Indicted GOP congressman fails to win endorsement from his own party
Rep. Duncan Hunter is charged with spending over $200,000 of his campaign funds on family vacations, bar tabs, and other personal expenses.
By Associated Press - October 15, 2019Rep. Duncan Hunter is charged with spending over $200,000 of his campaign funds on family vacations, bar tabs, and other personal expenses.
By Associated Press - October 15, 2019More wins include Georgia seeing voter registration skyrocket, and California makeing it easier for parents to run for office.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 04, 2019New York will encourage more voters to participate in the 2020 primaries and Maine pledges to be carbon neutral in 25 years.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 27, 2019Progressives won victories in California, where a new law protects workers in the gig economy, and a new task force in Minnesota will address violence against Native women.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 20, 2019Trump says he wants to solve the problem of homelessness in California, but what he really wants to do is bash a blue state.
By Lisa Needham - September 19, 2019Rep. Paul Cook (R-CA) becomes the 17th Republican to announce he is leaving Congress since the Democrats retook the majority.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 17, 2019Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy offered no evidence to back up his wild conspiracy theory about why Republicans lost so badly in 2018.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 13, 2019Wins for voters in North Carolina and California, as well as the first congressional delegate from the Cherokee Nation, are worth celebrating this week.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 06, 2019Several big automakers are siding with California in following stricter emissions standards, and Trump is highly agitated.
By Lisa Needham - August 22, 2019The lawsuit takes aim at the new ‘public charge’ rule released on Monday.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 13, 2019Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) is offering conflicting answers to a photo he took with a white supremacist who describes the congressman as a friend.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 12, 2019Trump can either release his taxes or not appear on the California primary ballot, according to a new law.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 30, 2019There was a lot to celebrate this week, including a joyous World Cup victory for the U.S. Women’s National Team.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 12, 2019Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), awaiting his federal public corruption trial, sent a vile Islamophobic campaign mailer attacking his likely Democratic opponent.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 12, 2019Democratic-controlled states expanded health care access, made voting easier, and strengthened protections for victims of hate crimes.
By Emily Singer - June 21, 2019Rep. Duncan Hunter’s wife admitted in court to conspiring with her husband to spend campaign funds on themselves illegally.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 13, 2019Education Secretary Betsy DeVos demanded the school not publicize her visit.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 23, 2019Devin Nunes is finding out the hard way that trying to suppress information often just publicizes it more widely.
By Caroline Orr - March 20, 2019The Trump administration rule would deny federal funds to clinics that offer abortions — or that even let women know where they can go to get an abortion.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 04, 2019Republicans in North Carolina tried to steal an election through massive election fraud, and Trump’s response was a conspiracy theory-laden rant full of lies.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 22, 2019Gavin Newsom is the second governor to pull National Guard troops from the U.S.-Mexico border.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 11, 2019California Republican Kevin McCarthy chooses Trump over the people he represents.
By Oliver Willis - January 09, 2019California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye had been thinking of leaving the Republican Party for a long time, but the GOP’s embrace of alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh sealed the deal.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 14, 2018There’s no conspiracy behind Rep. Jeff Denham’s loss. It’s just voters ousting a Trump loyalist from office.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 11, 2018The California GOP is decimated.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 06, 2018Paul Ryan is upset that voters in California replaced half of the Republican congressional delegation in the state, reducing the GOP contingent from 14 to merely 7.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 29, 2018In a stunning display of ignorance, Trump rejected the findings of scientists from 13 federal agencies on the devastating impacts of climate change.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 26, 2018The Trump team has no decency.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 20, 2018California Republicans lost six seats, including every seat in the former GOP stronghold of Orange County.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 19, 2018Like most of Trump’s weird ideas, his latest claim about Finland using rakes to fight fires is a garbled version of something he saw on TV.
By Emily Crockett - November 19, 2018