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Oliver Willis

Senior Reporter

Former research fellow at Media Matters for America who has been blogging about politics since 2001.

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Wind turbines are seen in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Oct 15, 2021. (STRF/STAR MAX/IPx)

Inflation Reduction Act has led to a clean energy boom, new reports show

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivers his third State of the State address, March 28, 2021, from his old classroom at Mankato West High School in Mankato, Minn. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

Republicans want to investigate Tim Walz for teaching high school students abroad

Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks before President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, at Prince George's Community College, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024 in Largo, Md. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Medicare secures billions in savings on prescriptions

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., a Republican, talks to reporters as he arrives to the Republican caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Some House Republicans admit that Harris-backed law ‘created good jobs’

Lincoln Electric System Sunshares Solar Farm absorbs sunlight to produce energy in Lincoln, Neb., on Friday, March 30, 2018. (ELSIE STORMBERG/THE WORLD-HERALD)

Department of Agriculture approves $30 million for Nebraska solar energy project

Solar electric panels are viewed outside of a home in the Wedgefield neigborhood, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. (Phelan M. Ebenhack via AP)

Thousands of Nebraska residents claimed home energy tax credits

North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley, center, speaks while Dave Almeida with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, left, and Gov. Roy Cooper listen at an Executive Mansion announcement on Monday July, 1, 2024, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

Biden-Harris administration backs action to cut medical debt

Amazon employees load packages on carts before being put on to trucks for distribution for Amazon's annual Prime Day event at an Amazon's DAX7 delivery station on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, in South Gate, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

U.S. economy continues to improve under Biden-Harris administration

Two anti-abortion protestors are reading the Supreme Court's decision on emergency abortions in Idaho as they are standing vigil outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP)

Anti-abortion organizations attack Kamala Harris’ presidential candidacy

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about voting rights at Howard University in Washington, Friday, July 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Harris has cast more tie-breaking votes in Senate than any vice president in US history

Graduating college students sitting during a ceremony.

Biden administration forgives more student loan debt

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) departs a House Democratic Caucus meeting at Democratic National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill July 9, 2024. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)

Democratic platform draft calls for lowering health care costs, protecting abortion rights