If you’re out shopping for Black Friday deals today, remember: it’s a time of great stress and pressure for workers who don’t get to spend the day with their family and friends, and often work long shifts. Be kind, and take a moment to thank a retail worker.

We have our first candidate to succeed Doug Hoffer and I guarantee it's not who you were expecting: sugaringoff.org/2025/11/25/c...

And they're off! The '26 LG race is underway as Molly Gray throws her hat in the ring. Read more about her announcement and the other potential candidates: sugaringoff.org/2025/11/19/m...

After much consideration, I’m running for High Bailiff of Windsor County — not out of political ambition, but because this office matters. It’s a constitutional safeguard that ensures accountability and continuity in all forms of government. 1/4

The #vtpoli Chittenden-Central District is in for another hotly contested primary next year: sugaringoff.org/2025/11/06/c...

The Vermont #vtpoli angle on the Virginia elections: former Rep. Felisha Leffler (formerly of Enosburgh) lost her bid for the VA House of Delegates by 19 points: sugaringoff.org/2025/11/04/f...

The curious case of the Senator in the group chat: sugaringoff.org/2025/10/14/t...

How it started vs. how it's going: #vtpoli

Phil Scott may be the country's most popular governor, but he's not invincible. It's time for Democrats to give him a real race. All we need is a credible candidate to step up. sugaringoff.org/2025/08/04/w...

After a decade of rollbacks by SCOTUS MAGA justices, passing the John Lewis VRAA is key to restore bedrock voting protections. @warnock.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov & @blumenthal.senate.gov are reintroducing this bill 👇

The Republicans' Interior Appropriations Bill eliminates environmental protections to give handouts to billionaires. WATCH @delauro.house.gov expose their reckless cuts that will drive up costs for families, enable corporate polluters, and harm our National Parks. 👇

The GOP passed their Big Ugly Bill, which raises costs and cuts programs millions rely on to fund massive billionaire giveaways. We stand with Leader @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & @housedemocrats.bsky.social in pressing on to defend working families and our climate. We will never stop fighting.

"It takes food off kitchen tables, throws clean energy workers out of jobs, spikes utility bills, and why? So billionaires and oil companies can cash in. Big Oil gets handouts, working families get scraps." WATCH @repmcgovern.bsky.social expose R's Big Ugly Bill 👇 The House must #VoteNo.

I broke down how Vermont's "Education Transformation Bill" became law and serve up some takes in my latest piece in Sugaring Off: sugaringoff.org/2025/06/20/i...

Bill passed the Senate 17-12 and is now being debated in the House.

If the bill clears the Senate, I don't think it will have much difficulty in the House as long as Minority Leader Pattie McCoy can keep her caucus in line for the governor. #vtpoli

If my math is right, the Senate has the votes to pass H.454. We'll know for sure when they come back from lunch (currently thinking around 2-2:30), but the geographic/ideological coalitions could be goofy. #vtpoli

Injured owlet giving me a skeptical look… before deciding maybe I wasn’t so bad.

“We cannot roll back the clock to a former era where America became economically paralyzed due to oil embargoes and dirty manufacturing.” Thank you @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social for standing up to Trump and Congressional Republicans’ attacks on clean energy 👇

Vermont Senate just adjourned until tomorrow, Baruth asking conferees to meet tomorrow at 9:00 AM. "We don't have language, and we don't yet have a finished deal, although things are close." #vtpoli

“I’m really concerned that one of the first things you did was make deep painful cuts at our parks and start talking about our public lands like they’re a piggy bank.” WATCH @pattymurray.bsky.social call out Secretary Burgum’s reckless cuts and make it clear: Our public lands are not for sale. 👇

The AI-slopification of Vermont politics has begun (and no, it's not just Republicans). Read more below ⤵️⤵️

It's been 250 years since Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga. But have you ever heard the full story? (Hint, there was a lot more rum than you learned about in school.) Read all about it here: sugaringoff.org/2025/05/08/c...

