NC Policy Watch: “In an afternoon full of recitations of numbers and policy details on states’ experiences with Medicaid expansion, former Ohio governor John Kasich told North Carolina legislators that getting health insurance to more people was just the right thing to do. “What I would say to the fine members of the legislature in…

AL Political Reporter: “Nearly three in five Alabamians (59.3 percent), including 56.1 percent of Republican voters, support legislation that would remove the state sales tax on groceries without cutting education funding, according to a new poll commissioned by Alabama Arise. Only 25.3 percent of respondents opposed the plan, with another 15.5 percent saying they were unsure…

Political Wire: ““Republican lawmakers in Georgia were poised on Tuesday to advance a bill expanding law enforcement’s power to investigate election fraud, adding to a broader push by U.S. conservatives for more restrictive voting laws after former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged,” Reuters reports.”

AL Political Reporter: “Barbara Maxwell found out her son died in an Alabama prison from another incarcerated man who called her, and from a Facebook post by another who said he’d overdosed on fentanyl and heroin.  Maxwell now wants to spread awareness of the rampant drug problem in Alabama’s overpopulated, understaffed and deadly prisons. She…

MS Free Press: “Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a victory today as he signed a bill into law that he and other Republican lawmakers have falsely claimed would ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in the state’s public schools and community colleges. In a pre-taped video that the governor posted to his social-media channels…

LA Voice: “Ukraine has won the hearts of most of the rest of the world while Putin has been forced to call on Syrian reinforcements to do what his own army could not. Putin has won worldwide condemnation except in the cases of a few tyrants much like himself in North Korea, China, Syria, etc….

TX Tribune: “Thousands of Texans who attempted to vote by mail in the March primary were disenfranchised in the state’s first election conducted under a new Republican voting law. The state’s largest counties saw a significant spike in the rates of rejected mail-in ballots, most because they did not meet the new, stricter ID requirements….

WaPo: “Disney announced on Friday that it would pause all political donations in Florida in the wake of a controversial state bill that restricts discussion of LGBTQ issues in public schools. Over the last few weeks, the company had received criticism for remaining silent about what critics call the “don’t say gay” bill, which is expected to be…

WaPo: “Some are exquisite condemnations from learned and accomplished men who escaped their enslavement. Some are brief queries, shots in the dark, dictated by illiterate women. One is brilliant sarcasm, humorously calculating and requesting back wages. All of these letters from Black Americans to the people who once controlled their lives show a desire for…

NY Times: “It is billed as the largest economic development project in the history of Georgia, an electric vehicle factory that could grow to be five times as large as the Pentagon and produce as many as 400,000 emissions-free trucks a year. The factory, to be built by the upstart electric automaker Rivian, is being…