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Ex-President Obama claims he has such a patriotic duty to protect the populace from President Trump he’s doing so at…
PORTLAND, Maine – The 2026 Republican gubernatorial primary debate opened with two notable absences Thursday night, as CBS 13 moderator…
AUGUSTA, Maine – The Republican race for governor is heating up as the June 9 primary approaches, with Jonathan Bush,…
Sen. Susan Collins (R) has teamed up with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) to encourage Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner…
SOUTH PORTLAND — In an unusual move in Maine’s Republican gubernatorial primary, Jonathan Bush announced that fellow GOP candidate Robert…
BANGOR, Maine — Collins for Senator released its first television advertisement of the 2026 campaign cycle, focusing on U.S. Sen.…
The Portland Press Herald actually thinks it’s in the news business. With a blaring headline Wednesday night the paper wrote:…
The national GOP podcaster Tucker Carlson, who lives part-time in Maine, has seen his 2028 presidential odds rise recently. Carlson’s…
BANGOR, Maine – Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles pushed back forcefully against a Bangor Daily News report during an interview…
As Graham Platner pivots towards a pitched battle against Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) after Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) dropped out…
Do you understand ranked-choice voting? If not, LEAD Maine says you are not alone. LEWSITON, Maine – With Maine’s June…
PORTLAND, Maine – Republican candidates for governor squared off Tuesday night in a televised primary debate hosted by WMTW Maine’s…
Secret Service agents shot and injured an armed suspect found near the White House on Monday after he allegedly shot…
The National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) called Democratic Congressional Candidate Jordan Wood at 1:00 a.m. to inform him that…
Invitation to Maine Democratic Party executive director comes in wake of dust-up over weekend convention press coverage The host of…
LEWISTON, Maine — Lewiston taxpayers are expected to rally outside City Hall tonight as anger over the city’s first property…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Former Republican gubernatorial candidate and current state senator James Libby has endorsed fellow Republican Jonathan Bush in…
LEWISTON, Maine – Republican gubernatorial candidate David Jones will be in Lewiston on Saturday for a volunteer cleanup event aimed…
Barney Frank, reprimanded as a congressman after hiring and then living with a male prostitute, now is giving Democrats advice?…
As of May 1, most employees in Maine are eligible to take up to twelve weeks of paid leave to…
Maine isn’t the only state where Somali immigrants have used the home health care system to draw millions in taxpayer…
By Neil Harper I was walking off a small ceremony shoot on a beach in Wells, Maine, photographing a young…
Portland, Maine – Graham Platner has built his U.S. Senate campaign around the image of an average Maine working man.…
The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias released a lengthy report last week detailing the…
Conservative businessman and Maine gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush tells Breitbart News the GOP has a “much better chance”of holding its…
As reported in the Robinson Report Republican Robert “Bobby” Charles holds a nearly 40-point lead over his closest competitors in…
AUBURN, Maine — Republican gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush spent a busy Saturday on the campaign trail in Auburn, drawing supporters…
NEW YORK – U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) took aim at Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner during an…
The top jock on the Boston waves who’s made a career out of humiliating then-Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Barney Frank now…
“Welcome thy stranger.” “Love thy neighbor.” Those are the words Maine Democrats like to repeat, until the person asking questions…
Owen McCarthy, the health-tech entrepreneur seeking the Republican nomination for governor, took his first swing at television this week with…
Angus King III proved during the first key statewide Democrat primary pivotal televised debate he doesn’t have Daddy’s killer instincts.…
A foster child who was ripped from her mother and nearly later died of addiction is applauding a Republican state…
PORTLAND, Maine – The five Democrats running for governor took the debate stage Thursday night in a statewide “Commitment 2026”…
After Portland Press Herald writer Steve Collins admitted earlier this week he had lied about fellow Democrat Janet Mills, he’s…
Not sure Graham Platner meant to say what he did by trying to praise Janet Mills as she exited stage…
PORTLAND, Maine – A dispute over next week’s WGME-TV Republican gubernatorial debate is intensifying after candidate Robert Wessels said he…
Outgoing Maine Gov. Janet Mills, who threw in the towel Thursday on her U.S. Senate dream, is looking for a…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner issued a statement Thursday praising Gov. Janet Mills’ public service and…
Gov. Janet Mills established a new “Maine Data Center Advisory Council” with an executive order on Friday following backlash from…
The Maine governor’s political bedfellow over at the state’s largest paper just stuck a shiv in his good pal. Columnist…
AUGUSTA, Maine— State Rep. Deqa Dhalac’s time in Augusta politics is effectively winding down, but the questions surrounding her past…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine Senate Democrats voted Wednesday to adjourn sine die, ending the Second Regular Session of the 132nd…
Maine’s Legislature voted on Wednesday to uphold Gov. Janet Mills’ (D-Maine) surprise veto of a bill that would have placed…
The nation’s former top cop was indicted – and the subject of a federal arrest warrant -Tuesday over a photo…
In what had to be a Harvard Lampoon exercise, councilors held a standing ovation for a city manager who’s resigning…
Are you angry yet? Are you paying attention? Because you should be. The Maine Democratic Party is bringing Minnesota Gov.…
PORTLAND, Maine – The four Democrats running for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District nomination took the debate stage Tuesday night, televised…
LEWISTON, Maine – Lewiston taxpayers are furious after receiving new property revaluation notices showing massive increases in assessed values, setting…
The wife of the leading Democrat primary candidate for U.S. Senate, who’s made a campaign issue out of her difficulty…
