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Graham Platner
October 23, 2025
Alex Shephard
Graham Platner Is a Disaster. Democrats Need More Candidates Like Him.
Well, maybe not
exactly
like him.
October 22, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Graham Platner Reveals His Nazi Tattoo Cover-Up
The Democratic Senate candidate is responding to the backlash over his “Totenkopf” tattoo.
October 21, 2025
Edith Olmsted
It Sure Sounds Like Graham Platner Knew He’d Gotten a Nazi Tattoo
The Maine Senate candidate claimed he had no clue what his tattoo symbolized.
October 16, 2025
Perry Bacon
Not All Old Candidates Are Joe Biden, and Not All Young Ones Are Great
All things being equal, sure, Democrats ought to lean toward younger candidates. But there are many times when all things aren’t equal.
October 14, 2025
Right Now With Perry Bacon
Transcript: Maine’s Mills-Platner Senate Race Is A Huge Dem Battle
Governor Janet Mills U.S. Senate run against Graham Platner will pit the Democrats’ establishment wing against the insurgent bloc, says Maine journalist Alex Seitz-Wald.
Video is available for this article
October 14, 2025
Right Now With Perry Bacon
Maine Senate: Platner-Mills Is a Huge Clash Over the Dems’ Vision
Governor Janet Mills’s U.S. Senate run against Graham Platner will pit the Democrats’ establishment wing against the insurgent bloc, says Maine journalist Alex Seitz-Wald.
Video is available for this article
September 10, 2025
Virginia Heffernan
Maine’s Graham Platner Has Discovered a Secret: Poor Whites Exist!
In the American political lexicon, whites are “working-class” and people of color are “poor.” The Maine Democratic candidate for Senate knows otherwise.
August 29, 2025
Ana Marie Cox
The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Taking on Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
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