Matthew Chapman
National Political Writer
Video game designer and science fiction author from Texas. Can be found on Twitter @fawfulfan.
Secretly deleting resources from the HHS website is just another sneaky way the Trump administration is undermining women’s health and Obamacare.
By Matthew Chapman - April 02, 2018Rep. Mike Bishop is a reliable vote against gun control. He no longer seems proud of it.
By Matthew Chapman - March 30, 2018Republican candidate Debbie Lesko said the Stormy Daniels allegations should be investigated. Then she changed her mind.
By Matthew Chapman - March 30, 2018A new complaint from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse alleges Scott Pruitt takes his expensive government security detail on personal and family trips.
By Matthew Chapman - March 30, 2018Republicans realized their plan to take poor people’s health care away was actually expensive. So they want to pay for it by cutting welfare, too.
By Matthew Chapman - March 30, 2018The American people have the fired deputy FBI director’s back.
By Matthew Chapman - March 29, 2018In Wisconsin, the Republicans plan to stave off elections went down in flames.
By Matthew Chapman - March 29, 2018Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is at war with the courts over democracy. He is losing.
By Matthew Chapman - March 28, 2018Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker keeps trying to dodge elections he’s afraid he’ll lose — and judges keep telling him he can’t do that.
By Matthew Chapman - March 28, 2018Special counsel Mueller has told a court at least one member of Trump’s campaign was knowingly working with a former Russian spy.
By Matthew Chapman - March 28, 2018Women in the Senate are making sure the days of sweeping misconduct under the rug are over.
By Matthew Chapman - March 28, 2018Rep. Duncan Hunter has some explaining to do.
By Matthew Chapman - March 27, 2018Rep. Mia Love told the public she was open to gun control. Then she quietly assured a few of her supporters that she did not really mean it.
By Matthew Chapman - March 27, 2018The Trump administration is already facing one lawsuit, with more on the way, for trying to weaponize the 2020 census.
By Matthew Chapman - March 27, 2018So much for supporting the troops — Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported Miguel Perez, who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan.
By Matthew Chapman - March 26, 2018Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told his staffers that he doesn’t care about diversity. His long and racist history only proves that point.
By Matthew Chapman - March 26, 2018Democrats want a full investigation into Cambridge Analytica, the shady data-mining company that boosted Trump and the GOP.
By Matthew Chapman - March 26, 2018Matt Jones wants to take down Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
By Matthew Chapman - March 26, 2018Now that the court had ordered fair elections in Pennsylvania, Rep. Ryan Costello is too afraid to run for re-election.
By Matthew Chapman - March 26, 2018The RNC is throwing cash into the race for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District — a seat that should have been an easy win for Republicans.
By Matthew Chapman - March 24, 2018A judge ruled Gov. Scott Walker can’t refuse to hold special elections. Now his allies in the legislature are trying to change the law so that he can.
By Matthew Chapman - March 23, 2018White House Counsel Don McGahn plans to leave as soon as Trump finds someone to replace him.
By Matthew Chapman - March 23, 2018The NRA and their supporters have thrown insults and threats of all kinds at the teenagers driving the movement for gun control. But the students are still standing up, and they’re ready for more that 800 marches tomorrow.
By Matthew Chapman - March 23, 2018The Trump administration is trying to make it easy for employers to steal wages from workers.
By Matthew Chapman - March 22, 2018Kellyanne Conway doesn’t want to be Trump’s new communications director — but she may have little choice in the matter.
By Matthew Chapman - March 21, 2018Trump and his businesses are rife with conflicts of interest. And the Republican Party is in on it.
By Matthew Chapman - March 21, 2018Rep. Claudia Tenney apparently thinks there’s an evil conspiracy of liberal intelligence officials to blame for Ben Carson’s expensive office furniture.
By Matthew Chapman - March 21, 2018Nevadans are sick of Dean Heller choosing Trump over their own health.
By Matthew Chapman - March 21, 2018Trump’s long list of nominees for federal judgeships is very white and very male.
By Matthew Chapman - March 20, 2018Carl Nett, a Republican candidate for secretary of state in Kentucky, tossed off a casual threat of violence against a Democratic lawmaker over gun safety.
By Matthew Chapman - March 20, 2018