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6/6 Maine immigrant rights groups launch mapping tool to document ICE actions, track data independently of the federal government #maine #MEpolitics

6/5 On MS NOW, Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner discusses news reports of his text messages with women who were not his wife #maine #MEpolitics

6/5 On MSNOW, Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner denies allegation he was rough with an ex-girlfriend, admits he was not 'a good boyfriend' #maine #MEpolitics

6/5 Maine governor candidate Troy Jackson calls attack ad on his abortion record from Nirav Shah-aligned PAC “outright lies” #maine #MEpolitics

6/3 Senator Susan Collins voted for an anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ federal judge nominee rated “unqualified” by the Bar Association. Katie Lane is 34 years old, has never tried a case, and was confirmed to a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. #maine #MEpolitics

6/2 President Trump named a political loyalist with no relevant experience as the new Acting Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday. Bill Pulte is best known for weaponizing a federal housing agency against the President's political opponents. #maine #MEpolitics

6/1 Maine governor candidates Angus King III and Jonathan Bush loaned their campaigns hundreds of thousands of dollars last month #maine #MEpolitics

6/1 Maine’s new Data Center Advisory Council will hold its first meeting on Wednesday #maine #MEpolitics

5/31 Senator Collins and the Maine Wire strangely draw attention to Graham Platner's military service and her Iraq War votes #maine #MEpolitics

5/30 Two-thirds of Maine Republican voters DON'T want to cut MaineCare. Their candidates for governor want to do it anyway. #maine #MEpolitics

5/28 Graham Platner up 9 points on Senator Susan Collins in new Maine Senate poll #maine #MEpolitics

5/28 Maine leaders, educators, students celebrate newly passed ban on cell phones in public schools at event in Westbrook on Wednesday #maine #MEpolitics

5/27 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nirav Shah has proposed a plan to end childhood hunger in Maine #maine #MEpolitics

5/26 Graham Platner discusses why he voted for Troy Jackson, Shenna Bellows, and Hannah Pingree for Maine governor #maine #MEpolitics

5/26 NESN takes down Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner's campaign ad whacking private equity’s partial ownership of the Red Sox #maine #MEpolitics

5/23 New poll confirms that Bobby Charles is still leading the Republican field for Maine governor, despite the millions of dollars in ads spent promoting his two top opponents #maine #MEpolitics

5/23 Federal judge tosses the Trump Administration's lawsuit to get Maine's private voter rolls #maine #MEpolitics

5/21 Maine’s transgender referendum appears likely to be removed from November ballot #maine #MEpolitics

5/20 A new poll has Graham Platner leading Senator Collins, 48-41, in Maine's U.S. Senate race. The poll is the first public poll since Governor Janet Mills suspended her campaign. #maine #MEpolitics

5/19 Maine Governor Janet Mills has endorsed former Speaker of the Maine House Hannah Pingree for governor #maine #MEpolitics

5/18 Dozens of Flock cameras now have Mainers under surveillance, whether they’ve done anything wrong or not #maine #MEpolitics

5/17 Full Maine Monitor database of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner's Reddit comments paint a more nuanced picture #maine #MEpolitics

5/16 President Trump tells reporters "I don't think about Americans' financial situation" after question about Iran nuclear negotiations #maine #MEpolitics

5/16 Maine Senator Susan Collins votes for a second time to help banks charge overdraft fees, this week voting against restoring a Biden-era rule that banned surprise overdraft fees #maine #MEpolitics

5/15 Democratic Maine gubernatorial candidate Angus King III delivers his closing statement at WGME/Bangor Daily News' debate last week #maine #MEpolitics

5/15 Democratic Maine gubernatorial candidate Shenna Bellows delivers her closing statement at WGME/Bangor Daily News' debate last week #maine #MEpolitics

5/14 Vice President J.D. Vance used a taxpayer-funded event in Bangor Thursday to repeatedly campaign for Paul LePage for Congress, praising him or urging Mainers to vote for him seven times #maine #MEpolitics

5/14 Democratic Maine gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson delivers his closing statement at WGME/Bangor Daily News' debate last week #maine #MEpolitics

5/13 President Trump gave a secret no-bid contract to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to a company that works on his golf club’s swimming pools #maine #MEpolitics

5/13 Democratic Maine gubernatorial candidate Hannah Pingree delivers her closing statement at WGME/Bangor Daily News' debate last Tuesday night #maine#MEpolitics

5/12 Immigration enforcement activities in Maine appear to be ramping up again #maine #MEpolitics

5/12 Democratic Maine gubernatorial candidate Nirav Shah delivers his closing statement at WGME/Bangor Daily News' debate last Tuesday night #maine #MEpolitics

5/11 Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner calls for elimination of federal gas and diesel taxes in energy plan #maine #MEpolitics

5/11 Vice President J.D. Vance will speak in Bangor, Maine on Thursday #maine #MEpolitics

