Matthew Chapman
National Political Writer
Video game designer and science fiction author from Texas. Can be found on Twitter @fawfulfan.
Gov. Eric Greitens is blowing up the Republican Party in Missouri — and it could not be better timing for Sen. Claire McCaskill.
By Matthew Chapman - May 29, 2018Gina Ortiz Jones will face off against GOP Rep. Will Hurd in a crucial Texas House race.
By Matthew Chapman - May 23, 2018Stacey Abrams is poised to make national history this November.
By Matthew Chapman - May 22, 2018Backlash forced Florida Republican congressional candidate John Ward to backpedal his comment that Puerto Rican hurricane survivors shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
By Matthew Chapman - May 22, 2018Hirsh Singh reportedly promised the New Jersey GOP he would fund his own campaign with $2 million. But he has less than $120,000 and lives with his dad.
By Matthew Chapman - May 21, 2018Don Blankenship is back, and he plans to be Republicans’ worst nightmare.
By Matthew Chapman - May 21, 2018Republican Rep. Jason Lewis wants you to attend his town halls — provided he approves of you.
By Matthew Chapman - May 19, 2018Georgia Republican Michael Williams rolled out a ‘deportation bus’ plastered with racist messages for his gubernatorial campaign. It has not gone well for him.
By Matthew Chapman - May 18, 2018Trump wanted Lou Barletta to be the GOP Senate nominee in Pennsylvania. He should be careful what he wishes for.
By Matthew Chapman - May 17, 2018Republican candidate Leah Vukmir continues to face fallout for calling Sen. Tammy Baldwin a terrorist.
By Matthew Chapman - May 16, 2018Susan Ellis Wild defeated the anti-choice, anti-immigrant Trump-loving John Morganelli to run for Congress in the state with the largest all-male delegation.
By Matthew Chapman - May 16, 2018Rep. Marsha Blackburn blasted her Democratic opponent for legalizing driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. But it was actually done by her state’s Republican governor — who is trying to get her elected.
By Matthew Chapman - May 15, 2018Once again, Trump is on his way to deep red country to bail out a struggling Republican.
By Matthew Chapman - May 15, 2018Some Republicans in Congress admitted they were trying to pass their tax scam to ensure their billionaire donors would keep the cash flowing. Now, they’ve even failed at that.
By Matthew Chapman - May 14, 2018Wisconsin Republican Leah Vukmir released a disgusting attack on Sen. Tammy Baldwin — and the state GOP just gave her its endorsement.
By Matthew Chapman - May 14, 2018Kris Kobach was held in contempt by a federal judge for misleading his state’s voters. He’s still misleading them.
By Matthew Chapman - May 11, 2018A Republican challenging Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin is accusing her of wanting to give terrorists ‘hugs and safe spaces.’
By Matthew Chapman - May 10, 2018If Iowa Rep. Rod Blum expected to be greeted with adoring crowds for cutting taxes for corporations and millionaires, he was sorely mistaken.
By Matthew Chapman - May 09, 2018After Tuesday’s primary, the conditions are ripe for Dan McCready to win North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.
By Matthew Chapman - May 09, 2018Indiana Republican Senate candidate Mike Braun has a lot of baggage, to put it mildly.
By Matthew Chapman - May 08, 2018On the eve of the primary, West Virginia’s most bombastic candidate, U.S. Senate hopeful Don Blankenship, has turned on the man he is emulating.
By Matthew Chapman - May 07, 2018Trump has weighed in on the West Virginia Senate race, in the most awkward way imaginable.
By Matthew Chapman - May 07, 2018Don Blankenship can’t stop saying racist things.
By Matthew Chapman - May 04, 2018Convicted criminal and GOP Senate candidate Don Blankenship insisted that his blatantly racist slur against Asians was definitely not racist.
By Matthew Chapman - May 02, 2018Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp ran a creepy and irresponsible ad in which he pointed a firearm at a teenage boy. And people are angry about it.
By Matthew Chapman - May 01, 2018State Sen. Guy Reschenthaler, running for Pennsylvania’s 14th Congressional District, is struggling to explain his extensive involvement with an overt racist.
By Matthew Chapman - May 01, 2018Kris Kobach once spearheaded the GOP’s plot to block the vote, with Trump’s support. Now, after a devastating court defeat, his own party has started to turn on him.
By Matthew Chapman - April 30, 2018Rep. Mo Brooks has an absurd theory about why so many of his fellow Republicans are retiring: to avoid being assassinated by supposedly violent ‘leftists.’
By Matthew Chapman - April 27, 2018Polling and election forecasting experts show numerous House seats that were once solidly red are now in play — all over the country.
By Matthew Chapman - April 26, 2018Republicans desperately dumped a ton of money into the Arizona race, and the seat still swung 32 points toward Democrats.
By Matthew Chapman - April 25, 2018