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Image: Sen. Chris Van Hollen meets Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, where Kilmar was incarcerated in a brutal prison after being wrongfully deported and denied due process in the United States.
News: 2025
February 12. Robin Opsahl: Bernie Sanders returns to Iowa as part of ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour.
February 21. Noah Berlatsky: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong.
March 5. Alan Herrera: Jasmine Crockett Offers Fiery Reaction To Trump’s ‘Nightmare’ Speech To Congress.
March 6. Erin Reed: Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana.
March 24. Parker Molloy: Watch Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Reject the Politics of Trans Abandonment.
March 26. AP News: Democrats take hope from upset win in a GOP-leaning Pennsylvania state Senate district.
April 3. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: What Sen. Booker’s Speech Teaches Us About Effective Resistance Strategy.
April 14. Senator Chris Van Hollen: Van Hollen Requests Meeting with President Bukele to Discuss Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia; Announces Intent to Travel to El Salvador This Week if Abrego Garcia is Not Returned.
April 16. Chris Stein: US senator says El Salvador denied request to meet Kilmar Ábrego García: Chris Van Hollen condemns ‘unjust situation’ and says vice-president blocked access to wrongly deported man.
April 19. Naftali Bendavid: Three ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch: While presidents have been at odds before, there is often a sort of camaraderie among the small club of individuals who have served in the highest office in the land.
April 20. MSNBC: ‘There is no safety in appeasement’: Raskin’s warning to universities in negotiations with Trump.
April 21. Marianna Sotomayor: House Democrats travel to El Salvador to meet Abrego García.
April 22. PBS: More Democratic lawmakers visit El Salvador to see Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported by Trump administration.
April 23. Alexandra Marquez: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker takes steps to boycott El Salvador in protest of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention.
April 28. MSNBC: ‘These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace’: Pritzker calls for mass protests against GOP.
June 9. Chad de Guzman: Trump Over National Guard Mobilization, Says President ‘Manufactured’ Crisis in California.
June 10. Laurel Rosenhall: Newsom Tells Nation That Trump Is Destroying American Democracy
June 10. Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck: Rep. McIver indicted on 3 charges in clash outside ICE detention center. Democrats have decried the charges as political retaliation and predicted that Rep. LaMonica McIver will be cleared in court.
June 10. Laurel Rosenhall: Newsom Tells Nation That Trump Is Destroying American Democracy. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California called on Americans to stand up to President Trump in a nationally televised address.
June 11. Tatum Hunter: ‘Come and get me’: Gavin Newsom has entered the meme war. Locked in an online showdown with Trump, Newsom is styling himself as an internet-era champion of the left.
June 27. Marina Dunbar: Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for defamation and demands $787m. California governor accuses network of falsely claiming he lied about a phone call with Donald Trump.
June 30. George Chidi: Throwing their bodies on the gears: the Democratic lawmakers showing up to resist Trump. Republicans may literally own social media platforms, but some Democrats are buying back legitimacy with protests.
July 16. Robert Tait: Hungary opposition figures urge Democrats to organize against autocratic takeover by Trump: Forum speakers said Donald Trump’s second term resembles strongman Viktor Orbán’s first years in power.
August 3. Edward Helmore: Texas Democrats leave state to prevent vote on redrawing congressional map.
August 8. Nicholas Wu & Andrew Howard: Democrats make a Trump-inspired U-turn on redistricting: Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who pushed for national reforms, now says her party “cannot and will not unilaterally disarm.”
August 18. Christopher Armitage: It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”: Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
August 29. John Stoehr: How Gavin Newsom made Mike Johnson look like a Democrat.
August 29. Michael Brownstein & Alex Madva: Why the Texas Democrats’ Walkout Worked.
August 31. Erin Cox & Katie Shepherd: Why Maryland’s governor leaned into a fight with Trump: ‘This one is personal.’ The first-term governor and potential presidential candidate initially sought to strike a conciliatory tone with the president, but National Guard deployment to D.C. and attacks on Baltimore have changed that.
August 31. Jessica Corbett: US Lawmakers Urged to Follow Merkley and Van Hollen’s Lead After Senators Denied Access to Gaza.
September 3. Lauren Gambino: California, Oregon and Washington ally on vaccines in rebuke to Trump’s CDC: Three Democratic governors create West Coast Health Alliance amid growing turmoil at HHS under RFK Jr.
September 18. Joseph Goldstein: New York and Other States Form Health Bloc as Answer to Trump’s Policies: Northeastern governors, like their peers in the West, want to shore up public health and issue a stamp of approval for vaccines.
September 20. Gerardo Zavala: California bans masks meant to hide law enforcement officers’ identities.
September 21. Melody Schreiber: States rally to offset fracturing of federal healthcare agencies: ‘Diseases don’t see state lines’. Changes to regulatory or information environments will help states decouple from federal health recommendations.