Conservatives defend Moms for Liberty after SPLC designates it a hate group
The conservative nonprofit was newly included in the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of anti-government extremist groups.
By Will Fritz - June 13, 2023The conservative nonprofit was newly included in the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of anti-government extremist groups.
By Will Fritz - June 13, 2023Nearly the entire House and Senate Republican caucuses oppose equal rights. These 17 lawmakers take bigotry to an even higher level.
By Will Fritz and Josh Israel - June 02, 2023At least 15 current senators and representatives say reductions in funding to safety net programs should be discussed.
By Josh Israel - March 14, 2023Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) has referred to the popular social media app as ‘digital fentanyl.’
By Josh Israel - February 10, 2023The Indiana representative has a history of fighting LGBTQ equality and misgendering transgender people.
By Josh Israel - February 03, 2023Rep. Jim Banks’ announcement video touts his work to discriminate against transgender kids and desire to punish China for ‘giving us COVID.’
By Josh Israel - January 17, 2023Republican lawmakers insist that children are dying ‘with COVID, not of COVID.’
By Josh Israel - February 09, 2022Republicans in Congress are more upset at the social media website than at their colleague’s blatant transphobia.
By Josh Israel - October 25, 2021GOP Rep. Bill Posey of Florida on Friday used a phrase standing in for the profane insult against the president on the House floor.
By Emily Singer - October 22, 2021Republicans on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee complained about Democrats’ attempt to hear witnesses on extremist recruitment in the U.S. military.
By Matt Cohen - October 13, 2021House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy made the choice to pull all of his members from the committee that’s probing the insurrection.
By Emily Singer - July 27, 2021The House minority leader unsuccessfully tried to get Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Jim Banks (R-IN) onto the select committee to investigate the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
By Emily Singer - July 27, 2021‘When we take the majority back in 2022, I’ll make sure consequences are doled out,’ said Rep. Madison Cawthorn.
By Josh Israel - July 23, 2021The Wyoming Republican said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has taken ‘every opportunity’ to block a legitimate investigation into the insurrection at the Capitol.
By Emily Singer - July 22, 2021The House speaker rejected the appointments of GOP Reps. Jim Banks and Jim Jordan, both of whom voted to overturn the Joe Biden’s win, and spread the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
By Emily Singer - July 21, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has the power to veto the minority leader’s picks.
By Emily Singer - July 20, 2021A study conducted for a group of Republican lawmakers found a few dozen sailors who don’t like diversity training.
By Josh Israel - July 14, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has the power to nix any of the GOP’s selections.
By Emily Singer - July 02, 2021They say increased gun sales have nothing to do with it. Criminologists disagree.
By Josh Israel - June 24, 2021A total of 175 House Republicans voted against creating the Jan. 6 commission.
By Josh Israel - May 20, 2021Republican Rep. Jim Banks is even threatening to investigate the Bidens for using a legal tax loophole that the president is trying to close.
By Josh Israel - April 05, 2021Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) credits Donald Trump with the ‘gift’ of attracting working-class voters to the party.
By Donna Provencher - April 01, 2021From undermining coronavirus relief efforts to attacking transgender students, Republicans have filed dozens of extreme bills to try to undermine President Joe Biden and the Democratic agenda.
By Josh Israel - February 05, 2021Six Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election are up in arms over plans for permanent security fencing around the Capitol.
By Emily Singer - January 29, 2021As COVID cases spike nationally, Rep. Jim Banks is very upset that a colleague wore a mask with a cannabis leaf design.
By Josh Israel - December 07, 2020‘It is outrageous to threaten schools to open no matter what in the middle of a pandemic,’ said Rep. Andy Levin.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 12, 2020Americans give Donald Trump poor marks for his handling of the viral outbreak while he blames China.
By Oliver Willis - April 14, 2020Rep. Jim Banks is pushing to divest Chinese and Russian holdings from federal retirement accounts.
By Josh Israel - October 08, 2019Rep. Jim Banks wants Congress to force those arrested at D.C. protests to pay for police overtime, among other things.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 24, 2019Indiana 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, 2018