New NC GOP chair flirts with bogus stolen election conspiracies
Simmons predecessor was a staunch 2020 election denier
By Jesse Valentine - April 19, 2024Local
Even Donald Trump has called the Alabama Republican ‘disappointing.’
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2022Physicians say they’re worried political attacks will make it harder for patients to access gender-affirming care.
By Casey Quinlan - March 18, 2022Jane Timken is running for Senate on Trump’s immigration policies.
By Josh Israel - March 18, 2022David Perdue has claimed Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was ‘sitting on’ proof of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
By Nick Vachon - March 17, 2022North Carolina Republican Mark Walker stood by Lt. Governor Mark Robinson after he made bigoted comments about LGBTQ people.
By Josh Israel - March 16, 2022The Department of Transportation recently announced it would distribute $409 million in federal funds for 70 projects in 39 states.
By Oliver Willis - March 16, 2022The Wisconsin senator called his idea an ‘elegant solution’ to the child care crisis and ‘a win-win-win situation across the board.’
By Josh Israel - March 16, 2022The One Georgia PAC is funding candidates and groups that say the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
By Nick Vachon - March 15, 2022The Florida Republican is defending his party’s harmful ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation.
By Josh Israel - March 15, 2022New Hampshire Republican Chuck Morse has made questionable comments about international matters since jumping into the Senate race.
By Josh Israel - March 15, 2022‘The courts have allowed Texas to nullify a constitutional right,’ Nancy Northrup, who runs the Center for Reproductive Rights, said.
By Lisa Needham - March 14, 2022Jennifer Carnahan was forced out of her job as chair of the Minnesota Republican Party over ties to an alleged sex trafficker.
By Emily Singer - March 14, 2022Nearly all of Adam Laxalt’s corporate campaign donations have come from the oil and gas sector.
By Josh Israel - March 14, 2022The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on behalf of the state chapter of the NAACP, the League of Women Voters and Mi Familia Vota.
By Associated Press - March 12, 2022In 2014, the governor of South Dakota said politicians should refrain from publicly criticizing Barack Obama during Russia’s invasion of the Crimean peninsula. But she isn’t extending the same courtesy to Joe Biden.
By Nick Vachon - March 11, 2022Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley endorsed Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in his run for reelection.
By Josh Israel - March 10, 2022Conservative legislators in the state have proposed expensive legislation that aims to prevent nonexistent election fraud.
By Nick Vachon - March 10, 2022Transgender sports bans have spread quickly through state legislatures.
By Casey Quinlan - March 10, 2022Americans in the Medicaid gap are risking their lives because they can’t afford health care. President Joe Biden’s agenda may help address that problem.
By Belinda Sherley - March 09, 2022The Wisconsin Republican also lauded Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) for his plan to sunset Social Security and raise taxes on most Americans.
By Josh Israel - March 08, 2022The Wisconsin Republican senator said the party needs to be ready to ‘make good on what we established as our priorities.’
By Josh Israel - March 07, 2022Republican Chuck Morse suggested Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives in Congress made Vladimir Putin do it.
By Josh Israel - March 07, 2022Today’s cartoon from Clay Jones.
By Clay Jones - March 04, 2022‘I am relieved that we are moving out of state and filled with anxiety for everyone who can’t escape this nightmare,’ one parent said.
By Casey Quinlan - March 03, 2022Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano has been subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
By Nick Vachon - March 02, 2022Like Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), millionaire Mike Gibbons thinks taxes are too low for working families.
By Josh Israel - March 02, 2022The GOP congresswoman is facing criticism for speaking at a prominent white supremacist’s conference in Orlando, Florida, last weekend.
By Josh Israel - March 01, 2022A year before touting the broadband project, Gov. Brian Kemp said the American Rescue Plan was a ‘slap in the face’ to Georgia.
By Oliver Willis - March 01, 2022Leading GOP candidates for secretary of state in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona have endorsed former President Donald Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was rigged.
By Nick Vachon - March 01, 2022Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are targeting trans kids and their families.
By Casey Quinlan - February 28, 2022