Donald Trump has handled the disaster in Puerto Rico with a callousness and indifference bordering on outright malice. Between slow-walking military aid to the island, viciously attacking the mayor of San Juan, throwing paper towels at people with no water and power, and repeatedly refusing to allow foreign ships to enter Puerto Rican ports with […]

Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) blasted Donald Trump for threatening to end disaster relief for Puerto Rico, describing his words as “shameful,” “unpresidential,” and “an insult.” In an early morning meltdown, Trump wrote that “We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders” in Puerto Rico “forever” and that the infrastructure on the island ” […]

The depth of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election to install Donald Trump in the White House is becoming clearer by the day, with the revelation that Russia paid for ads on Facebook targeted to inflame racial tensions and divide the left. But social media was not the only way Russia weaponized data to […]

With the Trump administration languishing under a week of abysmal news coverage and collapsing poll numbers, Vice President Mike Pence threw red meat to the GOP base by continuing Donald Trump’s culture war against black NFL athletes protesting police brutality. It soon became clear that Pence’s walkout from an Indianapolis Colts game, ostensibly over the […]

The #TakeAKnee protests from black athletes and others in support of racial justice captured the world’s attention as they grew in scope and significance following Donald Trump’s petty, vindictive response and his callous treatment of those protesting. But it is not Trump — an extremely privileged white man who wears his bigotry on his sleeve — […]

Congress was relieved, in 2015, to see the back of Rep. Michael Grimm. A Republican who represented Staten Island, Grimm was busted three years ago for conspiring to evade taxes on a restaurant he owned in New York City, keeping two sets of books, and hiring undocumented immigrants he could pay off the record. He […]

Only days ago, supposedly “pro-life” conservative Tim Murphy, a seven-term congressman from Pennsylvania, helped pass a bill he had cosponsored to ban abortion at 20 weeks. Now Murphy is suddenly resigning in disgrace over his very own abortion scandal. When the married congressman and his mistress experienced a pregnancy scare, he reportedly urged her to […]

A Republican who has served in the House for more than 40 years ought to know the rules. But Alaska Rep. Don Young either doesn’t — or he doesn’t care. At least, not when Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is saying things he doesn’t want to hear. On Thursday, Pelosi delivered a brutal speech about the […]

Few Republicans in Congress are more craven or cowardly than Rep. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania. A fierce opponent of women’s reproductive choice and member of the “House Pro-Life Caucus,” Murphy repeatedly backed bills to restrict access to abortion, including one that would give embryos 14th Amendment rights, and proclaimed he would ensure “American taxpayer dollars […]

Rep. Tim Murphy, the ultra-conservative so-called “family values” Republican from Pennsylvania, has never met a restriction on women’s health care he didn’t fervently support, including a vote in the House on Tuesday to ban abortion after 20 weeks. Murphy is a co-sponsor of that bill. But apparently, there is one exception to Murphy’s otherwise zero […]

When conservatives talk about being “pro-life,” one has to wonder just what lives they mean. They don’t mean the 9 million kids covered by the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which Republicans in Congress just allowed to expire because they were too busy focusing on their failing Obamacare repeal plan and their tax scam giveaway to […]

There is no single reason why the National Rifle Association has a death grip over the debate on gun regulation in the United States. Much of its power comes from its cult-like cultural propaganda videos to NRA membership, which galvanizes them to relentlessly call members of Congress. But another source of the NRA’s power lies in […]

Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) seems to think it’s acceptable to call his women colleagues in the House “eye candy.” Walker is the head of the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), one of the leading congressional caucuses on the right, which has spearheaded the push for tax cuts and other conservative legislation and claims some of […]

GOP Rep. Todd Rokita of Indiana, who hopes to challenge Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly in 2018, has a reputation that precedes him. An unapologetic Trump supporter who once took to the air to warn immigrant children might be carrying Ebola, Rokita is better known on Capitol Hill as a ruthless taskmaster. He once forced an aide […]

