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'MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN' Politico: ‘I Share Your Outrage’: Democrats Woo MAHA Moms Ahead Of The Midterms https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/09/i-share-your-outrage-democrats-make-overtures-to-maha-ahead-of-the-midterms-00817292?utm_campaign=KHN:+First+Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9mdNPrJ_RV0Kze3Gl39Ba9GGf1lDMf7kTac8dqq2HNrVPasLcdNBa1oQVERt0KbxvhIOcj46wXMPhKc7rPKp01PK4oZQ&_hsmi=407915789&utm_content=407915789&utm_source=hs_email The MAHA base is furious with the Trump administration over its promotion of a controversial pesticide. Democrats up for election this fall see a prime political opportunity in the infighting. President Donald Trump’s executive order on glyphosate, a chemical used in industrial farming, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s defense of that move, drove a wedge into the Make America Healthy Again movement. As Trump’s Justice Department prepares to back the chemical maker’s Supreme Court bid for legal immunity, it’s exacerbating MAHA’s existing frustrations with an administration that has had a checkered record on addressing their top priorities. (Ollstein and Reader, 3/9) The 19th: MAHA Movement Gains Democratic Ally In Rep. Chellie Pingree https://19thnews.org/2026/03/chellie-pingree-farmer-congresswoman-maha/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_rDWZqgR9GnxRfyj1xPpvionvBb9YFvQyWxIZGMQh2pBSAf5IDa9kpbO9WtRT7y4M9scMx30-U5a9o1Hw7WXjHy8lzdg&_hsmi=407915789&utm_content=407915789&utm_source=hs_email Long before entering politics, Rep. Chellie Pingree was a self-described hippie, a back-to-the-lander and an organic farmer. In the 1970s, after attending college in Maine, she saw an opportunity to live a more sustainable life there. She decided to stay, and moved to an island off the coast where she and her husband started a small farm and sold their produce at a local market. (Kutz, 3/9)