Republicans are once again trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act after the first attempt at “Trumpcare” went down in flames. The new effort appears to be an attempt to show progress before Trump hits 100 days in office, a key date for an administration that nearly across the board has failed to deliver on lofty […]

In May, Montana Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte exploded into national prominence when he body-slammed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs for asking him about health care repeal, just one night before the special election. Faced with misdemeanor assault charges, Gianforte offered a few shallow acts of contrition and managed to avoid jail time. And the most astonishing […]

The Trump White House is refusing to turn over documents vital to ongoing probes of Russian interference in the presidential election. The House Oversight Committee received classified documents from the Defense Intelligence Agency detailing payments former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn received from Russian entities. The documents were turned over as part of the investigation […]

Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of an independent commission to investigate how Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. A new poll from NBC finds that 73 percent of respondents want an independent probe over the congressional investigations being led by Republicans in the House and Senate. The poll shows a majority of Americans do not […]

According to a newly released secret recording, Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ) is panicking about the fate of the Republican Party in the 2018 midterm elections. McSally appears to believe that Donald Trump’s scandal-plagued presidency could flip the House of Representatives to the Democratic Party. Tucson Weekly got ahold of the recording of McSally’s meeting with […]

With less than two weeks to go before the special election runoff for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, Republicans are running out of time to defeat Jon Ossoff. A new poll in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows Ossoff up against his Republican opponent Karen Handel, 51 to 44. In one of the most striking categories of the […]

The night before the special election in Montana, Republican candidate Greg Gianforte was thrust into the national limelight explosively after he body-slammed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs at a campaign event in Bozeman, breaking his glasses and putting him in the hospital. Gianforte, who did not even apologize for the incident until after he won, pushed back […]

The House Select Committee on Intelligence has sent letters inviting multiple pivotal figures — including former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates — to testify before the committee about links between Donald Trump and Russian active measures. In March, the White House attempted to block Yates from testifying by exerting executive privilege. However, Yates did not back […]

Georgia Republican Karen Handel has a terrible record on women’s health. In addition to being an anti-women’s health extremist, she nearly destroyed the breast cancer foundation Susan G. Komen for the Cure by pushing for her anti-Planned Parenthood agenda. And in their first debate for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, Democrat Jon Ossoff called her out […]

Donald Trump has no substantive legislative accomplishments to show for the first 100 days of his presidency, so Republicans in Congress are trying to resuscitate their attempt to repeal Obamacare and deliver some kind of win to Trump. The extremely conservative House Freedom Caucus, which successfully scuttled the first failed plan, are working with the Tuesday […]

There are few people less savory than Montana’s newly elected Republican congressman, Greg Gianforte. He opposes Social Security because it is not in the Bible. He discriminated against workers with disabilities at his business. He has donated money to white nationalists and antigay hate groups. He has financial ties to sanctioned Russian oil companies and […]

In a few short months, a special election in a solid Republican congressional district in the northern suburbs of Atlanta unexpectedly became a competitive race, as a hitherto-obscure 30-year-old Democrat named Jon Ossoff was promoted by a grassroots Daily Kos campaign and by Republicans’ incompetent hit jobs against him. Soon, Ossoff was racking up endorsements […]

On Tuesday, voters in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District will head to the polls to fill the vacancy left by Tom Price, Donald Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services — a seat that has been in Republican hands since 1978. Against all odds and conventional wisdom, Democrat Jon Ossoff, the young former congressional staffer and documentary […]

The special election to replace Tom Price in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District is not going well for Republicans. Jon Ossoff, young documentary filmmaker and Democratic rising star, is tied or ahead in recent polls and benefiting from a coordinated field operation. Meanwhile, the GOP is struggling to prop up Karen Handel, a pro-Trump career politician who famously destroyed […]

Republicans who voted to repeal Obamacare and kick 23 million people off their insurance are struggling to justify to their constituents why they deserve to lose health care. Most Republican congressmen are so scared they are simply refusing to hold town halls at all. The few who have chosen to actually face their constituents and justify their votes, […]

