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Anywhere but Washington

Exploring what America's most overlooked peoples and places reveal about a nation divided.

  • Is Joe Biden's bid for re-election in trouble? – video

    In the vital swing state of Michigan, growing fractures among the Democratic base could spell trouble for Joe Biden in the November election. As party loyalists canvas in the run up to a primary vote, a protest movement against the president’s support for the war in Gaza gains momentum. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone visit the state.
  • Why are Republicans still supporting Donald Trump? - video

    Despite facing multiple criminal charges, Donald Trump remains the frontrunner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. But in South Carolina, a traditionally conservative southern state, a split is opening up between Trump loyalists and more moderate Republicans who are fearful of what their party has become
  • How John Fetterman broke Trump’s red wave in Pennsylvania – video

    In the vital swing state of Pennsylvania, progressive Democrat John Fetterman defeated the TV celebrity Dr Mehmet Oz in a race that could determine the balance of power in Washington 

  • How Donald Trump's legacy poisoned Arizona’s fragile democracy - video

    In Arizona, all of the statewide Republican candidates for the midterm elections have falsely claimed the 2020 election result was not legitimate. As these conspiracy theories spread, Oliver Laughland travels to Phoenix to meet Adrian Fontes, the Democrat trying to defeat Trump loyalist and election denier Mark Finchem in the race for secretary of state


  • Moral panic, culture wars and Ron DeSantis: will Florida stay red in 2022? – video

    Oliver Laughland travels to Walt Disney World, Florida, to see how a law restricting the teaching of LGBTQ+ issues is affecting voters in the run-up to the midterm elections

  • Can abortion rights swing the US midterm elections? – video

    In the lead-up to the US midterm elections, the Guardian's Oliver Laughland travels to Indiana, the first US state to pass a new abortion ban into law following the overturning of Roe v Wade. Can Democrats who are campaigning on the issue make inroads at the ballot box?

  • George Floyd: a landmark moment for justice in America? – video

    The murder trial of Derek Chauvin drew the attention of the world to Minneapolis, an epicenter of the Black Lives Matter movement after the murder of George Floyd. In some areas of the city people have reclaimed the streets, while others are under military occupation. With the area reeling from yet another recent police killing, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone spent time with activists, lawyers, eyewitnesses and members of the Floyd family to see how this landmark moment in American racial justice is shaping the city

  • Insurrection and inauguration: Joe Biden's new political era - video

    Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to Washington DC for the week of Joe Biden’s inauguration to find a city coming to terms with the trauma of Donald Trump’s final days in office

  • Supporters of Joe Biden gathering near the White House to celebrate after he was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election on 7 November.

    Anywhere but Washington: an eye-opening journey in a deeply divided nation

    The team behind the series tell how they covered the most important, emotionally charged and divisive election for a generation
  • How Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in the fight for America’s soul – video

    In the final episode of Anywhere but Washington, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone return to Florida, the crucial swing state that Donald Trump won last week 

  • Biden-Harris and Trump-Pence supporters stand together at Vera Minter Park in Abilene, Texas last week. Common ground between two factions of the same nation can feel non-existent.

    On my travels, I saw a vision of two Americas – but which one will triumph?

    In my reporting from America’s battleground states, I‘ve met voters who share one nation but believe in two wildly opposed ideals for its future
  • God and the GOP: will conservative evangelicals stay loyal to Trump? – video

    In 2016, white evangelicals made up a quarter of all US voters. And 81% of them voted for Donald Trump. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone head to the pivotal battleground state of North Carolina to see if Trump's religious base is showing signs of crumbling. They meet extreme evangelical pastors, travelling progressive preachers and the moral movement leader Rev William Barber  

  • Broken promises and alternative facts: how Donald Trump failed Ohio – video

    After winning the 2016 election, Donald Trump promised to deliver new jobs and economic prosperity to Youngstown, Ohio, a city suffering from decades of decline. But four years on those promises never manifested. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone meet residents who lost their jobs and had their families split by economic necessity, and witness how the demise of the city’s only newspaper made it harder to hold politicians accountable for their failures

  • Angela Stanton-King being interview by Oliver Laughland

    Trump ally running for Congress believes in baseless QAnon sex-trafficking conspiracy

  • Civil rights and QAnon candidates: the fight for facts in Georgia - video

  • Candace Valenzuela, a candidate for US Representative in Texas’s 24th district, in El Paso, Texas. 2020.

    The Texas electorate is changing – but could Biden really flip the state?

    The 24th district between Fort Worth and Dallas is a microcosm of political shifts in the state and a test of which vision of the suburbs is more accurate
  • Battle for the suburbs: can Joe Biden flip Texas? – video

    Texas is a rapidly changing state with the fastest growing population in America. Hispanic Texans are set to become the majority by 2022, but will this help Joe Biden flip a Republican stronghold? Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to suburban Dallas and the border city of McAllen to look at the political impact of this diversification and the legacy of Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies 


  • Troubled Florida, divided America: will Donald Trump hold this vital swing state? - video

    With six weeks until the most important election in a generation, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone are crossing the US to uncover the political fault lines that underpin American politics. In the vital swing state of Florida, the race for the White House is tightening by the day

  • 'Those horrible pink hats': midterms divide women in era of #MeToo – video

    With record numbers of female candidates in the US midterm elections, Paul Lewis travels to New Mexico, where both the Democrat and the Republican standing for a House seat are women. He finds women divided – over Trump, the MeToo movement, and Deb Haaland, a Democrat campaigning to be the first Native American woman elected to Congress
  • 'The dirt poor will eat the filthy rich': How a Democrat can win in Trumpland – video

    Richard Ojeda, a retired army major, is a Democrat running in a West Virginia district that voted for Donald Trump. But how does a leftwing populist explain his own vote for the president?

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