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Susan Collins Was Facing a Tough Re-Election Even Before Voting Against Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
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Democrats want to retake the Senate. Why are they afraid to run against the Maine Senator who upsets both sides?
Susan Collins is the only blue-state Republican senator and Democrats think they can beat her, Eric Garcia writes. But first, they have to find a candidate ...
One Senator’s Vote on the “Big, Beautiful Bill” Feels Like a Particular Betrayal
It’s a striking example of just how monolithic the once ideologically heterogenous Republican Party has become.
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Superman the Immigrant Would Have Saved Texas
In his weekly newsletter, Elie Mystal lambastes the Republicans’ shameful priorities—and their deadly consequences.
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Spineless Republicans Are Part of a Bigger Problem
Issues once thought long settled are now up for grabs again. But “they’re not going to get what they want,” says Omar Jadwat of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project.
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What would Silvio Conte have said?
I think Sil Conte would advise Murkowski to stop running scared, dump the GOP, join the independents and decline a fifth term ...
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Susan Collins opposes clawing back health care, public media funding — with the exception of NPR's
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, in a conversation with Maine Public Radio, discusses her opinion about the $8 billion President ...
Susan Collins Leads Senate Appropriations Committee Discussion On Agriculture Appropriations Bill
In a Senate Appropriations Committee business meeting on Thursday, senators discussed the impacts of the fiscal year 2026 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related ...