Tommy Christopher
Freelance Political Writer
Former White House correspondent and politics reporter for AOL, The Daily Banter, and Mediaite, and a longtime liberal journalist and commentator. Follow Tommy on Twitter @Tommyxtopher.
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, 2023Health care was by far the top issue for voters this year. It doomed the GOP.
By Tommy Christopher - November 09, 2018Even Fox News admits Trump’s latest attempt to obstruct the Mueller probe is illegal.
By Tommy Christopher - November 08, 2018Democrat Tim Kaine sent Trump-endorsed racist Corey Stewart packing early on election night.
By Tommy Christopher - November 06, 2018Trump falsely claimed he didn’t know his own Justice Department was supporting a plot to end pre-existing conditions protections, which would once again let health insurance companies overcharge or deny coverage to sick people.
By Tommy Christopher - November 05, 2018When Republicans voted to gut protections for people with pre-existing conditions, Martha McSally cheered, ‘Let’s get this f–king thing done!’
By Tommy Christopher - November 04, 2018Trump promised to introduce a new tax cut before the election — but the bill didn’t exist, and Congress wouldn’t have been around to pass it if it did.
By Tommy Christopher - November 04, 2018Ronna McDaniel stumbled badly defending Trump’s racist and false ad.
By Tommy Christopher - November 04, 2018Steve Chabot will do anything Trump wants, including shredding the U.S. Constitution.
By Tommy Christopher - November 02, 2018Trump’s chief economic adviser says there shouldn’t even be a minimum wage.
By Tommy Christopher - November 02, 2018One of Nunes’ fed-up constituents absolutely shredded the Republican congressman in a letter to his hometown paper.
By Tommy Christopher - November 01, 2018Steve Chabot doesn’t respect Ohio voters enough to tell them the truth about his record.
By Tommy Christopher - October 31, 2018Just like Trump, Nunes continued to whip up hatred of the media after last week’s attempted bombings.
By Tommy Christopher - October 31, 2018Ryan Zinke reminds America where the Trump administration really stands on white supremacist treason.
By Tommy Christopher - October 31, 2018It looks like Trump’s attacks are too much even for two of his favorite Fox News hosts.
By Tommy Christopher - October 30, 2018Rep. Steve Chabot defends a despicable vote with an even more despicable explanation.
By Tommy Christopher - October 30, 2018A vote for Devin Nunes is a vote for the dark side.
By Tommy Christopher - October 29, 2018First the Muslim ban — and now this.
By Tommy Christopher - October 29, 2018Nothing will stop Trump from inciting hatred — not even a week of full-blown domestic terrorism.
By Tommy Christopher - October 28, 2018The hatred that fueled the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting comes straight from the top.
By Tommy Christopher - October 28, 2018Chris Wallace made Kirstjen Nielsen answer for Trump’s racist fear-mongering.
By Tommy Christopher - October 28, 2018Steve Chabot went all-in on Trump-style xenophobia.
By Tommy Christopher - October 26, 2018Voters in Devin Nunes’ district see right through him.
By Tommy Christopher - October 26, 2018Trump has spent literally his entire political career encouraging political violence.
By Tommy Christopher - October 25, 2018Even when his constituents manage to find him, Devin Nunes runs.
By Tommy Christopher - October 25, 2018Trump couldn’t wait more than a few hours to start attacking the victims.
By Tommy Christopher - October 24, 2018Republican Rep. Steve Chabot is trying to run away from his record of gutting health care — but Democrat Aftab Pureval won’t let him.
By Tommy Christopher - October 24, 2018Trump loves to attack Democrats by name, but he won’t say their names when someone’s trying to kill them.
By Tommy Christopher - October 24, 2018Sadly, it has come to this.
By Tommy Christopher - October 24, 2018Devin Nunes has been dodging constituents for years, and they’re noticing.
By Tommy Christopher - October 23, 2018He’s just making it up as he goes, and we all know it.
By Tommy Christopher - October 23, 2018