Corporate lobbyist and Republican Ed Gillespie has been running an increasingly racist campaign for Virginia governor. But at a private fundraiser in September, he revealed an outright and shocking disdain for the citizens of his own state. Campaigning in Harrisonburg with Republican state Sen. Mark Obenshain, he laughingly referred to Northern Virginia, where he has […]

On Saturday, Shareblue Media reporter Mike Stark was violently tackled by six police officers, forced to the ground, and arrested while filming Virginia GOP gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie’s vehicle at the annual Annandale parade. Stark was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, although video footage makes clear he did neither of those things. The officers claim […]

After months of being harassed by Ed Gillespie’s campaign for simply trying to ask the Republican gubernatorial nominee questions, Shareblue Media reporter Mike Stark was violently arrested Saturday while filming the annual Annandale parade. Gillespie has repeatedly dodged questions from Stark about his increasingly racist campaign, uncomfortable endorsement from Donald Trump, and his use of […]

Virginia gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie’s decision to ramp up his campaign’s racism in the final weeks before Election Day has earned the approval of one very influential fan: Donald Trump. Trump praised Gillespie’s embrace of racism in a tweet, hailing the former lobbyist as someone who “might even save our great statues/heritage” and “be a […]

Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie is going all in on racism in the final weeks before the election. In a newly released campaign ad, Gillespie vows to preserve statues erected to honor the treasonous movement that sought to preserve and extend the practice of owning black people within the United States. Gillespie criticized his […]

Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for governor in Virginia, avoids the word “lobbyist” on the campaign trail. Instead, he employs euphemisms like “when I was in government relations” or “when I did public policy work” when he talks about his shilling for big banks, big tobacco, big energy, and big pharma. Gillespie’s doublespeak is a […]

Roy Moore, the disgraced ex-judge now running for Jeff Sessions’ vacant Senate seat in Alabama, has a long history of bizarre interpretations of the law, including that God’s word overrides all written laws, and that federal judges do not have power to overrule states. But one of his most interesting recent positions is that First […]

As Virginia’s race for governor enters its final stretch, Republican nominee Ed Gillespie finds himself consistently polling behind his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam. In a desperate bid to increase turnout, Gillespie has abandoned his pledges of civility and inclusiveness. In addition to launching a shockingly racist ad campaign, Gillespie has sought help from […]

Republican Ed Gillespie has claimed he would reject racism “at every turn” if he were elected Virginia’s next governor, but his actual campaign tells another story. Gillespie put George Allen, the disgraced former senator and one of the state’s most notorious racists, on his team and refused to answer for that decision. And he’s been […]

As the increasingly tense and racially charged Virginia gubernatorial election draws to a close, Democratic candidate Ralph Northam and Republican candidate Ed Gillespie strike a clear contrast. Gillespie, a former party chair and adviser to George W. Bush, is a worst-of-both-worlds politician. On one hand, he is quick to court white supremacists by stoking Trumpian […]

Ed Gillespie, Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, is running a campaign he hopes will succeed at least in part by appealing to racist fears. As the campaign enters the home stretch, he’s unleashed a volley of dishonest ads that intentionally conflate the miniscule population of MS-13 gang members with the larger community of undocumented […]

At the beginning of the Virginia gubernatorial race, GOP candidate and former party chair Ed Gillespie tried to position himself as a “traditional” Republican who is not bound to Donald Trump or his politics. Polls show Trump is not popular in Virginia — the only state of the former Confederacy to vote for Hillary Clinton […]

After Stephen Paddock killed 59 people in Las Vegas and injured nearly 600 more with an arsenal of weapons, American political discussion is once again dominantly focused on gun policy. From workplace watercoolers to corner bars, to newsrooms across the United States, people are asking what can be done to prevent senseless shootings. Of course, […]

The gubernatorial election in Virginia between Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam and former GOP party chair Ed Gillespie is a neck and neck race, getting uglier all the time and marred with vicious, racially tinged controversy in the wake of the chaos in Charlottesville. But one thing Gillespie wants to make clear is that he, […]

The nomination of Roy Moore for Senate in Alabama, in the face of all of Donald Trump’s attempts to sway the race against him, was not the only electoral embarrassment suffered by the GOP on Tuesday night. Democrats picked up two more seats in state legislative elections, both women — bringing the total of state-level […]

