4/20 Two PACs backing Maine Senator Susan Collins took contributions from Epstein-connected donors #maine #MEpolitics
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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
4/15 BREAKING NEWS: Maine Senator Susan Collins voted for the fourth time to allow President Trump to continue the war on Iran on Wednesday. She joined all but one Republican to defeat the resolution, 47-52. The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is on Day 46. #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 Home heating oil prices have jumped 30% in #Maine since the start of the war on Iran, according to new data released Thursday by the state energy department. It will cost Mainers $316 more today to fill a standard home heating oil tank than it cost last month. #MEpolitics
3/19 The Pentagon has requested another $200 billion for the war on Iran #maine #MEpolitics