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Lombardo’s involvement in downballot races was unusual for a sitting governor.
By Jesse Valentine - December 12, 2024
Several of Trump’s cabinet picks have worked to undermine workers’ rights.
By Jesse Valentine - November 26, 2024
Ken Paxton has been accused of corruption, bribery, and self-dealing
By Jesse Valentine - November 13, 2024
Every seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives is up for election this year.
By Jesse Valentine - November 04, 2024
The Michigan Supreme Court overturned a Republican attempt to gut a paid sick leave law.
By Jesse Valentine - November 01, 2024
I was 17 when I found out that I was pregnant and was already about 8 weeks along. I was so overwhelmed because I had no idea of what my options were going to be, and I was afraid. I was well aware that I wouldn’t be able to access an abortion in Texas. The […]
By Bonnie Fuller - October 31, 2024
Hogan refused to sign a state law that banned price gouging by drugmakers.
By Jesse Valentine - October 30, 2024
Chavez-DeRemer represents Oregon’s 5th district despite living in District 3.
By Jesse Valentine - October 30, 2024
More than half of Ohio’s child care funding comes from a federal program.
By Jesse Valentine - October 30, 2024
Collins has a history of incendiary and offensive social media posts.
By Jesse Valentine - October 28, 2024
The partisan split in the Michigan House of Representatives will be decided in the Nov. 5 election.
By Jesse Valentine - October 28, 2024
Ayotte voted on multiple occasions to cut financial aid for low-income students.
By Jesse Valentine - October 23, 2024
Some pro-voucher lawmakers pushed for the Bible to be taught in elementary schools.
By Jesse Valentine - October 23, 2024
Critics of school choice say it diverts funds away from public schools to private institutions.
By Jesse Valentine - October 22, 2024
Beckwith pledged to defund Planned Parenthood “not only in Indiana, but across the country.”
By Jesse Valentine - October 16, 2024
Scott is being accused of using military members for political gain.
By Jesse Valentine - October 15, 2024
Bishop opposed a bill that could’ve helped missing person investigations in his own district.
By Jesse Valentine - October 08, 2024
Bresnahan’s net worth is estimated to be up to $69 million.
By Jesse Valentine - October 07, 2024
Senate candidate’s claims of tapes being ‘chopped’ debunked
By Darrell Ehrlick, Daily Montanan - October 04, 2024
The groups claim Rosen is guilty of insider trading, an offense she has never committed or been investigated for.
By Jesse Valentine - October 04, 2024
Moreno was appointed to the MetroHealth board by a CEO who was later fired for malfeasance.
By Jesse Valentine - October 01, 2024
Doctors have warned that American women will die as a result of Trump's state abortion bans - now they have.
By Bonnie Fuller - September 23, 2024
Dave McCormick has described Iran as “our sworn enemy” and the “underwriter of terror across the Middle East.”
By Jesse Valentine - September 18, 2024
More than 700,000 veterans in Virginia could lose their health insurance under the plan.
By Jesse Valentine - September 18, 2024
Hovde has touted his work with assisted living facilities as an asset on the campaign trail.
By Jesse Valentine - September 18, 2024
Montanas could vote to add a right to abortion access to their state constitution.
By Jesse Valentine - September 13, 2024
Ayotte voted at least nine times to repeal Obamacare
By Jesse Valentine - September 04, 2024
Buckhout said President Joe Biden should be impeached for not being tougher on China.
By Jesse Valentine - August 23, 2024
Scott travels almost exclusively on a private jet.
By Jesse Valentine - August 21, 2024
Moreno says extending Trump’s tax cuts would lessen the national debt. It won’t.
By Jesse Valentine - August 21, 2024
In July, 3,793 Mainers registered to vote, which was higher than every month since the 2023 November election.
By Emma Davis, Maine Morning Star - August 14, 2024
Disinformation about foreign investments has engulfed the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania.
By Jesse Valentine - August 14, 2024
Hovde is running for the U.S. Senate on a platform that emphasizes economic opportunity.
By Jesse Valentine - August 13, 2024
As Secretary of the Interior, Zinke spent $12,000 on a private jet from Las Vegas to Montana.
By Jesse Valentine - August 12, 2024
Bresnahan has contributed thousands of dollars to anti-abortion candidates
By Jesse Valentine - August 06, 2024
Gianforte criticized the Biden administration for giving temporary work status to Venezuelan asylum seekers.
By Jesse Valentine - August 05, 2024
Calvert has cast several votes seeking to curtail abortion access throughout his 30 years in Congress.
