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The GOP’s New Medicaid Denialism

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Congressional Republicans claim to have achieved something truly miraculous. Their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, they argue, would cut nearly $ 800 billion from Medicaid spending over 10 years without causing any Americans to lose health care—or, at least, without making anyone who loses health care worse off. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that, by imposing Medicaid work requirements, the bill would eventually increase the uninsured population by at least 8.6 million. At first, Republican officials tried to defend this outcome on the grounds that it would affect only lazy…

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Virginia Could Decide the Future of the GOP’s Abortion Policy

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A crucial new phase in the political struggle over abortion rights is unfolding in suburban neighborhoods across Virginia. An array of closely divided suburban and exurban districts around the state will decide which party controls the Virginia state legislature after next month’s election, and whether Republicans here succeed in an ambitious attempt to reframe the politics of abortion rights that could reverberate across the nation. After the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022, the issue played a central role in blunting the widely anticipated Republican red…

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Abortion Is Inflaming the GOP’s Biggest Electoral Problem

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The escalating political struggle over abortion is compounding the GOP’s challenges in the nation’s largest and most economically vibrant metropolitan areas. The biggest counties in Ohio voted last week overwhelmingly against the ballot initiative pushed by Republicans and anti-abortion forces to raise the threshold for passing future amendments to the state constitution to 60 percent. That proposal, known as Issue 1, was meant to reduce the chances that voters would approve a separate initiative on the November ballot to overturn the six-week abortion ban Ohio Republicans approved in 2019. The…

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The GOP’s ‘Abusive Relationship’ With Trump

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It’s a measure of Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party that his unprecedented criminal indictment is strengthening, not loosening, his grip. Trump was on the defensive after November’s midterm election because many in the GOP blamed voter resistance to him for the party’s disappointing results. But five months later he has reestablished himself as a commanding front-runner in the Republican presidential primary, even as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has delivered the first of what could be several criminal indictments against him. “It’s almost like an abusive relationship in…

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MoveOn Statement on the GOP’s Improper, Unwarranted, & Islamophobic Attempt to Remove Congresswoman Omar From Her Committee

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Washington, D.C. – Statement from MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting on the improper and Islamophobic attempt to remove Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from her House Foreign Affairs Committee assignment as part of Kevin McCarthy’s corrupt bargain with MAGA: “The attempted removal of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from a committee she has served on for more than two years—and has extensive credentials to continue to serve on—would be improper and unwarranted and would show how radical and out of touch the Republican Party has become. Republicans are clearly more interested in political revenge…

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