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The Ohio Secretary of State said Tuesday that Republican lawmakers would not try to ban contraception if the threshold for passing a state constitutional amendment is raised. Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) made the comment during a debate, hosted by WCMH-TV in Columbus, over Issue 1, a ballot proposal that would raise the threshold for passing future changes to the […]

The campaign over Issue 1 in Ohio has been provocative, to say the least. One ad argues that the ballot measure is necessary to prevent children from getting gender-affirming care without their parents’ consent. Another features a steamy sex scene — interrupted by a Republican congressman who steals a condom out of a couple’s hands.  Based on this, you

Ohioans are voting in an election that was never supposed to happen. It is poised to become the latest data point of how conservatives are still struggling to respond to a public that remains incensed that the Supreme Court gutted nationwide abortion rights. Republicans in the state set the August election as a way to

A ballot initiative about the rules of ballot initiatives might sound mundane at first, but it’s actually Ohio Republicans’ not-so-secret weapon to keep abortion rights out of the state constitution. And next week, the measure is coming before voters in a late-summer special election that state Republicans pushed through at the eleventh hour—despite recently swearing

Republicans worked for decades to get Roe v. Wade overturned, saying all the while that the issue of abortion should be “returned to the states.” But what if voters in a Republican-leaning state reject the GOP’s position? Then they’ve got a different problem: democracy. Now Ohio Republicans are trying to duck the will of the voters

An ad launched by Progress Action Fund launched, showing an elderly Republican congressman interrupting a couple in the bedroom, has now been banned on X, formerly known as Twitter. According to the Progress Action Fund, which aims to defeat Republicans in red states, the platform “has censored” its account as well as the ad, called “Keep Republicans Out Of Your Bedroom.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The fraught politics of abortion have helped turn an August ballot question in Ohio that would make it harder to change the state constitution into a cauldron of misinformation and fear-mongering. State Issue 1, the sole question on the ballot, calls for raising the threshold for passing future changes to the Ohio Constitution

If you have not seen misogynist Senator Tom Cotton’s interview on Fox News Sunday last week, be prepared to seethe. Cotton had the audacity to say that women in the military who need an abortion and can’t legally get one in the state they are in, should pay out of their own pocket to travel to another

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. * Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose launched a Republican U.S. Senate campaign this morning, complicating a race that’s likely to get messy. LaRose joins a GOP field that already includes businessman Bernie Moreno — who’s received Donald Trump’s encouragement — and state Sen. Matt Dolan, who

In what seems like a bid to make the site formerly known Twitter* as unappealing to the Left as humanly possible, Elon Musk has made the decision to unban conspiracy nut Dominick McGee (AKA “Dom Lucre”) after he was kicked off the site earlier this week for sharing incredibly disturbing Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM)