Steve Robinson is the Editor-in-Chief of The Maine Wire. He can be reached by email at [email protected].
Interview with Jerry Leeman: Today we bring you a story about a handful of fishermen rallying against a billion-dollar green industrial project, shady foreign corporations, and our own federal and state government. All are conspiring to generate a cash cow for...
By Greg Yates The criminal case People v Gosselin took place in a little red house structure known as the “Town of Highland Justice Court” located in Sullivan County, New York. This little red structure is also known as the Barryville Town Hall, where court is...
Maine Wire readers and talk radio listeners this week may have followed the imbroglio between me and the Secretary of State’s office this week regarding overseas voters. So I wanted to offer a simple explanation of what happened. For a more in-depth look, read our coverage here. But here’s the skinny: Under the Uniformed and
Maine’s Second Congressional District is headed for a recount that could last weeks after incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden emerged as the winner following a controversial Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) tabulation. After Election Day, Golden held a slim lead over Republican challenger State Rep. Austin Theriault of roughly 2,000 votes. However, under Maine’s RCV rules
It’s been a while since Chris Busby libelously claimed that I’m a paid subscriber to The Bollard newsletter in an amusing piece that shows he may still have some fight left in him after all. But I did not want his Oct. 15 missive and subsequent hit pieces to pass without remarking. Sadly — and
A Maine resident, who asked to remain anonymous, finally received a response to a Feb. 2024 request for public records submitted to Maine’s Secretary of State. The response, which came more than eight months after the request was submitted, included a “good faith” time and cost estimate of $15,075 in order to comply with the
In December 2023, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows made the unilateral decision to remove Republican President-elect Donald Trump from Maine’s 2024 ballots. The decision came in response to a complaint brought by a hodgepodge of Republican lobbyists and left-wing political operatives, including Sec. Bellows’ longtime friend and former employer, Ethan Strimling. Naturally, there were
The Maine Secretary of State’s office responded Wednesday to inquiries from media, party officials, elected representatives, and political professionals about the role overseas votes played in Maine’s 2024 elections and how the office accounts for overseas Absentee Ballot requests in public data. Last week, Maine’s elections saw an unprecedented number of overseas votes cast by
Republican State Rep. Austin Theriault will demand a recount of the election results from his race against Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep Jared Golden, the Maine Wire can confirm. Currently, Golden holds a lead over Theriault of less than one percent, 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent, and he has been declared the victor by many media
Maine’s top Democratic officials are declining to make any new efforts to secure Maine’s elections against non-citizen voting in the wake of an exclusive report from the Maine Wire showing that non-citizens are registered to vote in Maine. The Maine Wire’s Oct. 10 report used leaked data from Medicaid, known in Maine as MaineCare, that
Could former Republican President Donald Trump win not only the Electoral College but also the popular vote in 2024? It’s a possibility that CNN is preparing its predominantly left-wing audience to face. VERY interesting 👀CNN are now preparing their audience for the possibility of Trump winning the popular vote.“Part of my job is to warn
Election officials in Lancaster County, Penn., have uncovered approximately 2,500 instances of voter registration fraud, the county’s Board of Elections disclosed in a press release Friday morning. Staff detected the fraudulent applications during routine processing and quickly alerted law enforcement. [RELATED: Exclusive: Records Show Votes Cast Under Names of Non-Citizens in Multiple Maine Elections Since
The Franklin County Sheriff’s office made back-to-back traffic stops last Wednesday and Thursday that led to involvement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the deportation of more than a dozen illegal aliens. According to the police log from the Sheriff’s Office, Franklin County officers stopped a van carrying eight occupants who could not speak
The State of Maine welfare office in Portland attempted to help a Venezuelan illegal alien vote on Sept. 23, according to the non-citizen’s Spanish-language interpreter, who works with immigrants in Maine seeking welfare benefits. “She was applying for MaineCare and Food Stamps, and they asked her if she wanted to register to vote,” said the
A biologically male runner who identifies as a female has been dominating high school girls’ cross-country track competitions across Maine since he transitioned following a lackluster freshman season competing against other boys. The student, a junior at the Maine Coast Waldorf School in Freeport, dominated at the Western Maine Conference Championship in Standish on Wednesday
Whistleblower records obtained by the Maine Wire, along with voter registration records from the Maine Secretary of State’s office, show that multiple votes have been cast in Maine under the names of legal and illegal aliens who should be ineligible to vote in U.S. federal, state, and local Maine elections. The records include state-managed Medicaid
The transgender Maine high schooler who assaulted a high school girl on Friday was the subject of previous sexual harassment complaints at a different Maine school just months before video emerged showing him viciously attacking a classmate outside Mount Desert Island High School in Bar Harbor. The video, one of two showing the violent attack
Maine cities and towns — but not all of them — have already begun voting in the 2024 elections, with some municipalities opening elections for in-person absentee ballots as early as August. According to a list from the Maine Secretary of State’s office, as well as emails obtained by the Maine Wire, the process for
Incumbent Democrat U.S. Rep. Jared Golden faced off against State Rep. Austin Theriault (R-Fort Kent) last night in the first debate amid their race for Maine’s Second Congressional District. Golden, who first won Maine’s more conservative congressional seat in 2018, is facing is toughest re-election fight yet in a district that former Republican President Donald
The National Border Patrol Union endorsed State Rep. Austin Theriault (R-Fort Kent) Thursday in his bid to unseat incumbent Democrat U.S. Rep. Jared Golden in the race for Maine’s Second Congressional District. “We proudly endorse @AustinTheriault in Maine-02,” the Border Patrol Union tweeted from its official account on Thursday. “Austin will assist in cleaning up
A Democratic State Representative published an op-ed bragging about the 2023-2024, Democrat-led state spending spree just hours before the Mills Administration quietly disclosed that the State of Maine is projecting a nearly one billion dollar funding shortfall for 2026-2027. Without any Republican support or votes, Democrats created, approved, and signed into law the most recent
Electric Vehicles (EVs) have become a flashpoint in Maine politics over the past year thanks to an effort by the Mills Administration and left-wing outside groups to impose pro-EV mandates on car dealerships in the state. Those mandates, which Maine’s Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) considered but narrowly rejected, would have led to Maine adopting