#vtpoli news from Down Under courtesy of @newenglandpolitico.bsky.social: Phil Scott is running for the Australian parliament. www.philscott.com.au

This is so insidious. As an elected election official, I can tell you that the only thing this bill will do is make hours of new work for your election workers and huge headaches for millions of Americans. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Hey C-SPAN stop cutting in to the CR amendment votes to play reruns of the Dr. Oz hearing! We want to hear the roll calls!

A Town Meeting Day Roundup: sugaringoff.org/2025/03/05/t...

It's time once again for America's favorite game show: How Many People Do I Know On This Flight From DCA to BTV?

Feels really weird seeing Seth Meyers in a suit again... #SNL50

Two Republican lawmakers are proposing new limits on fundraising by candidates for Vermont Legislature. What they don't seem to realize is that their bill would hurt their own party far more than anybody else. thevpo.org/2025/02/11/h...

Lunchtime at the zoo.

I'm curious but also very skeptical about this. Have magnet schools ever been successfully implemented in a place as rural as #vtpoli? vtdigger.org/2025/02/06/g...

🎶It's the most wonderful time of the year (campaign finance report season🎶 Find out who's spending what in the Queen City below ⤵️

Senator @rebeccawhite.bsky.social joined me to talk about her new role as Senate Majority Whip, her takeaways from the Governor's budget address and education reform proposal, and much more! Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/4QC9...

ICYMI: the first episode of From the Sugar Shack, Sugaring Off's new Vermont politics podcast, is now available on Spotify and Amazon Music: open.spotify.com/episode/1Trq...

ICYMI: the first episode of From the Sugar Shack, Sugaring Off's new Vermont politics podcast, is now available on Spotify and Amazon Music: open.spotify.com/episode/1Trq...

New committee leadership is taking shape in the General Assembly! Read all about it here: sugaringoff.org/2025/01/10/c...

My writeup of today's legislative shenanigans in Montpelier: sugaringoff.org/2025/01/08/a...

It’s been 2.5 years since I took over as ED at the VDP, and I’ve never had a better, more meaningful job in my 20+ years of politics. I’ve helped thousands of VTers find your power to make Vermont a better place to live, work and raise a family. And now it’s time for me to move on.

I hope our next ED also plays Magic: the Gathering 😢

Today, I'm introducing legislation to tackle the loneliness epidemic, isolation, and mental health. Loneliness is a crisis, especially in rural areas, for seniors, and among young people. The Combating Loneliness Act invests in social connection, mental wellbeing, and community.

Hey Bluesky! I'm Becca, Vermont’s Congresswoman. I love to take my dog on hikes, ride my motorcycle, and spend time with my family. I'm in this fight for working people and equality for everyone. We're entering a period of uncertainty, but we cannot give in to despair. All of you give me hope!

Election Day was a rough one for Democrats across Vermont, but perhaps nowhere more so than Caledonia County, where the VTGOP flipped Jane Kitchel's Senate seat and four House seats, leaving Caledonia Democrats with just one Democratic legislator.

How did legendary VPR reporter Bob Kinzel's Mirror Towns hold up in 2024? Read more: sugaringoff.org/2024/11/18/h...

Of the six seats that Vermont Democrats lost in the State Senate on election night, perhaps the most surprising came in Addison County, which hadn't elected a Republican Senator since 2000. Incumbent Chris Bray, chair of the Natural Resources Committee, narrowly lost reelection.

How did legendary VPR reporter Bob Kinzel's Mirror Towns hold up in 2024? Read more: sugaringoff.org/2024/11/18/h...

Legislative Democrats are shaking up their leadership after taking heavy losses on Election Day. Read more: sugaringoff.org/2024/11/17/s...

The first of many maps of Vermont's 2024 state legislative elections! In the Orange County district, longtime incumbent Mark MacDonald was defeated by businessman and former Topsham selectman Larry Hart. 🧵

🚨 BREAKING: President-Elect Trump announces nomination of the Late, Great, Hannibal Lecter to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services.