A gay Maine man seeking Susan Collins’s senate seat says he isn’t buying Graham Platner’s redemption story

I believe deeply in second chances,” Democrat Jordan Wood told The Advocate. “But what I saw was someone who doesn’t ...

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says he covered up tattoo that resembled Nazi symbol

Platner is a U.S. military veteran and oyster farmer running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Maine.

Who is Graham Platner, Maine's Senate candidate and why is he in the national spotlight?

Graham Platner, a veteran and oyster farmer from Maine who is running as the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, is ...

Jake Auchincloss says controversial candidate Graham Platner should drop out of Maine senate race

Auchincloss, a Democratic US House representative from Newton, also criticized past political statements that Platner posted ...

Democrats’ dilemma on Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner

If anyone thought recent revelations about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s past would give Democrats instant clarity ...

Democrats, Sanders, Jacobin defend Maine’s Graham Platner following Nazi tattoo revelation

Self-identified “progressive” Democrats and Jacobin magazine are defending the longtime soldier for US imperialism even as ...
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Graham Platner and the Online Rush to Judgment

At some point, we have to recognize that we just don’t know about the Maine Senate candidate’s past motivations—or about much of anything else, either.

Platner says Democratic Party ‘trying to destroy my life’

Graham Platner, the embattled Maine Senate candidate, accused his own party of trying to “destroy my life” during a packed ...