New NC GOP chair flirts with bogus stolen election conspiracies
Simmons predecessor was a staunch 2020 election denier
By Jesse Valentine - April 19, 2024Local
‘I wish, as a man, I didn’t have to make this decision. I wish women could make this decision,’ Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) said during a debate on Oct. 6.
By Emily Singer - October 07, 2022The Florida Republican senator also skipped a key vote on a stopgap bill that funded emergency management and flood insurance.
By Josh Israel - October 07, 2022Maria Syms removed ‘election integrity’ from her website, but continues to support prominent election deniers
By Emily Singer - October 07, 2022The false claim was based on conservatives taking the vice president’s comments about the Biden administration’s racial injustice policy out of context.
By Oliver Willis - October 07, 2022Republican incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has a long record of opposition to abortion rights.
By Kaishi Chhabra - October 07, 2022The Arizona Republican nominee has pushed false conspiracy theories about the last election while fighting to make it harder to participate in future ones.
By Josh Israel - October 07, 2022Ohio Republican Senate nominee J.D. Vance personally profits from oil and gas companies and has broken his promise not to take their campaign donations.
By Josh Israel - October 06, 2022Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers had called the special legislative session for Oct. 4 to discuss establishing a ballot initiative process in the state, which could be used to let residents vote on the state’s abortion law.
By Kaishi Chhabra - October 06, 2022The veterans’ group’s leader wrote in 2016 that nonpartisanship is a ‘mandate.’
By Adrian Cole - October 06, 2022Republican candidates have scrubbed their websites of hardline anti-abortion rhetoric and changed their stances on exceptions ahead of the general election.
By Nick Vachon - October 06, 2022Hurricane Ian highlights the double standard on federal aid as Florida begins to rebuild.
By Adrian Cole - October 05, 2022The $280 billion law includes $52 billion to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
By Oliver Willis - October 05, 2022At least four GOP politicians have had their hypocrisy on abortion exposed.
By Emily Singer - October 04, 2022Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker has been accused of funding a former girlfriend’s abortion in 2009.
By Josh Israel - October 04, 2022Oz’s opposition to recreational marijuana is out of step with over two-thirds of Pennsylvanians who support legalization
By Emily Singer - October 04, 2022The New Hampshire Republican’s senior adviser Rick Wiley represented a partially state-owned Chinese telecommunications company.
By Josh Israel - October 04, 2022The ad features Kristine Wright, who says ‘crazy inflation forced’ her to ‘shut down’ her liposuction business. But the studio is still advertising its services and running October promotions.
By Emily Singer - October 03, 2022‘There’s a lot of nonsense being taught in the schools. And you want to add pre-K to it?’ Republican gubernatorial nominee Heidi Ganahl said.
By Emily Singer - October 03, 2022Republican nominee for Kansas governor Derek Schmidt, the state’s longest-serving attorney general, has troubling ties to the fiscally disastrous governorship of Sam Brownback and faces a popular Democratic incumbent in November.
By Adrian Cole - October 03, 2022Oil and gas companies do not need to pass their tax burden on to New Hampshire consumers, contrary to a new ad’s claims.
By Josh Israel - September 30, 2022Abraham Hamadeh said he would enforce the state’s total ban on abortion at a time when most voters believe it should be legal to some degree.
By Emily Singer - September 30, 2022A Breitbart story amplified by Sen. Marco Rubio has launched a new wave of vitriol against immigrants, painting them as criminals.
By Adrian Cole - September 30, 2022President Joe Biden issued a disaster declaration for Florida a day after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ request despite DeSantis’ repeated attacks on the administration.
By Oliver Willis - September 30, 2022Marilyn Zayas, an IT manager turned lawyer turned appellate court judge, is seeking to unseat Pat DeWine, a Republican and the son of Ohio’s current governor, from the Ohio Supreme Court.
By Matt Cohen - September 30, 2022The Wisconsin Republican has used his official website and social media accounts to smear his Democratic opponent.
By Josh Israel - September 29, 2022The Nevada Republican took the legal maximum from Curtis Debord, who was indicted for illegal weapons trafficking in the late 1990s.
By Josh Israel - September 29, 2022The Ohio Republican was punished for driving drunk on a U.S. air base in Japan in 2001, military records show.
By Associated Press - September 29, 2022‘Students will not stand to become politicized and will not stand to become part of the governor’s agenda or his next campaign,’ one organizer said.
By Nick Vachon - September 28, 2022‘That wasn’t a joke,’ the Republican nominee for Michigan governor told a crowd at an event alongside Kellyanne Conway in defense of remarks she made about Whitmer.
By Adrian Cole - September 28, 2022Joe Lombardo wants to create a program of education saving accounts that experts say could take hundreds of millions of dollars from already underfunded Nevada public school systems.
By Emily Singer - September 28, 2022