The Maryland Nonprofit Behind the Lawsuit That Just Knocked Out Trump’s 75-Country Visa Suspension
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A federal judge has struck down one of the Trump administration’s broadest immigration...
Congress & Federal Affairs
Maryland Officials React to Court Ruling Restoring FBI Headquarters to Greenbelt
Maryland leaders began responding Monday to the federal court decision striking down the Trump administration's attempt to...
Trump’s FBI Headquarters Switch Is Dead — For Now. Greenbelt Is Back in Play.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A federal judge sitting in Greenbelt ruled Monday that the Trump administration had no...
Maryland’s Van Hollen Bet Big on a Michigan Candidate Who Wants Him Running the Senate Democrats — Raskin Cheered From the House
Van Hollen was the first sitting senator to back Abdul El-Sayed after Bernie Sanders. Raskin called his win proof of...
Power Over People: How Annapolis Rewrote the Rules — and What It Ignored to Do It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Maryland General Assembly closed its three-day special session Tuesday night having...
Van Hollen Isn’t Even on the Ballot. He’s Still Doing the Socialists’ Work for Them.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Chris Van Hollen has no primary to survive and no general election to win in 2026. He...
Anne Arundel Schools Face Federal Investigation Over Policy That Let Staff Withhold a Student’s Gender Transition From Her Parents
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Anne Arundel County Public Schools is now the subject of a federal investigation that could...
The Bipartisan Rider Nobody’s Enforcing: USDA Presses Ahead On Beltsville Closure While Congress Says Stop
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's largest federal research complex is closing, and Congress told the U.S....
A Citizen Child Unlocks Food Benefits for an Undocumented Household — And That’s the Law, Not a Loophole
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A reply to MDBayNews' coverage of Maryland's record 630,000-student SUN Bucks enrollment...
What the Supreme Court’s Coordinated-Spending Ruling Means for Maryland
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Supreme Court's decision Tuesday in NRSC v. FEC, striking down federal limits on how...
Did Trump Just Punk the Democrats Into America First?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Riptide | Dead Reckoning Today, the Senate voted 50-48 to direct the president to end the...
The Lobbyist on the Ballot: How Adrian Boafo Spent Four Years Serving Oracle and Maryland at the Same Time
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Adrian Boafo is running for Congress on a platform of accountability. He's also the only...
MARYLAND’S AG WAS PRAISED BY VANCE TWO WEEKS AGO. NOW HE’S SIGNED A LETTER REFUSING THE WHITE HOUSE.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Two weeks ago, Vice President JD Vance stood at a White House podium and held Maryland up...
The Leak Nobody Reported: How Joint Base Andrews Lost 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel — and Maryland Didn’t Find Out for Months
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Sometime last December, a refueling system at Joint Base Andrews failed a pressure safety...
EPA Completes Potomac Cleanup Ahead of Schedule. Wes Moore Is Still Silent.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday that the federal cleanup of the Potomac...
Congress Demands D.C. Crime Data Records — And Maryland Should Be Asking the Same Questions
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is demanding records from the...
They Knew — And Didn’t: The Warning That Came Too Late, and the Sister Who Was Already in Maryland
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews WASHINGTON — Cole Tomas Allen sent his family a manifesto minutes before he charged a...
Maryland’s Raskin Leads 25th Amendment Push — But His Own Record Undermines the Case
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Rep. Jamie Raskin introduced legislation this week to establish a congressional commission...
Jamie Raskin’s Political Money Machine: Millions Raised, Millions Spent — and Questions About Where It All Goes
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Rep. Jamie Raskin has built a national profile as one of the Democratic Party’s most...
Maryland Feels the Fallout: DHS Shutdown Exposes Washington’s Political Dysfunction
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews As the partial shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) enters its fourth...
Follow the Money: A Look at Rep. Johnny Olszewski’s Donor Network
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Fresh campaign finance filings offer a revealing look at the financial ecosystem...
April McClain Delaney: The Establishment’s Technocratic Moderate—or Just Another Cog in the Democratic Machine?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland’s 6th Congressional District has long been one of the most politically...
Van Hollen’s Off-Year Money Machine: A Look at His Top Donors Since 2025
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Chris Van Hollen is not on the ballot in 2026. His Senate seat is a Class III seat, meaning...
Surprise Visit to Baltimore ICE Facility Produces Empty Rooms — But Not Empty Rhetoric
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A highly publicized “surprise” visit by Maryland’s Democratic congressional...
$35 Million for Annapolis? Federal “Resilience” Spending Raises Questions About Priorities
By MDBayNews Staff ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland’s congressional delegation is celebrating the release of more than $35...
Maryland Democrats Spend Sunday Attacking ICE as War Expands and DHS Funding Hangs in the Balance
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews While headlines around the world focused on escalating conflict with Iran and the confirmed...
Operation Epic Fury: Maryland Watches — But Is Not at War
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Operation Epic Fury is now in its second day. The U.S.-led campaign, conducted in...
As Iran’s Supreme Leader Confirmed Dead, Maryland Democrats Stick to Script
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews With multiple major outlets now confirming that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...
Decades of Appeasement: Maryland Democrats Still Don’t Understand Iran
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews For years, Maryland’s Democratic leadership has followed the same foreign policy playbook...
Maryland Delegation Split on State of the Union Night
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On February 24, 2026, President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address...
DHS Funding Fight Raises Stakes for Maryland’s Federal Workforce
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On several occasions, Chris Van Hollen has made his position unmistakably clear, including...
Boycotts and Bluster: Another Symbolic Protest from a Career Politician
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen announced he would skip President Trump’s upcoming State...
Brown’s FBI HQ Lawsuit: Maryland Taxpayers Deserve Answers, Not Press Releases
By MDBayNews Staff Editor’s Correction (Updated 2/20/26):An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the...
Maryland Freedom Caucus Slams Unscheduled Jeffries Visit After House Floor Delayed
By MDBayNews Staff ANNAPOLIS — Tensions flared in the Maryland House this week after an unscheduled visit by U.S. House...
After 30 Days of Silence, Maryland’s Federal Democrats Finally Send a Letter on Potomac Sewage Spill
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews For nearly a month after the catastrophic collapse of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line,...
300 Million Gallons of Failure: Maryland’s Leaders Missing as the Potomac Fills with Sewage
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Potomac Interceptor collapsed on January 19 in Montgomery County — releasing an...
Alsobrooks vs. RFK Jr.: Oversight or Obsession?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When Rolling Stone publishes a headline declaring that a United States senator has made it...
When “Know Your Rights” Becomes Know How to Undermine the Law
By MDBayNews Staff Maryland Rep. Sarah Elfreth this week accused the Trump administration of “weaponizing ICE” while...
House Overturns D.C. Tax Changes, Escalating Fight Over Federal Tax Relief and Home Rule
By MDBayNews Staff Washington, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to overturn a District of Columbia...
Congress Moves to Reshape D.C. Attorney General Role, Raising Local-Control and Accountability Questions
By MDBayNews Staff A newly revived congressional proposal to end the District of Columbia’s elected attorney general and...