For most Native American women, the Indian Health Service is their only means of healthcare (especially on reservations, where it might be a drive of hours and hours to the nearest non-IHS clinic, even if they had private insurance). No exemptions were made in the Hyde amendment for IHS, and even though Hyde does…

Sigh. If only there were some younger candidates who hadn’t spent decades on the wrong side of so many issues before polling data pushed them to get woke...

“No legislature in any one of these states — which are mostly white men, mostly older men — they cannot know a minute of your experience. Not a minute of your experience as a mother, not a minute of your experience that you were this close to putting your life in your own hands,” Gillibrand responded.

Depends on the context. In the context of a Democratic primary, yeah she’s not electable. Politically, she’s further left than a lot of the party. That’s not to say she couldn’t draw people over but in order to do so, she has to have a solid starting base of support from where she is at in the party.

From Politico:

Still better than anyone on the (R) side of the aisle.

It is genuinely worth noting that, in Texas, accepting oil money is somewhat of a political necessity. In the gulf region in particular, a cue to folks whose livelihoods depend on oil (no matter how wrong that is) has become a relative friendliness to that industry.