By Jesse Valentine - July 29, 2024
Ayotte has endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign
By Jesse Valentine - July 26, 2024
Former Pres. Donald Trump needs to discard his storied penchant for racist and sexist tropes and nicknames if he wants to win over independent voters in his likely race against Vice Pres. Kamala Harris, say political experts in Nevada, one of a handful of battleground states.
By Dana Gentry, Nevada Current - July 24, 2024
Cruz’s Democratic opponent says he is the “architect” of the state’s prohibitive abortion laws.
By Jesse Valentine - July 23, 2024
Bridger Aerospace is being sued by two former employees for breach of contract.
By Jesse Valentine - July 22, 2024
Brown’s race for U.S. Senate could decide which party controls congress in 2025.
By Jesse Valentine - July 09, 2024
Domenici is one of several Republican U.S. Senate candidates who has been scrutinized for owning properties in multiple states.
By Jesse Valentine - July 08, 2024
Robinson said feminism has created a generation of weak minded men.
By Jesse Valentine - July 03, 2024
Ayotte has repeatedly backed reforms to Medicare and Social Security that would result in less Americans getting the support they need.
By Jesse Valentine - July 02, 2024
Paxton’s close relationship with the Texas Public Policy Foundation dates back to 2015.
By Jesse Valentine - June 24, 2024
Cruz’s podcast is the subject of an FEC complaint claiming its ad revenue structure violated campaign finance law
By Jesse Valentine - June 11, 2024
Lake’s budget proposal could imperil border security, which Lake often cites as one of her top priorities.
By Jesse Valentine - June 10, 2024
Cao supported a claim that diversity and inclusion initiatives caused the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
By Jesse Valentine - June 06, 2024
Moreno is one of multiple Republican U.S. Senate candidates to exaggerate their background.
By Jesse Valentine - May 24, 2024
Voters in several states will likely have the chance to reverse their states’ abortion bans this November — but the election results could come too late for clinics that have been forced to scale back or even shut down while those bans were in effect.
By Chabeli Carrazana and Shefali Luthra - May 22, 2024
When Ayotte worked with Caterpillar Inc. the company offshored over 2,000 jobs.
By Jesse Valentine - May 21, 2024
Medical residencies are key for getting doctors to practice in states, and declines can contribute to shortages.
By Alander Rocha, Alabama Reflector - May 21, 2024
Texas Rep. Monica De La Cruz celebrated a police funding initiative that her caucus now wants to eliminate.
By Jesse Valentine - May 16, 2024
Robinson said science education should be taken out of elementary schools
By Jesse Valentine - May 16, 2024
The Republic Pregnancy Resource Center website provides step-by-step directions from local middle and high schools to their address.
By Jesse Valentine - May 14, 2024
Brown has called for abolishing the U.S. Department of Education.
By Jesse Valentine - May 09, 2024
Luna supports abortions bans with no exceptions for rape
By Jesse Valentine - May 07, 2024
Donald Trump is planning to release more details in the weeks ahead about how his administration would regulate access to medication abortion, according to comments he made during a lengthy interview with Time magazine published Tuesday.
By Jennifer Shutt, States Newsroom - April 30, 2024
Dobson is the Republican candidate in what will be one of the most-watched House races of 2024.
By Jesse Valentine - April 30, 2024
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s claim to not know about the millions an Akron utility spent supporting his 2018 campaign for governor simply isn’t credible, an Ohio political scientist said in a recent interview. A spokesperson for DeWine pushed back. FirstEnergy provided that support, then spent more than $60 million to pass and protect a $1.3 billion ratepayer-financed […]
By Marty Schladen, Ohio Capital Journal - April 29, 2024
Hate crimes in the United States rose from 2022 to 2023.
By Jesse Valentine - April 15, 2024
Cao is a former U.S Navy captain.
By Jesse Valentine - March 29, 2024
Kiggans has flirted with baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
By Jesse Valentine - March 08, 2024
Ohio voted to protect abortion rights. GOP senate candidate Bernie Moreno doesn't care.
By Jesse Valentine - March 07, 2024
Syngenta AG owns approximately 1500 acres of U.S farmland.
By Jesse Valentine - March 04, 2024
Hovde is running for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin despite primarily residing in California.
By Jesse Valentine - February 26, 2024
McCormick says we need leaders with the moral clarity to condemn antisemitism.
