New NC GOP chair flirts with bogus stolen election conspiracies
Simmons predecessor was a staunch 2020 election denier
By Jesse Valentine - April 19, 2024Local
Nine of the 10 Republicans in the state’s congressional delegation voted against the $550 billion bill.
By Josh Israel - February 02, 2022The state’s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, championed the bill.
By Casey Quinlan - February 02, 2022Not a single House Republican voted for the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021.
By Josh Israel - February 02, 2022Florida is among many states in which Black neighborhoods have been destroyed by highway construction.
By Oliver Willis - February 01, 2022‘I don’t know how in the world another audit is going to satisfy conspiracy believers,’ said one Michigan county clerk.
By Matt Cohen - February 01, 2022Nevada Republican Jim Marchant is leading a coalition of Trump-backed secretary of state candidates to oversee elections in key 2024 swing states.
By Josh Axelrod - January 31, 2022Pennsylvania Republican Dave McCormick is being hit from all sides over his business record.
By Josh Israel - January 31, 2022Oglethorpe Bridge in Albany, Georgia, is nearly 70 years old and is used by over 30,000 cars per day.
By Oliver Willis - January 31, 2022Andrónico Luksic once rented a $5.5 million home in Washington, D.C., to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner while his family’s mining company lobbied the Trump administration.
By Oliver Willis - January 28, 2022The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation reports 176 bridges in Allegheny County alone are in poor condition.
By Josh Israel - January 28, 2022The Iowa Republican once thanked police officers for defending the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Times have changed.
By Josh Israel - January 27, 2022The right-wing push for ‘parental rights’ in public school education has resulted in bills targeting LGBTQ-inclusive content.
By Casey Quinlan - January 27, 2022At least five GOP candidates for Michigan governor have said they believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.
By Nick Vachon - January 25, 2022Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) thinks he has done ‘a really good job,’ even with an approval rating of 36%.
By Josh Israel - January 24, 2022The Trump administration held up billions of dollars in relief funds for Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
By Oliver Willis - January 21, 2022Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent that the majority’s ruling allows Texas ‘yet again to extend the deprivation of the federal constitutional rights of its citizens.’
By Lisa Needham - January 21, 2022Five Senate Republicans are backing a bill to lift vaccine requirements imposed by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
By Josh Israel - January 20, 2022Sean Parnell has been accused by his estranged wife of verbal and physical abuse, charges he has vehemently denied.
By Josh Israel - January 19, 2022Marshall has invested tens of thousands of dollars in mutual funds with Chinese holdings.
By Josh Israel - January 18, 2022An analysis by the Urban Institute estimated that extending the credit as developed by the Biden administration would cut child poverty by 40%.
By Associated Press - January 16, 2022‘Under state law, I think clearly you have forgery of a public record, which is a 14-year offense, and election law forgery, which is a five-year offense,’ said Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
By Associated Press - January 15, 2022‘The evidence in these cases makes clear beyond all doubt that the General Assembly did not heed the clarion call sent by Ohio voters to stop political gerrymandering,’ the Ohio court said.
By Josh Israel - January 14, 2022Cancer screenings and other health care services could be severely disrupted as a result of GOP officials’ actions.
By Lisa Needham - January 14, 2022‘I would end the 60-vote filibuster right now,’ Cruz said in 2017. He also called the Senate rule ‘stupid.’
By Josh Israel - January 13, 2022Rep.-elect Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick improved on President Joe Biden’s 2020 margin of victory in Florida’s 20th Congressional District.
By Josh Israel - January 12, 2022The Biden administration continues its efforts to get children back in the classroom.
By Josh Axelrod - January 11, 2022The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel once dubbed Johnson Wisconsin’s “most irresponsible representative” since Joseph McCarthy.
By Josh Israel - January 10, 2022New polling finds strong disapproval among swing voters of their own elected officials’ attempts at rejecting President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
By Josh Israel - January 07, 2022Garrett Soldano, a chiropractor and anti-lockdown activist, has also called for a lifetime jail sentence for Dr. Anthony Fauci.
By Nick Vachon - January 05, 2022Republican leaders argue their probes are needed to restore public confidence in elections, but experts say the reviews are undermining faith in the electoral system.
By Associated Press - January 01, 2022