5/10 Republican Maine governor candidate Jonathan Bush addresses domestic violence against then-wife during WGME/Bangor Daily News debate on Thursday #maine #MEpolitics

5/10 After gutting Department of Education and campaigning to end federal education standards, President Trump wants states to revive the Presidential Fitness Test and competition #maine #MEpolitics

5/9 Republican Maine gubernatorial candidate Ben Midgley delivers his closing statement at WGME/Bangor Daily News' debate on Thursday night #maine #MEpolitics

5/9 Republican Maine gubernatorial candidate Garrett Mason delivers his closing statement at WGME/Bangor Daily News' debate on Thursday night #maine #MEpolitics

5/8 Republican Maine gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush delivers his closing statement at WGME/Bangor Daily News' debate on Thursday night #maine #MEpolitics

5/7 Limestone, Maine, Republican caught and charged with felony voter fraud #maine #MEpolitics

5/7 Senator Collins “ducked” a question from Press Herald about support for $1 billion in tax dollars for President Trump’s White House ballroom #maine #MEpolitics

5/7 Maine’s brand-new paid family and medical leave program is now underway. Democrats in Augusta have worked for more than a decade to create the program, passing it into law in 2023 and spending 2024 and 2025 getting the program up and running. #maine #MEpolitics

5/5 The cost of President Trump’s gifted Qatari Air Force One now is now as high as $800 million, with as much as $400 million upgrades and $400 million in a pair of additional 747s purchased for training and spare parts #maine #MEpolitics

5/4 Two more Mainers join ICE lawsuit, say someone at DHS called them threatening to add them to database of domestic terrorists #maine #MEpolitics

4/30 As U.S. war on Iran reaches two months, oil and gas prices reached a four-year high. Gas in Maine averaged $4.24 on Thursday; $5.78 for a gallon of diesel; and $5.07 for a gallon of home heating oil. #maine #MEpolitics

4/30 BREAKING NEWS: Maine Governor Janet Mills drops out of U.S. Senate race, paving the way for Graham Platner to win the Democratic nomination and run against Republican Senator Susan Collins in November #maine #MEpolitics

4/29 Billionaire donor to Collins SuperPAC is responsible for bankrupting mills in Bucksport and Jay #maine #MEpolitics

4/27 Maine Gov. Janet Mills has vetoed the data center moratorium bill to protect the Jay mill redevelopment project, but Mills said she agrees with the moratorium and will use executive authorities to convene the coordinating body the bill would have created. #maine #MEpolitics

4/27 Portland, Maine, City Council to vote Monday on proposed 3,300-seat Live Nation venue #maine #MEpolitics

4/27 BREAKING NEWS: Collins allies have launched an unusually early $2 million ad buy attacking Democratic candidate Graham Platner #maine #MEpolitics

4/23 The risk of fraud with petition signatures for Maine’s trans referendum could still knock it off the November ballot. A judge is expected to rule by Monday and could put the question back on Secretary of State Shenna Bellows's desk. #maine #MEpolitics

4/22 Maine's Sierra Club endorsed Shenna Bellows, Troy Jackson, and Hannah Pingree for governor on Wednesday, calling them all "environmental champions" #maine #MEpolitics

4/22 Report: FBI director Kash Patel’s drinking, absences, and paranoia are worrying to law enforcement, the Trump Administration, and Congress #maine #MEpolitics

4/21 Maine Senator Susan Collins's re-election campaign took PAC money from pharmaceutical companies that sued to stop Medicare price negotiations #maine #MEpolitics

4/21 Republican Maine gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush wants to cut $1 billion from Mainers’ income taxes #maine #MEpolitics

4/20 Two PACs backing Maine Senator Susan Collins took contributions from Epstein-connected donors #maine #MEpolitics

4/20 President Trump’s energy secretary said Sunday that gas prices may not return to below $3 per gallon until next year #maine #MEpolitics

4/19 U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren rallied for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner in Portland on Saturday evening. 1,250 people turned out for a night focused on being more aggressive in pursuing policies that will benefit working people instead of billionaires. #maine #MEpolitics

4/18 Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund endorsed Gov. Janet Mills for Maine’s U.S. Senate seat on Friday, sharply criticizing Senator Susan Collins for her actions rolling back abortion and reproductive care rights #maine #MEpolitics

4/17 Governor Mills discusses highlights of newly adopted state supplemental budget #maine #MEpolitics

4/17 U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner wants a 5 to 6% billionaire wealth surtax for a more just tax system #maine #MEpolitics

4/16 U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner reacts to ads attacking him using A.I.-generated footage #maine #MEpolitics

4/14 The stunning account of Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz — the UMaine alum civil engineer taken from his car in Portland during the ICE surge in January — who today partnered with the ACLU of Maine to sue the agents who took him #maine #MEpolitics

4/14 Maine takes steps to insulate Maine Family Planning and Planned Parenthood from Trump Administration cuts #maine #MEpolitics

4/13 Maine governor candidate Troy Jackson unveils his plan for making Maine's tax system fairer #maine #MEpolitics

4/12 Maine will NOT expand ranked-choice voting to state elections after all #maine #MEpolitics

4/11 The Maine legislature may pause the development of large data centers for 18 months to give the state time to develop a strategy for them. Gov. Janet Mills on Friday said she's concerned the bill doesn't have a carve-out for a proposed project in Jay. #maine #MEpolitics

4/9 BREAKING NEWS: Maine legislature approves millionaire tax while passing supplemental budget #maine #MEpolitics

4/9 Amazon is planning its third and fourth Maine distribution centers... these two in Hermon and Waterville. Site work is already underway at the old Bangor Drive-In site. #maine #MEpolitics

4/8 Why do so many Maine Senate races lack Republican candidates this year? It's because five candidates — longtime Republicans — switched their party affiliation to run as Independents instead. #maine #MEpolitics

4/7 Maine Senator Susan Collins says she’d retire after sixth term if she wins in November, then immediately walks it back and re-opens the door to serving a seventh term #maine #MEpolitics

4/7 President Trump threatens war crimes and genocide if Iran doesn’t reopen Strait of Hormuz by 8 pm Tuesday #maine #MEpolitics

4/2 I'm sorry, I'm pretty burned out and need a minute to regroup. I'll be back at it in a few days but felt it important to explain my absence. #maine #MEpolitics

3/31 Federal judge ‘seems skeptical’ that the feds are entitled to Maine’s voter data #maine #MEpolitics

3/27 President Trump decides to pay TSA workers after all; negotiations for ICE reforms end #maine #mepolitics

3/26 Maine gas and home heating oil prices still rising as war on Iran chokes oil markets #maine #MEpolitics

Toughest ticket in Maine? Or Hearts? #maine #mepolitics

3/25 Democratic Maine gubernatorial candidate Angus King III discussed his vision for education at a press conference outside his old elementary school in Topsham on Tuesday #maine #MEpolitics

3/24 Deering High School soccer player, mom, and sister are back home in Maine after four months in ICE detention #maine #MEpolitics

3/24 Maine governor candidate Nirav Shah’s plan for supporting Maine seniors centers on workforce training #maine #MEpolitics

3/23 President Trump HAS sent ICE to airports... but not yet to airports in Maine #maine #MEpolitics #bangor #bangormaine #augustamaine #lewiston #portlandmaine #yorkmaine #republican #maga #trump #immigration #ice #deportation #immigrants #border

2/19 Lawyers for DHS admitted in court Monday that ICE agents in South Portland, Maine, acted improperly when threatening legal observers with being added to "a nice little database" as 'domestic terrorists' #maine #MEpolitics

3/19 The Pentagon has requested another $200 billion for the war on Iran #maine #MEpolitics

3/18 Independent Maine Senator Angus King writes that SAVE America Act, which the Senate is debating this week and which Republican Senator Susan Collins supports, “is a direct assault on one of America’s most sacred principles.” #maine #MEpolitics

3/18 President Trump’s counterterrorism advisor has resigned over the war on Iran #maine #MEpolitics

3/18 Democrats in Augusta are making a renewed push to pass a set of bills to address Maine’s childcare crisis #maine #MEpolitics

3/17 The five Maine state legislators who voted last week against a bill that would create a state-level a backstop for SNAP benefits if the White House withholds them again collectively represent 12,000 SNAP beneficiaries who rely on a combined $2 million in benefits each month #maine #MEpolitics

3/16 Report: Erika Kirk is bringing a Turning Point Faith event to Portland in May after a local church reserved the Portland Expo Center for a "worship night" at a discounted rate, then handed the rental over for the "Make Heaven Crowded" tour #maine #MEpolitics

3/15 Three things Mainers should know that happened this week in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran #maine #MEpolitics

3/14 Press Herald reports that DHS notified local police that the ICE surge in Maine was ending a week before Senator Collins announced it #maine #MEpolitics

3/13 Democrats in Augusta advanced a bill Tuesday to create a safety net for Mainers’ food assistance benefits, which President Trump attempted to withhold for political leverage during the government shutdown in October #maine #MEpolitics

3/11 Maine's attorney general says new bill to expand ranked-choice voting to state races is still hamstrung by the state's constitution #maine #MEpolitics

3/10 Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows asks DHS for written pledge it won’t deploy ICE agents to polling places in 2026 election #maine #MEpolitics

3/10 Gov. Mills has fired back at President Trump, Dr. Oz over MaineCare fraud allegations, saying in a video late Friday, "#Maine will not be intimidated by the threats of a president who is using allegations of fraud as a pretext to hurt people. We will fight back." #MEpolitics

3/10 Gas prices in Maine have risen 56 cents per gallon since start of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran #maine #MEpolitics