
Matthew Chapman
National Political Writer
Video game designer and science fiction author from Texas. Can be found on Twitter @fawfulfan.
Senate Bill 2880 also establishes a bounty allowing any private citizen to sue a person they suspect of helping a Texas woman leave the state to get an abortion.
By Bonnie Fuller - May 16, 2025About 41 million Americans currently receive SNAP benefits.
By Jesse Valentine - May 15, 2025About 9.9 million receive Medicaid because of a physical or mental disability.
By Jesse Valentine - May 14, 2025Huizenga is reportedly planning a U.S. Senate campaign.
By Jesse Valentine - May 12, 2025Ciattarelli is running in the Republican primary for New Jersey governor
By Jesse Valentine - May 09, 2025LePage vetoed Medicaid expansion and a minimum wage hike as governor
By Jesse Valentine - May 06, 2025Earle-Sears served on the Virginia Board of Education from 2011 to 2015.
By Jesse Valentine - May 05, 2025The White House has given no indication that Trump will appoint new leadership at the FEC.
By Jesse Valentine - April 30, 2025Ciattarelli said in 2017 that a state government audit would lead to “false savings and phantom revenues.”
By Jesse Valentine - April 30, 2025The Center for American Progress estimates the proposal could lead to 34,000 additional deaths every year.
By Jesse Valentine - April 24, 2025Forty percent of student loan debtors do not have college degrees.
By Jesse Valentine - April 22, 2025Billionaire Harlan Crow is associated with groups that support cuts to Social Security
By Jesse Valentine - April 21, 2025Allie Phillips could have died carrying her unviable fetus. She fought back by running for office & finally vowed not let lawmakers kill her dream of being a mom. Her story:
By Bonnie Fuller - April 21, 2025The financial firm says an increase in manufacturing jobs would likely be offset by massive losses in other sectors.
By Jesse Valentine - April 17, 2025Kilmar Abrego Garcia had been in the country for 14 years and had protected status when ICE agents arrested him on March 15.
By Jesse Valentine - April 16, 2025Attorney General Jeff Jacskon was elected with 52% of the vote.
By Jesse Valentine - April 11, 2025Retirement savings plans have lost significant value as a result of Trump’s trade war.
By Jesse Valentine - April 09, 2025Trump’s international tariff plan has created chaos for global markets and supply chains.
By Jesse Valentine - April 08, 2025Democrats are calling for acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek to resign.
By Jesse Valentine - April 03, 2025The repeal was co-sponsored by North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis
By Jesse Valentine - April 03, 2025Samantha Casiano, an east Texas mother of four, tells her story to COURIER Texas writer Bonnie Fuller.
By Bonnie Fuller - March 28, 2025Republicans in the state legislature have already introduced more bills seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol.
By Bonnie Fuller - March 28, 2025Trump promised to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 24 hours and secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
By Jesse Valentine - March 28, 2025Governors in New Hampshire and Nevada are campaigning as champions of education while backing cuts to public schools.
By Jesse Valentine - March 26, 2025Republicans in North Carolina changed election laws to try to rig the state Supreme Court in their favor. It might not work out the way they planned.
By Matthew Chapman - July 19, 2018Scott Wagner, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, claims he does not agree with the views of a radical cult, but he was caught on tape telling them he does.
By Matthew Chapman - July 12, 2018Virginia Rep. Dave Brat is all too willing to help Republicans defend Rep. Jim Jordan even as the number of athletes coming out against Jordan grows.
By Matthew Chapman - July 11, 2018Republican Rep. Scott Taylor refuses to condemn his party’s openly racist Senate nominee because he doesn’t ‘give a sh-t.’
By Matthew Chapman - July 09, 2018Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner tied his tongue in knots when asked whether voters should back a Democrat over a literal Nazi running for Congress in his state.
By Matthew Chapman - July 05, 2018California Republican John Fitzgerald has been appearing on neo-Nazi podcasts and denying the Holocaust.