It would be hard to find a more anti-science congressman than Republican Lamar Smith of Texas. Despite having no science degree, Republicans made him chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, where he has used Breitbart articles to deny man-made climate change, attacked peer-reviewed science journals, subpoenaed government scientists for no reason, and gave […]

[See correction below, making clear that Rep. Carlos Curbelo was actually the first of two Republicans to broach impeachment.] Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) and Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) have become the first two congressional Republicans to admit that Donald Trump’s behavior may rise to the level of an impeachable offense. Amash told The Hill that […]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is forcing her Republican colleagues to take a public stand on an independent investigation of Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. In a letter to the Democratic caucus, she announced that she will be filing a “discharge petition” Wednesday to force a vote on the Swalwell-Cummings bill – also known as the “Protecting Our Democracy Act” or […]

What a difference a few weeks — and a ton of anger from constituents — can make. In April, Republican Rep. Leonard Lance was on the receiving end of what HuffPost described as a “verbal beating” from his New Jersey constituents, after he tried very unsuccessfully to dodge his own spotty record on support for Planned Parenthood. […]

Rep. Darrell Issa, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the House of Representatives, again aligned himself with Donald Trump and his increasingly toxic brand through his response to a protest outside his office. According to video of the event that an organizer posted online (now removed) and a statement by Mike Levin, who is […]

Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress keep trying to make questions about Russia’s involvement in our election go away, but so far, they are failing miserably. A new NBC/WSJ poll shows that voters want an investigation, despite claims by various White House officials, and Trump himself, that the investigation “should be over.” But voters do not believe Congress is up to […]

Politico reports that the House Republicans just voted to roll back Americans’ right to privacy on the internet: House Republicans voted Tuesday to revoke the FCC’s broadband privacy rules, sending legislation to the White House that would undo the federal government’s strongest-ever online privacy regulations. Republicans passed the bill 215 to 205 over the fierce […]

House Republicans are hiding from their constituents again. According to Town Hall Project, as of May 30, only 8 out of the 217 House Republican have scheduled town hall meetings during the current recess. These Republicans exhibited similar cowardice before, with most of them refusing to hold town halls after the first health care repeal vote, too. The public […]

Donald Trump has plunged the nation headlong into a constitutional crisis by firing FBI Director James Comey as the bureau investigates his own collusion with Russia. It is one of Trump’s most brazen abuses of power so far, intensifying calls for his impeachment. Trump is the most unqualified president of our time, and certainly one of the most […]

In January, House Democrats introduced the “Protecting American Democracy Act” to get to the truth about Russia’s interference in the presidential election. Every single member of the Democratic caucus signed on to co-sponsor the bill. Their Republican colleagues were not as eager to support it. After several weeks, one Republican, Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina, signed on. Now […]

On Tuesday, something amazing happened in the special election for Kansas’s 4th Congressional District, vacated by Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo when he was named Donald Trump’s CIA director. Democratic Army veteran and civil rights lawyer James Thompson squared off against Republican state Treasurer Ron Estes. This district, encompassing the city of Wichita and a large part of […]

The House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian election interference exploded like a bomb this week when FBI Director James Comey revealed that his agency has been investigating possible “coordination” between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russians since July. Attempts by Republicans to deflect and defend Trump similarly blew up in their faces, notably with House Intelligence […]

For the past couple of months, Democrats have been winning big at the local level, spurred on by voter enthusiasm and outrage against not just Donald Trump but the entire Republican Party leadership. And these wins are not likely to stop any time soon. On Wednesday, a new poll from Quinnipiac University was released, which […]

The special election for Montana’s at-large Congressional District was a strange and unpredictable affair from the beginning, with Democrat Rob Quist, a celebrity folk singer, facing off against Republican Greg Gianforte, a tech millionaire with ties to white nationalists, hate groups, and Russian oil companies. Gianforte carried the night, as expected, given that Montana has […]

Physically assaulting a reporter is no big thing if it means holding on to political power, according to public statements from multiple Republicans. These men have gone on record to minimize the behavior of Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte, who according to multiple eyewitnesses and an audio recording, physically attacked Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs by […]