New NC GOP chair flirts with bogus stolen election conspiracies
Simmons predecessor was a staunch 2020 election denier
By Jesse Valentine - April 19, 2024Local
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made the comments at a ‘conservative activist summit’ in Atlanta, where he was campaigning for Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker.
By Josh Israel - August 30, 2022Multiple corporations are bringing production — and jobs — to the U.S. following policies championed by President Joe Biden.
By Oliver Willis - August 30, 2022Both Chuck Morse and Kevin Smith have attacked Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) for her role in obtaining relief funds they helped spend.
By Josh Israel - August 29, 2022Republican Gov. Mike DeWine is a defendant in three lawsuits challenging Ohio’s district maps.
By Matt Cohen - August 29, 2022News of the photo’s existence broke this weekend, with Democrats condemning them and far-right conservatives defending them.
By Associated Press - August 29, 2022The Arizona Republican Senate nominee has a long history of bigotry.
By Josh Israel - August 29, 202213 states so far have enacted “trigger” laws that outlaw most or any abortions, while North Dakota and several other states continue to try enacting similar policies.
By Associated Press - August 28, 2022Republican Jim Marchant has received donations from wealthy conspiracy theorists who insist that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.
By Christopher van Leeuwen - August 26, 2022Arkansas’ 2021 legislation outlawing gender-affirming care is just one of several anti-transgender laws around the country that courts have blocked or scrutinized.
By Associated Press - August 26, 2022Multiple organizations advocating for marginalized Americans and progressives called President Biden’s action ‘historic,’ ‘life-changing’ step for millions.
By Oliver Willis - August 26, 2022The Arizona Republican Senate nominee’s campaign website said he supported a ‘personhood’ amendment until Thursday. Now it doesn’t.
By Josh Israel - August 26, 2022‘It’s not a legitimate role of government to be involved in health care in any way,’ said New Hampshire GOP Senate candidate Bruce Fenton.
By Josh Israel - August 25, 2022Pete Arredondo, deemed in charge of the police response to the school shooting at Robb Elementary School where 21 people were killed, is the first officer to face consequences in the aftermath.
By Associated Press - August 25, 2022Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Charlie Crist says the struggle for the governor’s mansion this fall will be the ‘most consequential race in the history of our state.’
By Adrian Cole - August 24, 2022Lieutenant governor candidate Matt Birk’s 2018 comments opposing sexual ‘freedom’ are not the only controversial remarks he’s made about women or abortion.
By Emily Singer - August 24, 2022The Ulster County executive won a tight race in a swing district after putting abortion rights at the center of his campaign.
By Josh Israel - August 24, 2022Carl Paladino was endorsed and strongly supported by House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik despite his long public record of bigoted statements.
By Emily Singer - August 24, 2022Despite trying to distance himself from attempts to overturn the 2020 election, one person named on an invalid electoral ballot recently sent a fundraising email on Johnson’s behalf.
By Josh Israel - August 24, 2022Former President Donald Trump has endorsed gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon’s pick, Shane Hernandez, over Ralph Rebandt, who was beaten by Dixon in the Michigan Republican primary.
By Adrian Cole - August 24, 2022Gubernatorial candidates Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist were among those who condemned proposals by the governor and other Republicans to bus mostly Cuban migrants out of the Sunshine State.
By Adrian Cole - August 23, 2022Wisconsin Republican incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson says he didn’t speak out sooner because he didn’t want to hurt former President Donald Trump’s reelection chances.
By Josh Israel - August 22, 2022Unemployment has fallen across the country — to rates lower than those that Trump left office with — following actions taken by the Biden-Harris Administration.
By Oliver Willis - August 22, 2022The Ohio Supreme Court has a 4-3 Republican majority, and three of the four conservative justices have deep ties to the Federalist Society.
By Matt Cohen - August 22, 2022‘If Florida truly believes we live in a post-racial society, then let it make its case,’ wrote U.S. District Judge Mark Walker. ‘But it cannot win the argument by muzzling its opponents.’
By Associated Press - August 21, 2022Documents show that Dr. Sally Satel, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, sometimes cited Purdue-funded studies and doctors in her articles on addiction for major news outlets and occasionally shared drafts of the pieces with Purdue officials in advance.
By Associated Press - August 20, 2022Only older men and voters without a college degree preferred Republican nominee Tudor Dixon, according to the survey.
By Adrian Cole - August 19, 2022Jarrin Jackson tweeted that Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake said, ‘RINOs & the Soros media attack him relentlessly because he’s over the target. Jarrin is a winner and a fighter we need in the state senate!’
By Emily Singer - August 19, 2022Lies pedaled by anti-abortion advocates are being proven wrong by the horrifying effects new laws are having on people across the country.
By Lisa Needham - August 19, 2022The Wisconsin Republican’s ad ends with a photo of Johnson posing with a grinning white man in a sheriff’s uniform.
By Josh Israel - August 19, 2022North Carolina Republican Rep. Ted Budd received numerous industry donations after votes to lift a cap on debit card transaction fees and to prevent financial companies from having to provide credit scores to customers.
By Josh Israel - August 19, 2022