By Jesse Valentine - February 09, 2024
Of 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Gunter has repeatedly referred to Brown as “Scam Brown”
By Jesse Valentine - January 17, 2024
The 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, 2024
Health 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, 2024
Five people died on January 6, 2021 – including a police officer who was bludgeoned to death.
By Jesse Valentine - January 05, 2024
On 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, 2024
Most Americans believe wealthy individuals and big corporations don’t pay their fair share in taxes.
By Jesse Valentine - December 22, 2023
Even the Republican senator's home county gave Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear a larger share of the vote than four years earlier.
By - December 15, 2023
Republicans Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton have taken thousands of dollars in donations from chemical companies and their affiliated PACs.
By Jesse Valentine - December 08, 2023
Eric 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, 2023
A 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, 2023
Both 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, 2023
Millions of Texas families’ health and well-being would be jeopardized if the legislation were repealed.
By Jesse Valentine - December 04, 2023
More than 3 million Floridians will lose their health insurance if Scott and Trump succeed.
By Jesse Valentine - November 30, 2023
Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.
By Jesse Valentine - November 06, 2023
The Republican gubernatorial nominee also broke his promises to make the office more frugal.
By Jesse Valentine - November 03, 2023
It 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, 2023
Amid a growing chorus of Democrats calling for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) to recuse himself from the Trump/Russia investigation, including House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), even Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is making a strong case against Nunes. In an interview with The Today […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 28, 2017
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave Judge Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s pick to fill the Supreme Court seat that Republicans stole from President Obama, the grilling of his life last week. The Democrats exposed Gorsuch’s history of cruel and, at times, absurd rulings, and the millions in dark money that has supported his nomination. […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 28, 2017
On the heels of Donald Trump’s failure to repeal Obamacare, Democrats are already formulating a strategy to capitalize on Trump’s ostensible overtures for bipartisanship. Whether those overtures are genuine or not, they provide Democrats with an opportunity to pressure Trump and the Republicans to improve the current health care system, rather than trying to make […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 27, 2017
Donald Trump has always enjoyed a dismally low bar for expectations, but even by that measure, the praise he is receiving for his reaction to the failure of the Republican health care repeal plan is jaw-dropping. In the moments following the statement, Trump’s performance was hailed as “disciplined” and “calm” by the corporate media. Even […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 27, 2017
Moments after the failure of the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare on Friday, Donald Trump took to the television cameras for a repetitive and vindictive rant about the defeat. In a predictable move, Trump laid the blame for the bill’s failure squarely at the feet of the Democrats, specifically House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 27, 2017
The House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian election interference exploded like a bomb this week when FBI Director James Comey revealed that his agency has been investigating possible “coordination” between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russians since July. Attempts by Republicans to deflect and defend Trump similarly blew up in their faces, notably with House Intelligence […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 26, 2017
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) is in a heap of trouble following the defeat of the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare. And although Donald Trump initially blamed this humiliation on Democrats, his subsequent actions have seemed belie that, in a notably pointed way. Trump tweeted a message directing his followers to a Fox News […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 26, 2017
When the Affordable Care Act was finally passed in 2010, it was done through a process called “reconciliation,” which allows a bill to overcome a Senate filibuster by only requiring a simple 51-vote majority, but only if the bill is restricted to budgetary matters. This became necessary when Scott Brown won the seat vacated by […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 24, 2017
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) broke with every longstanding norm, and possibly with the law, when he briefed Donald Trump in private and held two press conferences, without briefing his own committee, in a failed attempt to “vindicate” Trump’s wiretapping lie about President Obama. Trump has been under investigation for possible “coordination” between his […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 24, 2017
One of the key obstacles to the success of the Affordable Care Act was the sheer volume of lies that were fed to the American about the bill, often abetted by the press. This time around, though, those lies have failed to weaken support for the now-popular Obamacare, or to garner any support for the […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 23, 2017
In their desperation to gain votes for their unpopular plan to repeal Obamacare, House Republicans inserted a raft of “improvements” to the bill, including one that could harm up to 7 million veterans by making them ineligible for the bill’s tax credits. Former Policy Advisor for the House Republican Conference under Chairman Mike Pence Chris Jacobs […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 23, 2017
This week has seen the crisis surrounding Donald Trump’s Russia ties reach a progressively hotter fever pitch. After FBI Director James Comey confirmed that his agency has been investigating “coordination between” the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to tilt the election in Trump’s favor, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) committed what may amount to […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 23, 2017
The Republican plan to repeal Obamacare has been a miserable failure with the public, and a public relations disaster for Republicans. But even among Republican lawmakers who have long dreamed of kicking Americans off health care, the plan cannot make any headway. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) has scheduled a Thursday vote on the […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 22, 2017