Rep. David Boyer (R-Poland) is organizing the “Rally to Save Maine’s Kids” for Wednesday and is asking Mainers to come…
If Biddeford city officials thought they were getting calm after a storm by hiring a rookie manager, they were off…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Following his fiery, no-holds-barred address at the Maine Republican Party Convention, businessman David Jones is entering the…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Republican gubernatorial candidate Garrett Mason delivered a wide-ranging speech to delegates at the Maine Republican Party convention,…
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” That was the now-infamous phrase uttered by Democrat Rahm Emanuel,…
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) joined all voting Republicans and just 19 other Democrats on Thursday to vote in favor of…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Republican gubernatorial candidate Ben Midgley addressed supporters Saturday morning at the Maine GOP Convention, delivering a speech…
AUGUSTA, Maine — In a rare show of unity at the Maine Republican Convention on Saturday, all seven Republican candidates…
WASHINGTON – What began as a high-profile evening of politics, media, and tradition abruptly turned into chaos Saturday night when…
Gov. Janet Mills’ Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is once again withholding payments from MaineCare providers, delaying some…
AUGUSTA, Maine – U.S. Sen. Susan Collins addressed the crowd Friday at the Maine GOP Convention, urging Republicans to unite…
Standish, Maine – Republican gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush spoke Tuesday at the Cumberland County GOP meeting, where he introduced himself…
Every state sends a signal about what it values. Through its laws, its taxes, and its priorities, a state quietly…
Graham Platner continues to dominate the Maine Democratic Senate race in an April internal poll that shows his lead over…
Alleged mortgage fraudster, former Democratic Senate President, and current gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson took aim at his Republican opponent Jonathan…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a landmark lawsuit against ActBlue on Monday, accusing the Democratic Party’s preferred fundraising vehicle…
PORTLAND, Maine — Graham Platner (D) closed out his Saturday night campaign rally at the Holiday Inn in downtown Portland…
AUGUSTA, Maine – A controversy that is still not widely known to many Mainers is beginning to break into public…
Awkward ole’ Joe Biden never disappoints – or fails to embarrass.Unveiling a portrait of himself at Syracuse University, Biden called…
Portland city officials are pulling a fast one on the taxpayers by claiming they are eliminating jobs to cut taxes.It’s…
By Rep. Laurel Libby Last week, Augusta Democrats passed a supplemental budget that includes a new income tax bracket, adding…
If Maine’s southern-district congresswoman loses the state’s largest leftist newspaper then she’s got a huge problem – unless she’s planning…
A California veteran congressman accused of rape pulled out of the state’s gubernatorial primary Sunday, two days after an explosive…
By Senator Scott CyrwayFor decades, I have walked the beat, patrolled our roads, and worked within our halls of justice…
Maine’s Secretary of State is again blatantly mis-serving the People of Maine by misshaping another referendum question. Having created confusion…
AUGUSTA, Maine – State Rep. Barbara Bagshaw, (R-Windham) is raising concerns about LD 2226, warning that proposed changes to Maine’s…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine Republicans on Wednesday tore into Democrats over what they described as a late-night budget dump that…
Lewiston – Maine. Bobbi Nichols, a survivor of the Lewiston mass shooting who lost her sister, Tricia Asselin, in the…
A Hancock County judge has finally put the brakes on convicted porn king and disbarred lawyer Eliot Cutler’s attempts at…
The beleaguered, term-limited chief executive of Maine desperately trying against all apparent odds to get a job promotion is using…
AUGUSTA – Republican lawmakers are intensifying criticism of Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) following new developments in…
The Maine Supreme Court is in unanimous agreement that expanding the use of ranked-choice voting to include all state elections…
By Carroll Conley About six years ago, while leading the Christian Civic League, I was approached multiple times by trusted…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Democratic gubernatorial candidate Hannah Pingree took to social media Wednesday to weigh in on the child labor enforcement case…
The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a Maine mom’s case against a Damariscotta school in which she…
Mainers bear the fifth highest overall tax burden nationwide, according to a recent study published by personal finance website WalletHub.…
MAINE — A highly coordinated network of over 500 activist groups organized nationwide “No Kings” protests across the United States…
BIDDEFORD, Maine — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dr. Nirav Shah delivered a wide-ranging policy message Sunday during a town hall in…
The polls be damned, Republican Bobby Charles has decided who’s going to be the Democrat gubernatorial nominee in Maine.Charles, clearly…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, the Maine Republican who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the Senate’s passage of…
AUGUSTA, Maine – A new campaign ad released by Janet Mills’ (D) U.S. Senate campaign features an Army veteran and…
York County GOP Chair Heidi Sampson and Independent York Sheriff Candidate Brian Pellerin challenged David Corbett’s petition to run for…
Because Maine is in peril, Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment is in abeyance. As the eight Republican candidates for governor squared…
Maine Senator Angus King (I) has joined a group of his Independent and Democratic Senate colleagues in calling upon Secretary…
All eight of Maine’s Republican gubernatorial candidates gathered for the first time in Bangor on Tuesday evening for A Clash…
In another Democratic display of selective outrage, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) announced on X that she has formally endorsed…
WATERVILLE, Maine — While many candidates talk about Maine’s child welfare system from the outside, Shawn Packard says he has…
A third contender – claiming a mantle of bureaucratic reform – has emerged in what until now has been a…
Sam Patten is a contributor to the Maine Wire. Is the government about to charge national media personality Tucker Carlson…