The Biggest Upset of Election Night Could Come From South Carolina – Mother Jones

Lindsey Graham’s sister inherited his Senate seat. Plenty of Republicans aren’t buying it…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/11/annie-andrews-darline-graham-the-biggest-upset-of-election-night-could-come-from-south-carolina/ 

‘Man, I loved that’: Trump cheers South Carolina rally attender who hit protester

President was reportedly heckled at least nine times during campaign event for Darline Graham…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/21/trump-south-carolina-rally-darline-graham

 

South Carolina pastor, wife arrested after sex offender found working at church preschool

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8I-ThXffYk

 

Clyburn’s seat survives for now as South Carolina Republicans buck Trump on redistricting - POLITICO

South Carolina Republicans defied President Donald Trump and blocked a redistricting measure that would have drawn out the state’s lone Democrat, Rep. Jim Clyburn. 

The move Tuesday all but kills their chances of flipping that seat for 2026. It’s possible the GOP will still draw out Clyburn before 2028...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/26/south-carolina-redistricting-fails-clyburn-trump-00936000

‘This is a very clear warning’: After Indiana, redistricting pressure mounts in the South - POLITICO

On Sunday night, Trump made his desires clear. 

“We cannot allow there to be an Election that is conducted unconstitutionally simply for the ‘convenience’ of State Legislatures. If they have to vote twice, so be it,” he posted on Truth Social. “The byproduct is that the Republicans will receive more than 20 House Seats in the upcoming Midterms!”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/trump-redistricting-south-carolina-midterms-00909253

 

As measles spreads in South Carolina, RFK Jr’s allies work to gut vaccine laws

Activists who dispute safety of vaccines are pushing to limit immunization requirements in schools…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/02/measles-south-carolina-rfk-jr-vaccine-laws

 

"He Gets Us" Still Doesn't Get It (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #622)

— The “He Gets Us” campaign has a PR problem no Super Bowl ad can solve. (1:23)

— Oklahoma finally scraps Bible-heavy, conspiracy-laced Social Studies standards. (22:24)

— Trump’s “Religious Liberty Commission” just got sued for its pro-Christian bias. (36:49)

— Court rules against anti-trans Christian teacher who demanded right to misgender students. (47:23)

— Judge refuses to toss The Satanic Temple’s lawsuit, putting Boston’s flag policy on trial. (57:29)

— South Carolina’s bill to force the Ten Commandments in school is doomed to fail. (1:07:31)
Interview: 

https://friendlyatheistpodcast.com/2026/02/12/he-gets-us-still-doesnt-get-it/

HHS Wasn’t Worried About South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak. It’s Now Enormous. – Mother Jones

"CDC is not currently concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak," the agency said in December…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/hhs-rfk-south-carolina-measles-outbreak/ 

 

South Carolina poll worker lawsuit

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ibd7M-QH-xk

Fire destroys home of South Carolina judge who had received death threats

Goodstein, who has served on the state judicial bench since 1989, in September issued a temporary injunction on the release of the state's voter files to the Trump administration-led US justice department. 

Goodstein's ruling was later publicly criticized by an assistant attorney general for the justice department's civil rights division, Harmeet Dhillon. The division has been at the forefront of efforts to acquire information, including names, addresses, driver's license numbers and social security numbers, of more than 3 million registered voters under an executive ordertargeting "non-citizen voter registration"…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/isouth-carolina-judge-home-fire

 

Republican legislator in South Carolina agrees to plead guilty to child sexual abuse imagery charges

RJ May is accused of trading hundreds of photos of children involved in sex acts, and faces up to 100 years in prison…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/republican-south-carolina-rj-may-child-sexual-abuse-imagery

 

‘Entire neighborhoods will have to move’: growth collides with rising seas in Charleston

'Entire neighborhoods will have to move': growth collides with rising seas in Charleston…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/09/charleston-rising-seas

 

Black man targeted in racist attack says South Carolina needs hate crime law

The Richland county sheriff's department alleged that following his arrest Felkel admitted he fired because of the man's race…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/07/south-carolina-racist-attack

 

 

Republican in South Carolina arrested over distribution of child sexual abuse material | South Carolina | The Guardian

A Republican member of South Carolina's state house whom prosecutors say used the screen name "joebidennnn69" has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/rj-may-south-carolina-child-sexual-abuse 

 

Lindsey Graham DESTROYED In Embarrassing Ad By Surprise Senate Candidate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9WME8yuYng

SC Supreme Court strikes down voucher scheme giving tax dollars to private schools

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L30C93U0z7o

‘He didn’t do it’: days before execution in South Carolina, key witness says he lied

Two days before South Carolina is scheduled to execute a man on death row, the key witness for the prosecution has come forward to say that he lied at trial and the state was putting to death an innocent man. 

Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, 46, is due to be killed by lethal injection on Friday. His attorneys filed emergency motions to halt the execution, citing new testimony asserting that Allah was wrongfully convicted, but the state supreme court denied the requests late Thursday, saying the execution should proceed...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/south-carolina-execution-freddie-owens

Trans adults stripped of healthcare access sue South Carolina over GOP bill: ‘I’m desperate’

"A law like this sets a pretty dangerous double standard for medical care that is clearly discriminatory," they said. "There is no mistake here that this law violates the constitutional rights of transgender people."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/29/south-carolina-aclu-trans-healthcare

🚨 Supreme Court drops CRUSHING ruling in long-awaited case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2-x62_c7ZM

Think tank says Alito misconstrued its research in SC gerrymander case

"In sum, we agree with Alito when he noted that 'non-white voters turn out at a much lower rate than white voters.' But his conclusion that this fact means that racial data cannot be used to draw maps that could discriminate is simply not the case," Morris wrote. 

"What this data can and does establish, however, is that the Court's retreat from protecting voting rights for people of color has resulted in increasing gaps in participation in places like South Carolina," he concluded...

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4690200-think-tank-says-alito-misconstrued-research-sc-gerrymandering-case/