Assisted living home lawsuit, citations add to controversy over Hovde’s nursing home remarks
Campaign says GOP Senate hopeful has no responsibility for facility and lawsuit lacks merit
By Erik Gunn, Wisconsin Examiner - April 24, 2024U.S. Senate
The Indiana representative has a history of fighting LGBTQ equality and misgendering transgender people.
By Josh Israel - February 03, 2023The latest jobs report shows unemployment at its lowest level since 1969.
By Oliver Willis - February 03, 2023The Florida Republican’s recent ad about how to grow the U.S. economy appears to be illustrated with images filmed outside the country.
By Josh Israel - February 02, 2023The Florida Republican repeated his false claim that Democrats had slashed the program by $280 billion moments after he called for finding other ways to reduce its cost.
By Josh Israel - February 02, 2023Rep. Alex Mooney, originally from Maryland, received more campaign cash from his home state than residents of the state he hopes to represent.
By Emily Singer - February 02, 2023The Florida Republican senator, whose estimated net worth is $200 billion, also falsely accused Democrats of cutting funds for the Medicare program he is trying to sunset.
By Josh Israel - January 27, 2023Three varying anti-abortion proposals by Republicans have already failed to pass the Virginia Senate, making it unlikely further abortion restrictions will become law.
By Associated Press - January 27, 2023The Texas Republican’s constitutional amendment to stop ‘permanently entrenched politicians’ would not apply to the 12 years he’s already served.
By Josh Israel - January 25, 2023Both Gov. Jim Justice and Rep. Alex Mooney opposed the historic climate and health care legislation that is providing funding for energy projects in West Virginia.
By Josh Israel - January 24, 2023Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is spinning his party’s failures as a mandate.
By Josh Israel - January 24, 2023Ruben Gallego, who has represented part of Phoenix in Congress for the last eight years, is the first official candidate in the 2024 contest.
By Associated Press - January 23, 2023The Wisconsin Democrat plans to keep her focus on affordable health care and jobs in Wisconsin and America.
By Josh Israel - January 19, 2023Rep. Jim Banks’ announcement video touts his work to discriminate against transgender kids and desire to punish China for ‘giving us COVID.’
By Josh Israel - January 17, 2023Even after calls for Medicare and Social Security cuts failed to produce their expected 2022 ‘red wave,’ they are still plowing ahead with calls for ‘reforms.’
By Josh Israel - January 12, 2023Wisconsin Republican Mike Gallagher is co-sponsor of a bill that would ban the social media platform in the United States.
By Josh Israel - January 12, 2023The Florida Republican’s unpopular proposal would sunset Social Security and Medicare and raise taxes for millions.
By Josh Israel - January 05, 2023Funds for the grants come from the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure, Investment, and Jobs Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law on Nov. 15, 2021.
By Oliver Willis - January 04, 2023Murray will be third in the line of presidential succession, but is temporarily serving as the second in line since the next Speaker of the House has yet to be chosen.
By Associated Press - January 04, 2023Shapiro will be the third Jewish governor in the Keystone State’s history.
By Associated Press - December 28, 2022Voters didn’t fall for the bogus narrative of unchecked violent crime and so-called ‘defunding’ of police under Democratic leadership.
By Matt Cohen - December 27, 2022The Missouri senator and other Republican lawmakers have been on a crusade against pornography.
By Josh Israel - December 21, 2022Republicans criticized the President’s decision to release fuel from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve throughout 2022. It ended up bringing the U.S. billions of dollars and aligned with lower gas prices.
By Oliver Willis - December 20, 2022Even some Senate Republicans are acknowledging the mess.
By Josh Israel - December 16, 2022After his party’s candidates lost several runoffs, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has come out in support of eliminating or replacing them.
By Emily Singer - December 15, 2022Before Joe Biden’s presidency, only eight Black women had been nominated and confirmed to the court in U.S. history.
By Oliver Willis - December 15, 2022GOP Whip Steve Scalise is urging his caucus to oppose even a brief continuing resolution to avert a holiday crisis.
By Josh Israel - December 14, 2022Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said Friday that she will leave the Democratic Party but continue to get committee assignments from the majority party.
By Josh Israel - December 09, 2022Outside groups — often funded by undisclosed sources — supporting Republican House and Senate candidates significantly outspent groups supporting Democrats in close races.
By Josh Israel - December 08, 2022The Speak Out Act regulates the use of nondisclosure agreements in employment agreements, specifically with the goal to prevent it from covering up sexual misconduct or harassment.
By Associated Press - December 08, 2022The Republican finger-pointing is in full swing after the party’s disastrous performance in the Georgia Senate runoff.
By Emily Singer - December 07, 2022