After FBI Director James Comey revealed that Donald Trump is under investigation for possible coordination with the Russian government, and that he had employed a National Security Advisor who failed to register as an agent of a foreign government, the press is rightly concerned that yet more foreign influences are embedded in Trump’s White House. […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 22, 2017
Things took a dramatic turn at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch, the nominee for the Supreme Court seat that was stolen from President Barack Obama, and given to a man who is under FBI investigation. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) was recounting Gorsuch’s record of siding against disabled children, […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 22, 2017
The horrific story of a Maryland teenager who was raped in a school restroom is now being exploited by the Trump White House in order to further the demonization of immigrants that Donald Trump based his candidacy on when he declared Mexicans to be “rapists” in his announcement speech. When asked about the story, White […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 22, 2017
Donald Trump and the Republicans have engaged in a progressively more disastrous campaign to try to sell their plan to repeal Obamacare, and despite some desperate 11th-hour revisions, will likely fail to pass it through the House of Representatives on Thursday. Part of that effort has involved rather absurd attempts to spin their way out […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 22, 2017
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) has decided to push a vote on the Republicans’ health care repeal plan for Thursday, but even with some desperate 11th-hour changes, the plan is still unlikely to pass. That desperation took shape on the eve of the scheduled vote when House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Pete Sessions […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 22, 2017
During his first week in office, Donald Trump scrapped a reported executive order that would have overturned President Obama’s ban on torture. It looks like he may want to continue staying away from that policy change. At the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made a […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 21, 2017
After a disastrous political day that saw FBI Director James Comey confirming an ongoing investigation into Trump campaign “coordination” with Russia and shooting down Trump’s lie about President Obama, Donald Trump took solace in a crowd of supporters at a “Make America Great Again” campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky. There was one major difference, however, […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 21, 2017
Even after FBI Director James Comey testified that his agency and the Department of Justice “looked carefully” at Donald Trump’s lie — that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower — and found no evidence to support it, the White House still refuses to withdraw the claim, and most Republicans still won’t call on Trump to apologize. Prior […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 21, 2017
Republicans seem to be competing to see who can be the most heartless these days, but Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is off to an early lead. After refusing to reassure Americans that they would not lose their health care under repeal, and explaining to a cancer patient how kicking him off Medicaid […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 20, 2017
There were several bombshells during the House Intelligence Committee’s hearing on the “Russian Active Measures Investigation,” the most crucial of which was FBI Director James Comey’s confirmation of an ongoing investigation into “any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 20, 2017
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) previewed the hearing at which FBI Director James Comey is testifying Monday by telling Meet the Press’ Chuck Todd that there is “circumstantial evidence of collusion” between Donald Trump and Russia. At the opening of the hearing, Schiff read much of that evidence into the record, including this […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 20, 2017
Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a budget blueprint that makes cruel and dangerous cuts to discretionary federal spending, in favor of unnecessary and wasteful increases in defense and Homeland Security spending. Soon after, Trump once again jetted off to his Mar-a-Lago resort for the weekend, which reminded many of an explicit promise that Trump made during the […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 19, 2017
The investigation into Donald Trump and his associates’ possible collusion with Russia continues to heat up. This week, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) raised eyebrows when he told reporters that it was “very possible” Donald Trump had been directly swept up in intelligence community surveillance. Shortly thereafter, members of the Senate Intelligence […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 19, 2017
Shortly after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told reporters that it was “very possible” Donald Trump had been directly swept up in intelligence community surveillance, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee emerged from their own classified briefing with FBI Director James Comey looking visibly shaken. Now, Nunes has ratcheted up the intrigue, with an […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 19, 2017
Representative Steve King (R-IA) drew scant condemnation from Republicans with this tweet about the need to “restore our civilization,” which he said cannot be done with “somebody else’s babies”: Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO — Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017 The […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 18, 2017
Republicans and the Trump administration are quickly developing a disturbing reputation for siding against cancer patients. That pattern was made even more starkly clear as family members of a deceased cancer patient spoke out against Judge Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy that was stolen from President Obama. The late Grace […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 18, 2017
Donald Trump set the tone for his administration by attacking a reporter during his first press conference as president-elect, and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has embodied Trump’s bullying of the free press so effectively that he has become a hit Saturday Night Live character. Spicer’s first appearance in the briefing room literally consisted of […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 17, 2017