Charles built a campaign ad around raising Maine's homestead exemption. More than 327,000 Mainers claim that break every year. His own town says he never has — and his campaign still can't say how he'd pay to expand it.
One Nation, the Senate GOP's dark money arm, runs at least six websites that look like local newspapers. They exist to flatter Dan Sullivan, Susan Collins, Jon Husted, and Ashley Hinson — and voters are never told who is paying for them.
Elon Musk's America PAC has authorized up to $120 million across eight states, and Maine is on the target list. Updated August 14: the Senate Leadership Fund has committed $42 million of its own — though FEC filings show only $776,326 of it has actually been spent so far.
Trump's acting attorney general told a private prayer call he wants the Dobbs decision made permanent in all 50 states. Senate Republicans just voted to make him attorney general.
Collins says the Justice Department has become 'increasingly political.' She voted to confirm Todd Blanche as deputy attorney general in March 2025 — and she announced her no vote hours after the two Republicans with real leverage cut their deal and let him through committee.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
Collins cast the deciding vote to confirm Kavanaugh in 2018 on the assurance that Roe was 'settled law.' He voted to overturn it. Asked in Maine this summer whether she'd do it again, she said yes.
In June, Collins voted for $70 billion in ICE funding with no strings and against an amendment putting $300 million into body cameras and releasable footage. After an ICE agent killed a young father in Biddeford, she announced ICE would have cameras by the end of August — Maine first, 'at my request.'
