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10/01/2026

10/1 Absentee ballots are on their way to the 64,000 Maine voters who requested them, and early in-person voting starts in Maine on Monday

09/30/2026

9/30 President Trump is apparently using $20 million in taxpayer dollars to run those TV ads about himself

09/30/2026

9/30 Mainer and professor of American history Heather Cox Richardson says Senate race in Maine is about “reclaiming our democracy”

09/29/2026

9/29 Filling out the voter registration status-check form on Maine.vote gives your data to a conservative Maine PAC campaigning for Senator Collins. The form on VoteSafe.org goes to a database owned by Elon Musk's PAC.

Mainers should be cautious.

09/29/2026

9/29 Republican Maine governor candidate Bobby Charles denies saying he planned to ask for ICE agents at Maine polling places

09/29/2026

9/29 Mainer/historian Heather Cox Richardson on the best way Mainers can influence the Senate election, speaking at a campaign event for Troy Jackson at USM in Portland Monday evening

09/28/2026

9/28 The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram editorial board published a scathing editorial Sunday about Senator Susan Collins's "extremely disappointing" reaction to ProPublica's report about the FBI last year abandoning its investigation of bribery allegations against her. "It’s audacious to insist on innocence and stoke conspiratorial lines of thinking by reaching for terms like 'partisan hit job,'" the board wrote.

09/28/2026

9/28 My full 90-minute interview with Republican Maine governor candidate Bobby Charles is now live. We talked about a wide range of policy issues, including his plans for taxes and spending cuts, housing, abortion, Flock cameras, immigration enforcement, election integrity, test scores, Senator Collins, and President Trump.

We also talked about his two opponents, Hannah Pingree and Rick Bennett, and his experience in Washington.

09/28/2026

FULL INTERVIEW: Bobby Charles is the Republican nominee for governor of Maine, and we sat down in Winthrop in mid-September for a conversation about a wide range of policy issues, including taxes, election integrity, privacy, abortion, immigration and much more.

09/27/2026

9/27 Republican Maine Governor candidate Bobby Charles tells me "of course" he's supporting Senator Susan Collins and that they "are in complete lockstep." Full interview coming on MONDAY.

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