Matthew Chapman
National Political Writer
Video game designer and science fiction author from Texas. Can be found on Twitter @fawfulfan.
Hate crimes in the United States rose from 2022 to 2023.
By Jesse Valentine - April 15, 2024Cao is a former U.S Navy captain.
By Jesse Valentine - March 29, 2024Kiggans has flirted with baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
By Jesse Valentine - March 08, 2024Ohio voted to protect abortion rights. GOP senate candidate Bernie Moreno doesn't care.
By Jesse Valentine - March 07, 2024Syngenta AG owns approximately 1500 acres of U.S farmland.
By Jesse Valentine - March 04, 2024Hovde is running for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin despite primarily residing in California.
By Jesse Valentine - February 26, 2024McCormick says we need leaders with the moral clarity to condemn antisemitism.
By Jesse Valentine - February 09, 2024Of the nearly dozen gun bills lawmakers will soon take up, one is particularly noteworthy because it’s backed by unlikely allies: mental health advocates and a pair of House members who’ve long been at opposite ends of firearm legislation.
By Annmarie Timmins, New Hampshire Bulletin - January 31, 2024The United Auto Workers of America endorsed the re-election of President Joe Biden Wednesday, just months after he became the first sitting U.S. president to walk a picket line with striking autoworkers in Michigan.
By Ashley Murray, States Newsroom - January 24, 2024Gunter has repeatedly referred to Brown as “Scam Brown”
By Jesse Valentine - January 17, 2024The state of Texas robbed Amanda Zurawski of her fertility and almost her life when it wouldn’t permit her an abortion so she’s gone to the state’s Supreme Court to change the law - “this is why I’m on earth”
By Bonnie Fuller - January 10, 2024Health care-focused organizations across the state are hopeful that the 2024 legislative session will be a year that reins in health costs and allows patients to have greater access to the care they need.
By Danielle J. Brown, Maryland Matters - January 08, 2024Five people died on January 6, 2021 – including a police officer who was bludgeoned to death.
By Jesse Valentine - January 05, 2024On Wednesday, the New Hampshire House passed a bill that would make registering to vote an online experience.
By Ethan DeWitt, New Hampshire Bulletin - January 04, 2024Most Americans believe wealthy individuals and big corporations don’t pay their fair share in taxes.
By Jesse Valentine - December 22, 2023Even the Republican senator's home county gave Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear a larger share of the vote than four years earlier.
By - December 15, 2023Republicans Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton have taken thousands of dollars in donations from chemical companies and their affiliated PACs.
By Jesse Valentine - December 08, 2023Eric Hovde's proposal is similar to Sen. Rick Scott's unpopular 2022 plan to make every American pay income taxes.
By Jesse Valentine - December 07, 2023A bipartisan package of bills in Michigan signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, creates specified criminal penalties for assaulting health care workers.
By Anna Liz Nichols, Michigan Advance - December 06, 2023Both former President Donald Trump and former U.S. Rep. George Santos have lied about their records and been accused of defrauding veterans.
By Jesse Valentine - December 05, 2023Millions of Texas families’ health and well-being would be jeopardized if the legislation were repealed.
By Jesse Valentine - December 04, 2023More than 3 million Floridians will lose their health insurance if Scott and Trump succeed.
By Jesse Valentine - November 30, 2023Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.
By Jesse Valentine - November 06, 2023The Republican gubernatorial nominee also broke his promises to make the office more frugal.
By Jesse Valentine - November 03, 2023It might not surprise Mississippians that The Cook Political Report, regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent elections experts, shifted their 2023 Mississippi governor’s race forecast on Monday in Democrat Brandon Presley’s direction.
By Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today - October 24, 2023Republicans 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