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Maine Democratic Senate Primary Intensifies as Mills Ad Targets Platner Over Comments About Women and Tattoo

Maine Gov. Janet Mills has launched her first negative ad in the Democratic Senate primary, escalating an increasingly bitter contest against progressive challenger Graham Platner in one of the party's top pickup opportunities of the 2026 midterms.

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‘I’m not a secret Nazi’: Graham Platner defends controversial tattoo, says critics misunderstood it

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has changed his stance on a controversial tattoo. He now states he no longer apologizes for the symbol, which resembled a Nazi emblem. Platner claims Jewish leaders understood his explanation after he shared his story. He previously said he got the tattoo in Croatia while…

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Democrats thrown into disarray as US offensive on Iran creates cracks

Lawmakers from Sanders to Mark Kelly offer mixed feelings on Trump’s action and killing of Iranian supreme leader

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Scoop: Trump's Iran strikes inject new chaos into 2026 Democratic primaries

Progressive Nida Allam is out with an ad tying Rep. Valerie Foushee to the military operation.

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Maine Sen. Susan Collins makes reelection bid official

Maine Sen. Susan Collins, New England’s sole Republican in Congress, formally launched her bid for reelection Tuesday.

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Maine shaken by ICE raids as backlash threatens Republican Senate control

Workers and unions condemn ICE operation as ‘horrific’ as pressure builds on Susan Collins, facing re-election this year

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ICE funding and surge across the nation set up Schumer for more shutdown pain

ANALYSIS: Democrats want ICE reforms but many want steeper changes than party leaders are willing to demand right now, John Bowden writes

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Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including immigration and campaign launches.

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Fight over ICE takes center stage in contested Senate primaries

The fallout from the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minnesota is reverberating in Senate races nationwide.

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Collins, Mills take different tacks on ICE's sweeping enforcement action in Maine

Maine’s leading Republican and Democratic officials are taking different approaches to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s sweeping ongoing action in the state

The Independent UK

Inside Schumer's plot to retake the Senate

Schumer and Democrats will need to flip at least four GOP-held seats to reclaim a majority.

Axios

Exclusive: Platner raises $5 million despite scandals

Platner's campaign said his average donation in the fourth quarter was $25.

Axios

From rent to utility bills: the politicians and advocates making climate policy part of the affordability agenda

As the Trump administration derides climate policy as a ‘scam’, emissions-cutting measures are gaining popularity

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Dems face a Tea Party-style revolt in Texas and beyond in 2026 races

Democratic establishment leaders have lost some power as progressives have turned on them.

The Conversation

Why rural Maine may back Democrat Graham Platner’s populism in the Senate campaign − but not his party

Every few years, Democrats try to convince themselves they’ve found the one – a candidate who can finally speak fluent rural, who looks and sounds like the voters they’ve lost.

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Maine Democrat Jordan Wood ends Senate bid to run for Golden’s seat - Roll Call

Maine Democrat Jordan Wood is ending his Senate campaign to run for the battleground House seat that Rep. Jared Golden is vacating.

The Independent UK

Graham Platner got an accidental nazi tattoo. The artist who covered it wants us to forgive him

‘We all make mistakes and we don’t have teams to cover it up for us’

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Bernie Sanders Says Democratic Victories Show People 'Sick And Tired' Of Trumpism

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said a string of Democratic victories on Tuesday, including Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoral race, delivers a clear message for 2026: that voters are rejecting "Trumpism."

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The most vulnerable senators of 2026, a year out from Election Day - Roll Call

Georgia’s Jon Ossoff and Maine’s Susan Collins top CQ Roll Call's list of the most vulnerable senators of the 2026 midterm elections.

The Independent UK

Florida man arrested by FBI for threatening lives of Trump foes in online comments section

Exclusive: Gregory Formicone, 57, is facing up to five years behind bars over assassination threats posted on far-right conspiracy site The Gateway Pundit

The Guardian - US

‘In this ’til the end’: Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner on refusing to quit amid furor over ‘Nazi’ tattoo

Platner’s populist campaign faces backlash over past comments and a contentious tattoo

Axios

Maine Gov. Mills, 77, won't release medical records as age become issue in Senate race

She's stepping into a generational battle within her party, as young progressives seek to push out the older establishment.

The Guardian - US

The leftwing defense of Graham Platner is rooted in a false Democratic vision

Tolerance for behavior like Platner’s is tied to a wrongheaded theory of the male working class. Zohran Mamdani illustrates a different path

The Guardian - US

Tattoo fixers on removing Nazi symbols: ‘You don’t know if they’re changing or hiding’

Deciding to cover up a tattoo, like Senate hopeful Graham Platner did, is so common there are free programs for it

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