Fresh from his humiliation over health care this week, Donald Trump has been dealt another blow in Alabama, where the election to fill Jeff Sessions’ Senate seat is in full swing. The GOP runoff came down to Luther Strange, the incumbent appointed to the Senate by Alabama’s ex-governor under corrupt circumstances, and Roy Moore, a […]

Any way you slice it, Tuesday was a horrible day for the Republican Party. Senate Republicans were forced to pull the plug on Obamacare repeal. Special Counsel Robert Mueller continued to close in on the Trump team. The Alabama GOP looks poised to reject Trump’s preferred candidate for U.S. Senate in favor of a crazy, […]

The clear GOP frontrunner in the Alabama Senate special election has become Roy Moore — if anything, an even worse, more dangerous, and more embarrassing person than Jeff Sessions himself. But while he is divisive even among national Republicans, many prominent GOP figures are now jumping in to support him. According to Axios, disgraced ex-Trump adviser […]

Randy “Iron Stache” Bryce, the Army veteran and union ironworker running against House Speaker Paul Ryan, has a stinging assessment of Ryan and his party’s leadership. “Now they’re in the driver’s seat,” Bryce told Shareblue in an exclusive interview, “and the car won’t start.” That’s part of why Ryan is so deeply unpopular. In July, […]

As Mike Pence and his operatives continue to push back against the exposé of his shadow campaign to run for president in 2020, late night host Jimmy Kimmel has added to the growing mockery of the entire episode. Very few people are buying Team Pence’s claim that he isn’t making preparations for the job just […]

In June, Iowa Democrats suffered a blow in their hopes to defeat notorious GOP Rep. Steve King, when their rising star Kim Weaver withdrew her candidacy after receiving harassment and death threats from King’s supporters. Adding to the insult, King not only refused to condemn the threats — he accused Weaver of making them up. But Democrats […]

In a stunning move that has even some Republicans shaking their heads in disbelief, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) debuted a campaign ad on Monday that features the audio of the gunshots that erupted last month while Republican congressmen, including Brooks, were holding a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. The 30-second ad, as part of Brooks’ […]

New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins is one of Congress’ most loyal and sycophantic supporters of Donald Trump and the right-wing agenda. The first congressman to endorse Trump for president, Collins has drawn fire for some recent statements. He said it was “useless” to meet with his constituents, asked a reporter on air to explain […]

While most of the country has to wait until 2018 to elect new leaders, folks in Virginia head to the polls in just a few months. And Democrats are putting together a roster of strong, progressive candidates, led by women. In Prince William County, Hala Ayala is hoping to bring her values of empowerment for […]

Mary Jennings (“MJ”) Hegar’s courage is not in question. She was awarded a Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor for her service in the United States Air Force – and now she is running to unseat incumbent Texas Republican Rep. John Carter, who has held the position for 14 years. Carter is a […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan doesn’t have the guts to face his constituents and explain his disastrous health care bill, but that doesn’t stop him from going on the GOP-friendly Fox News. During a recent interview, Ryan defended his party’s plan to repeal Obamacare and give tax cuts to the rich by attacking “the left.” “I think […]

Recent polling sends a strong, unequivocal message to Republican senators in swing states: If you vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, you will likely face serious consequences in your next re-election bid. Voters in Colorado, Iowa, and North Carolina disapprove of repealing the ACA by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Even among Republican-identified voters, support for […]

Cosmopolitan magazine ignited a firestorm on the right when they released an innocuous enough list of women who had “generated 2020 buzz” as presidential contenders — featuring only Democrats. Because naturally, only Democrats are looking at running a campaign against Donald Trump, in the hope to make him a one-term president. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), […]

On Tuesday, voters in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District turned out in record numbers to choose between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel. The race has been historic, in terms of enthusiasm, money raised, and the simple fact that the young and unlikely Democratic candidate has turned a deeply red seat, held by Republicans for […]

Randy Bryce is an ironworker, a father, a son, a cancer survivor, a military veteran, a union member, and a Democrat. And he’s running for Congress in Wisconsin to unseat Republican Speaker Paul Ryan. Bryce announced his bid for Congress and introduced himself to voters with a powerful video that quickly went viral, viewed over 125,000 times in […]