Since Donald Trump took office, agents working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have resorted to reprehensible, underhanded tactics to remove people, often with no regard for due process or the suspects’ individual situations. In Sacramento, ICE agents targeted a church during a Mother’s Day service. In Alexandria, they ambushed people as they left a […]

Few congressmen are more unsavory than Republican Darrell Issa of California. He is one of the most notorious, bombastic right-wing partisan attack dogs in the House of Representatives. But on Tuesday, Issa learned the hard way that there are consequences to bullying everyone who gets in his way. Last year, Issa’s Democratic opponent, retired Marine […]

Historically, it is bad news for a political party when incumbents in their House majority, particularly those in swing districts, start retiring en masse. 2006 and 2010, wave elections that flipped control of the House, were both foreshadowed by a slew of Republican and Democratic retirements, respectively. Now, the same early warning signs are brewing […]

After quickly passing the Senate, the Harvey relief bill, which is part of a larger resolution to keep the government open and raise the debt ceiling, went to the House, where it also sailed through. Just as in the Senate, a sizable fraction of the Republican House caucus — 90 of them in total — […]

Outraged by the behavior and radical right-wing agenda of Donald Trump and GOP congressional leadership, Democrats are laser-focused on winning back the House in 2018. And that could spell huge trouble for Speaker Paul Ryan, who could end up struggling to maintain his majority. There is no question Democrats have a massive advantage in voter […]

After listening to her Republican colleague belittle her for not knowing “a damn thing” about the issue up for debate in the House of Representatives Thursday night, and after the male Republican dismissively referred to her as “young lady” on the floor of the House, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) had heard enough. “The gentleman has […]

Despite the undeniable evidence that Donald Trump and his family colluded with the Russian government to undermine the U.S. election, Republicans in Congress are still resolutely dodging any discussion of the issue, all the while repeatedly proposing to re-investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails and conspiracy theories about the DNC. On Thursday evening, during a conference of […]

Montana’s Republican congressman entered the national consciousness explosively when he body-slammed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs on the evening before his special election, only to be elected anyway. Facing a misdemeanor assault charge, Gianforte offered an insincere apology and then spent over a month fighting with a local judge over the requirement to report to booking […]

Demanding that “every Republican congressman and senator has to make a choice” about Donald Trump’s recent embrace of Nazis and white supremacists, retired Marine Lt. Col. Amy McGrath is out with a searing new campaign ad that shows how Democrats plan to hold Republicans accountable for Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior. Running in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District […]

Virginia Rep. Dave Brat compared the constituents in his district to the murderous white supremacists who created havoc in his own state over the weekend. The tea party Republican has represented the 7th Congressional District since his shocking upset in 2014, when he successfully challenged then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for being insufficiently conservative. Brat […]

From the outset of his presidency, Donald Trump has staffed his inner White House circle with people intimately tied to hate groups and white nationalism. There is chief strategist Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart, who has championed the so-called “alt-right” and wants to curb due process for immigrants. There is Stephen Miller, who […]

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, […]

At a recent dinner hosted by the Lexington Medical Society, Kentucky Republican Andy Barr told a room full of 100 physicians that no patients would lose their health insurance or face higher premiums if the GOP’s health care repeal plan became law. That’s just a lie, and one of the many reasons Democrats are lining […]

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 […]

The evidence Russia sought to disrupt the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, and that members of Trump’s team were aware and complicit, has gotten stronger by the week and is now undeniable. But in a deflection worthy of Kremlin propaganda, Republicans have repeatedly tried to protect Trump by changing the subject — […]

The United States Congress has a message for Donald Trump: Are you with us, or with Russia? After reaching a deal to proceed with bipartisan legislation on sanctions against Russia, in response to the foreign adversary’s interference in our election, the House of Representatives passed the bill Tuesday with overwhelming support, 419 to 3. The […]