25, 2025.

(Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Pentagon Implores Civilian Workers to Join ICE “Volunteer Force”

Noah Hurowitz, Austin Campbell

Chilling Dissent

Trump’s Communist Boogeyman Playbook: Charging Protesters as Terrorists

The Intercept Briefing

30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech

Seth Stern, Jeremy Busby

NEW YORK, US - FEBRUARY 21: Luigi Mangione's supporters gathered outside Manhattan Criminal Court and protest the US healthcare system as he appeared in the court for his hearing on New York state murder and terrorism charges in New York City, U.S., on February 21, 2025. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Cops Warn CEO Bodyguards That Luigi Mangione Fever Could Spark Class War

Glen Stellmacher, Noah Hurowitz

Supporters of the Prairieland defendants displayed signs outside the courthouse during sentencing on June 23, 2026 in Fort Worth, Texas.

Prairieland Defendant Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines