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An Open Letter to House Speaker Busch and Senate President Miller: We are 66 women and genderqueer people who live in Maryland’s 43rd legislative district,…
There is no way to overstate the significance of House Speaker Michael E. Busch’s decision to make Del. Luke H. Clippinger (D-Baltimore City) the…
The just-concluded primary election for the county executive in Montgomery County provides an apt lesson in why party primaries should be open to all…
There are 1.709 million reasons why Democrats should be concerned as they mobilize for the November general election. That’s the combined number of Republicans…
In 1986, former Illinois Sen. Adlai Stevenson III, who came from one of the most storied Democratic families in U.S. history, left the Democratic…
At the bitter and chaotic end of the war in Vietnam, in April 1975, America undertook a massive airlift of South Vietnamese refugees out…
Last month’s primary elections demonstrated Marylanders are not as energized as we have seen voters in many other states’ elections since President Trump took…
We’ve had our say. Now it’s your turn. Maryland Matters published its list of post-primary winners and losers and asked for your feedback. Now,…
A week after the election, Maryland Democrats are wondering whether their nominee, former NAACP president Benjamin T. Jealous, can defeat Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan…
Several key primary races have gone into overtime [see related story], so guess what — so has Maryland Matters’ primary prediction contest. Democratic primaries for…