SHOCKING: 19 | Mind Blowing Facts

Trump’s Budget Director Pick, on Path to Confirmation, Could Hurt Millions of Working-Class Americans Including MAGA Voters

Russell Vought has long proposed deep cuts to social programs like Head Start and SNAP that benefit lower-income people, who were key to Trump's election in both red and swing states.

Capital & Main · Feb 6, 2025

Trump Vows to Cut Oil and Gas Rules as New Mexico Looks to Fight Back 

The state’s challenge: How to police an industry that generates a third of the state budget and a third of its greenhouse emissions.

Capital & Main · Feb 5, 2025

As Activists Mobilize Against Drilling, Oil and Gas Operators Sour on Colorado 

Emboldened residents organize to halt Big Oil’s march toward the Rocky Mountain suburbs.

Capital & Main · Feb 4, 2025

Immigration Advocates Establish Hotline for Those Arrested Under Threat of Deportation

The phone number can be used to report apprehensions and connect families to lawyers.

Capital & Main · Jan 30, 2025

Four Months In, Kaiser Mental Health Strike Remains in a Standoff

The union and health care provider are split over pension and prep time issues.

Capital & Main · Jan 30, 2025

Border Crossings Have Declined. Yet ICE Keeps Moving Migrants Out of San Diego.

For those moved to detention facilities elsewhere in the country the odds of winning asylum decrease greatly.

Capital & Main · Jan 29, 2025

Maui’s Post-Wildfire Housing Crisis Offers a Warning for Los Angeles

After wildfires devastated the island, homelessness spiked. Advocates fear L.A. could face a similar fate without strong renter protections — and enforcement.

Capital & Main · Jan 28, 2025

Under a New Law, California Schools Hope Insurance Changes Lead to More Student Therapy

In areas like California’s rural Shasta County, school campuses may be the most effective places to care for children’s mental health needs, and such care will now be covered by insurance.

Capital & Main · Jan 27, 2025

How This Teachers’ Union Is Gearing Up for Trump 2.0 

National Education Association leader Becky Pringle says her union is preparing to fight for “our students, our public schools and, honestly, our democracy.”

Capital & Main · Jan 24, 2025

Immigrant Advocates Have a Message for Trump: Not In California

Head of the California Immigrant Policy Center said the state’s leaders and people are ready to stand against deportations and nativism.

Capital & Main · Jan 23, 2025