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WASHINGTON, DC, February 26, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The States Newsroom, Stateline and our local affiliates are the best wire services in journalism today. They give the nation the best information out there when it comes to the best investigative stories or the days events from the State Legislature and Governors office.
The public is vulnerable to fall for political propaganda where there is no access to reliable news outlets and their local news outlet is laying off staff away from your state capital for investment reasons by their financiers. We need to ensure that the States Newsroom is not on a paywall and everybody gets the best news content from the United States especially from their state capital and there is reliable access for citizens to be well informed about the candidates on the state, county and city levels in the 2026 elections.
Here are some of the stories that the States Newsroom is covering to fact check the 2026 elections. Yes some of the topic seen here also affect the events in Washington DC. Topics include your state budget, access to education, immigration and lawsuits affecting climate change. These are major topics on your congressional and Governors election.
https://stateline.org/2026/02/26/e-verify-requirements-draw-business-pushback-in-some-republican-states/
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/hopes-pinned-senate-kill-proposed-barrier-free-college-older-kentuckians
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/kansas-house-advancing-new-state-budget-amid-concerns-about-spending
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/dems-ditching-state-union-blast-trump-immigration-lawlessness
https://stateline.org/2026/02/23/supreme-court-takes-up-climate-case-testing-local-lawsuits-against-oil-companies/
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About States Newsroom
States Newsroom is the nation's largest nonprofit news organization. We shine a light on policy and politics in state capitals around the nation and we provide that coverage for free, no pop-ups, paywalls or ads. In an era of rampant disinformation and news deserts, we provide nonpartisan coverage of the state issues that most affect people's daily lives.
Leading studies cite States Newsroom as key to filling the void in coverage left by staffing cuts at legacy media outlets. According to one study, the overall percentage of reporters working for nonprofit newsrooms in the statehouse press corps has more than tripled since 2014 and now makes up the largest portion of statehouse reporters in 10 states and the second largest in 17 states.
We run — or partner with — news outlets in all 50 state capitals.
We fully fund newsrooms in 39 states, each with its own website. They are:
Alabama Reflector – alabamareflector.com
Alaska Beacon – alaskabeacon.com
Arizona Mirror – azmirror.com
Arkansas Advocate – arkansasadvocate.com
Colorado Newsline – coloradonewsline.com
Florida Phoenix – floridaphoenix.com
Georgia Recorder – georgiarecorder.com
Idaho Capital Sun – idahocapitalsun.com
Indiana Capital Chronicle – indianacapitalchronicle.com
Iowa Capital Dispatch – iowacapitaldispatch.com
Kansas Reflector – kansasreflector.com
Kentucky Lantern – kentuckylantern.com
Louisiana Illuminator – lailluminator.com
Maine Morning Star – mainemorningstar.com
Maryland Matters – marylandmatters.org
Michigan Advance – michiganadvance.com
Minnesota Reformer – minnesotareformer.com
Missouri Independent – missouriindependent.com
Daily Montanan – dailymontanan.com
Nebraska Examiner – nebraskaexaminer.com
Nevada Current – nevadacurrent.com
New Hampshire Bulletin – newhampshirebulletin.com
New Jersey Monitor – newjerseymonitor.com
Source New Mexico – sourcenm.com
NC Newsline – ncnewsline.com
North Dakota Monitor – northdakotamonitor.com
Ohio Capital Journal – ohiocapitaljournal.com
Oklahoma Voice – oklahomavoice.com
Oregon Capital Chronicle – oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Pennsylvania Capital-Star – penncapital-star.com
Rhode Island Current – rhodeislandcurrent.com
South Carolina Daily Gazette – scdailygazette.com
South Dakota Searchlight – southdakotasearchlight.com
Stateline – stateline.org
Tennessee Lookout – tennesseelookout.com
Utah News Dispatch – utahnewsdispatch.com
Virginia Mercury – virginiamercury.com
Washington State Standard – washingtonstatestandard.com
West Virginia Watch – westvirginiawatch.com
Wisconsin Examiner – wisconsinexaminer.com
States Newsroom also has content-sharing agreements with 11 leading nonprofit newsrooms: CalMatters (California), Connecticut Mirror, Spotlight Delaware, Honolulu Civil Beat, Capitol News Illinois, CommonWealth Beacon (Massachusetts), Mississippi Today, New York Focus, The Texas Tribune, VTDigger (Vermont), and WyoFile (Wyoming).
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