GOP faces challengers in 226 House seats while struggling to raise cash for midterms
This year’s battleground map is now expanding into red states.
By Eric Boehlert - February 08, 2018This year’s battleground map is now expanding into red states.
By Eric Boehlert - February 08, 2018The folks at Fox News are stooping so low to defend Trump’s racist policies, they’re mocking a child’s empathy for his friend.
By Kaili Joy Gray - February 08, 2018The Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee is trying to dig his way out of his embarrassing failure and somehow is just making things worse for himself.
By Kaili Joy Gray - February 07, 2018The Democratic House leader took to the floor for “one minute” to demand protection for Dreamers, and just refused to stop talking.
By Matthew Chapman - February 07, 2018Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who immigrated from India, treated a right-wing talk show host to a lesson on how family immigration actually works.
By Matthew Chapman - February 07, 2018Trump smeared black lawmakers who wouldn’t applaud him, calling them “treasonous.” Now, one of them lets him have it.
By Oliver Willis - February 06, 2018Republicans will stoop mighty low to defend Donald Trump’s outrageous accusation that Democratic lawmakers were “treasonous” and “un-American” for refusing to applaud him at the State of the Union address. The attack came Monday, at an official White House event, just hours after Trump accused Democrats and former intelligence officials of leaking of classified information. On […]
By Tommy Christopher - February 06, 2018House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes threw a tantrum on Fox News because no one is taking him seriously after his embarrassing FBI memo failure.
By Matthew Chapman - February 05, 2018A week ago, they were trying to block it to cover for Trump.
By Caroline Orr - February 05, 2018Trump’s own party knows the FBI smear memo is a flop.
By Tommy Christopher - February 04, 2018Devin Nunes is doing the work of the White House and it’s not going over well with his constituents.
By Caroline Orr - February 03, 2018With longtime incumbent Ileana Ros-Lehtinen retiring, Republicans are starting to concede that Florida’s 27th Congressional District is unwinnable.
By Matthew Chapman - February 03, 2018Democrats are crushing Republicans at fundraising in the districts where it matters most to win back the House in 2018.
By Oliver Willis - February 02, 2018Even some Republicans have warned Trump not to do it. But Rep. James Comer is more loyal to Trump’s agenda than the rule of law.
By Tommy Christopher - February 01, 2018The GOP House Intel chairman wants unlimited transparency for his FBI conspiracy theories, but not for himself.
By Matthew Chapman - February 01, 2018Republicans are losing their most prominent failed witch hunter and Trump protector in the House.
By Matthew Chapman - January 31, 2018“This is still our House. Its the peoples House.”
By Matthew Chapman - January 31, 2018Opting for ugly threats of intimidation, the GOP descends to new depths.
By Eric Boehlert - January 30, 2018The GOP is waging a massive smear campaign against the FBI, and they’re trying to silence criticism.
By Matthew Chapman - January 30, 2018As Rep. Adam Schiff vehemently noted, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are doing nothing more than putting Trump and their party above the nation and the people.
By Matthew Chapman - January 29, 2018Appropriations Chair Rodney Frelinghuysen is the latest House Republican to head for the hills.
By Matthew Chapman - January 29, 2018Trump has delayed sanctions until the last minute, and it’s obvious why.
By Tommy Christopher - January 28, 2018“Republicans are the best I’ve ever seen at taking good facts and overstating them, and therefore changing the narrative.”
By Tommy Christopher - January 28, 2018The Fresno Bee excoriated Rep. Devin Nunes for “doing the dirty work” of the Trump White House and caring more about conspiracy theories than constituents.
By Caroline Orr - January 27, 2018Democrats just picked up another strong chance to flip a GOP House seat blue this November.
By Eric Boehlert - January 26, 2018Indiana Rep. Jim Banks tried to explain his support for Trump at a recent town hall, but his constituents were having none of it.
By Eric Boehlert - January 25, 2018While Republicans and the White House tries to dismantle trust in law enforcement, one Republican congressman says enough already.
By Eric Boehlert - January 24, 2018Rep. Pat Meehan allegedly sexually harassed a staffer, ruined her career when she rejected him, paid a settlement to her with taxpayers dollars, then blamed the whole thing on stress from trying to repeal Obamacare. The RNC is still backing him.
By Matthew Chapman - January 24, 2018Democrat Austin Davis won the Pennsylvania Statehouse special election in a blowout, over-performing Clinton by 30 points.
By Matthew Chapman - January 24, 2018Hardliners in the House are teaming up with the White House to make sure any Senate immigration deal doesn’t make it to Trump’s desk.
By Eric Boehlert - January 23, 2018