Ashley Hinson backed rollbacks as PFAS contamination spread
PFAS exposure in drinking water has been linked to cancers and birth defects.
By Jesse Valentine - May 04, 2026
PFAS exposure in drinking water has been linked to cancers and birth defects.
By Jesse Valentine - May 04, 2026
Christina Nolan has been trying to present herself as someone who would not rubber-stamp McConnell’s far-right agenda.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2022
GOP senators are making bogus arguments to defend the filibuster rule.
By Josh Israel - January 11, 2022
Under the proposed law, independent prosecutors — not military commanders — would handle the most serious cases.
By Associated Press - December 12, 2021
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said a panel investigating the U.S. Capitol attack would be too ‘partisan.’
By Josh Israel - October 05, 2021
Some Republicans now criticizing Biden for the Taliban’s takeover previously praised the Trump administration for its plan to swiftly remove US support from the region.
By Emily Singer - August 16, 2021
Sens. Joni Ernst and Roger Marshall want to ban nonexistent ‘meatless Mondays’ at federal agency cafeterias.
By Josh Israel - April 19, 2021
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan is overwhelmingly popular, even among GOP voters.
By Josh Israel - March 03, 2021
‘We are confident in the fairness and accuracy of Iowa’s election system,’ say Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst.
By Donna Provencher - December 03, 2020
In fact, Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock said the opposite of what Ernst claimed they did.
By Amy Lieu - November 25, 2020
The Iowa Republican senator says the newest Supreme Court justice will stop environmental protections, gun safety laws, and ‘anarchist’ protesters.
By Josh Israel - October 28, 2020
The ad features a former GOP politician who defended racial profiling in law enforcement.
By Josh Israel - October 26, 2020
And Sen. Ernst’s reelection prospects look more bleak than ever.
By Donna Provencher - October 16, 2020
The Iowa Republican senator has trailed Democratic businesswoman Theresa Greenfield in every major poll since early August.
By Josh Israel - October 15, 2020
In reality, she’s voted multiple times to get rid of those protections.
By Josh Israel - October 08, 2020
Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey joins North Carolina’s Richard Burr in abandoning swing-state seats in 2022.
By Josh Israel - October 05, 2020
The Iowa senator opposed letting Trump fill an election-year vacancy as recently as 2018.
By Josh Israel - September 29, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett is against abortion rights and criticized the decision upholding the Affordable Care Act. But Senate Republicans are lying about her stances as they rush to confirm her.
By Emily Singer - September 29, 2020
Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst suggested that the public wants the Senate to rush through a Trump nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
By Josh Israel - September 25, 2020
Ernst also continues to push the debunked claim that mental illness is the cause of gun violence.
By Josh Israel - September 22, 2020
Republican senators say they will vote for Trump’s nominee, no matter who it is or what that person believes.
By Emily Singer - September 22, 2020
Ernst gave credence to a QAnon-pushed conspiracy theory that falsely claims the coronavirus death toll is just 10,000.
By Emily Singer - September 02, 2020
Joni Ernst is mad that her Democratic opponent posted a selfie with her dog.
By Josh Israel - July 31, 2020
Few Republicans have spoken out, but the ones who have say the election will not be moved — despite Trump’s claims.
By Emily Singer - July 30, 2020
Multiple Republican bills aim to cut funding to cities and states over racial justice protests.
By Emily Singer - July 22, 2020
In 2016, Joni Ernst demanded that the ‘people’ have a ‘voice’ in who got to fill the empty Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
By Josh Israel - July 17, 2020
‘We’re trying to ferret those people out.’
By Dan Desai Martin - July 10, 2020
Republican senators are taking credit for a provision they tried to strip out of the latest coronavirus stimulus package.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 30, 2020
Iowa’s Des Moines Register warned Sen. Joni Ernst’s that voters might remember her commens ‘when they go to the polls in November to decide whether she deserves a second term.’
By Dan Desai Martin - January 28, 2020
Sen. Joni Ernst said the quiet part out loud when she suggested the point of Trump’s obsession with ‘corruption’ was about hurting Joe Biden.
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