By Matthew Chapman - July 05, 2018Missouri Republican Josh Hawley was paid by a group that wants to sterilize trans people and criminalize homosexuality.
By Matthew Chapman - July 02, 2018Republican candidate Russell Walker has stated “God is a racist and a white supremacist” and Jewish people “descend from Satan.”
By Matthew Chapman - June 28, 2018The young progressive champion defied the odds, defeated the fourth most powerful Democrat in the House, and will almost certainly go on to win in November.
By Matthew Chapman - June 27, 2018Seth Grossman is a national humiliation for the Republican Party. But they are refusing to address it.
By Matthew Chapman - June 26, 2018Decorated Air Force veteran MJ Hegar is running for Congress, and she’s out with a powerful new ad some are calling ‘the best political ad anyone’s ever seen.’
By Matthew Chapman - June 25, 2018The House farm bill would kick families off nutritional assistance, while giving subsidies to billionaires. Every House Republican running for Senate voted to pass it.
By Matthew Chapman - June 22, 2018New Jersey House candidate Seth Grossman previously called diversity ‘a bunch of crap’ and ‘un-American.’ This week, he elaborated on its dangers.
By Matthew Chapman - June 21, 2018Rep. Kevin Cramer thinks people are being melodramatic about kids in cages.
By Matthew Chapman - June 21, 2018Michael Grimm, the ex-con running for his old congressional seat, is okay with ripping children from their families.
By Matthew Chapman - June 20, 2018Kelli Ward argued that it’s fine to separate children from their parents because ‘bad people’ exist.
By Matthew Chapman - June 19, 2018Wisconsin Republican Leah Vukmir has a new ad of a threatening voicemail she received. Except she didn’t — it’s a dramatization.
By Matthew Chapman - June 18, 2018Even some Republicans object to Trump’s policy of ripping children away from their families — but not Pennsylvania Senate nominee Lou Barletta. He’s just fine with it.
By Matthew Chapman - June 18, 2018Lou Barletta and Scott Wagner are totally devoted to Trump. They are also down badly in the polls.
By Matthew Chapman - June 14, 2018Wisconsin’s Republican governor refused to call special elections until three courts ordered him to. This is why.
By Matthew Chapman - June 13, 2018The notoriously scandal-plagued Appalachian Trail-hiking Rep. Mark Sanford is out. And now his South Carolina seat could be up for grabs.
By Matthew Chapman - June 13, 2018Corey Stewart had ties to an overt white nationalist. Virginia Republicans nominated him anyway.
By Matthew Chapman - June 12, 2018GOP Senate candidates Josh Hawley and Patrick Morrisey want to wipe out one of Obamacare’s most popular provisions.
By Matthew Chapman - June 08, 2018Republicans had hoped to lock out Democrats from key races in the California primaries, but they failed — and now the chance for Democrats to retake the House is that much stronger.
By Matthew Chapman - June 06, 2018New Mexico Democrat Deb Haaland is hoping to make history in November.
By Matthew Chapman - June 06, 2018Lauren Arthur is the 42nd Democrat this cycle to win a red seat in a special election.
By Matthew Chapman - June 05, 2018Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is not used to competitive elections. But her embrace of Trump has put her in danger.
By Matthew Chapman - June 05, 2018Virginia Senate candidate Corey Stewart told white nationalist Paul Nehlen ‘I can’t tell you how much I was inspired by you’ in a video posted to his personal YouTube account.
By Matthew Chapman - June 04, 2018Republican Rep. David Schweikert vowed to return ‘fiscal sanity’ to Washington. Now his office faces an ethics investigation for misuse of taxpayer and campaign money.
By Matthew Chapman - June 01, 2018George Allen’s endorsement didn’t work for Ed Gillespie. But Rep. Barbara Comstock apparently hopes it will work for her.
By Matthew Chapman - May 30, 2018