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Over 300 skiers and snowboarders dressed as Santa hit the slopes Sunday in Maine to raise money for a local charity.

National Republicans targeted more than half a dozen races in New England as pickup opportunities this year, but they picked up none.

Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), the main super PAC aligned with the House Republicans released a campaign ad slamming Maine Democrat Rep. Jared Golden for failing Maine lobstermen.

Maine Democrat Gov. Janet Mills is scrambling five weeks before the election to stem political damage from revelations that her administration was teaching students in an online curriculum that “MAGA” is racist.

Democrat Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) came out strongly against voter ID during a debate with her opponents on Tuesday evening, saying Maine residents “don’t need” to show proof of identification and argued it would “inhibit” voting.

The Maine Department of Education promotes an organization that distributes breast binders to minors and hosts overnight camps for six year olds who identify as transgender in a “confidential location.” The state’s Department of Education also promotes a website that hosts an online chat for children as young 13 who identify as transgender. The site includes a button that quickly transports youth to a weather forecasting website in order to obscure the page.

The Maine Department of Education has doubled down on allowing one of its taxpayer-funded online learning programs to instruct high school students that the term “MAGA” is an example of covert racism and white supremacy.

Portland Public Schools in Maine is considering moving to a four-day school week for special education students as the school district is unable to fill teaching positions.

Portland, Maine, is facing an ongoing migrant crisis that threatens to overflow the city’s housing capacity and drain its funds. 

Republican candidates, bolstered by a bleak economy, have opportunities to flip seats in New England that could leave the region specked in a Rust Belt-looking red after the midterms.

Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) may defect from his party on certain votes, but he furthers the Democrat agenda simply by helping the party to maintain its slim majority, former Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) said during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday.

LEWISTON, Maine — Former Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) is campaigning across Maine’s vast rural Second Congressional District with an economy-focused agenda that he hopes will resonate with the district’s working-class and elderly populations.

A 12-year-old boy named Brayden Nadeau from Maine was born to farm, and started a produce stand two years ago.

LEWISTON, Maine — Former Gov. Paul LePage is back and looking to ignite hope among Maine’s working class amid a period of national economic decline.

The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) is hopeful of flipping four Democrat-controlled state legislatures in the upcoming midterm elections.

Republicans are emboldened by polling data pointing to a red wave across the country, even in traditionally blue states, Republican State Leadership Committee Communications Director Andrew Romeo explained to Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle this past weekend.

A former Maine Department of Education (DOE) official sent an email to employees drawing parallels between the death of George Floyd and a video of a kindergarten teacher explaining transgenderism, according to a Washington Free Beacon report.

Former Gov. Paul LePage (R) lauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday that Maine’s tuition assistance program cannot exclude religious schools.

The Supreme Court sided 6-3 against Maine’s education program, which excludes tuition assistance for students attending religious schools.

Former Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) won the Republican primary race in Maine’s Second District on Tuesday and now moves on to a rematch against Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) in the general election.

Former Gov. Paul LePage cruised through the Republican gubernatorial primary in Maine unopposed on Tuesday, officially setting up a face-off against incumbent Democrat Gov. Janet Mills for November.

Voters in several states nationwide head to the polls in primaries and in a special general congressional election in Texas on Tuesday, further testing former President Donald Trump’s endorsement strength and perhaps foreshadowing a looming red wave in November.

A Maine-based nonprofit that has greeted upwards of 1.5 million servicemembers at the Bangor International Airport in the last 30 years recently resumed welcoming operations after the Chinese coronavirus stalled them.

Various areas of Maine, including the Bangor International Airport, are reimplementing mask mandates due to changes in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) transmission map.

Gov. Janet Mills (D) has a slight three-point edge over former Gov. Paul LePage (R) in Maine’s gubernatorial race, according to a poll released Monday.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) offered electric vehicles as a solution to Mainers’ increased energy costs during a recent discussion with a Northeastern University technology center in Portland.

The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), a state Republican-aligned campaign arm, launched a series of digital ads in Democrat states to emphasize their failed far-left policies at the state level that have crippled domestic energy production.

A quick-thinking seven-year-old boy from Maine quickly sprang into action and called 911 when he witnessed his mother having a seizure.

Democrats in Portland, Maine have advanced a proposal to give foreign nationals the right to vote in municipal elections, likely putting the measure on the ballot for voters. 

A significant amount of oil for heating was reportedly stolen from a church in Maine as the national average price for gas surges.

Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) on Tuesday called for the Mills administration and state legislature to cut Maine’s fuel tax in response to gasoline prices reaching record highs across the nation.

A Maine legislative committee rejected a bill meant to create a legal defense fund for lobster fishermen fighting against environmental regulations that activists claim will protect North Atlantic right whales.

Spending promises Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) made during her State of the State address Thursday night were met with swift backlash from state Republicans, who said Mills’ “federally-funded fantasyland” was not the answer to high inflation and unemployment rates.

Maine State Police are commending a trooper who located and saved an Alzheimer’s patient after he wandered away from his Vassalboro home.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) state budget does not have enough money to meet Mills’ “clean transportation” goals and her administration is now floating ideas for new sources of funding, including a gas tax, according to a report the administration released this month.

SCOTUS heard oral arguments in a Maine case on whether students can use state aid to attend schools that provide religious instruction.