GOP senator: Migrants cause ‘environmental crisis’ at border by ‘trampling’ plants
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is rated one of the most anti-environmental lawmakers in the country.
By Oliver Willis - April 01, 2021Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is rated one of the most anti-environmental lawmakers in the country.
By Oliver Willis - April 01, 2021Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Lance Gooden claim their new legislation addresses child trafficking. History shows it’s rooted in racism.
By Amy Lieu - March 25, 2021Republican lawmakers are upset that the vice president isn’t buying into fearmongering rhetoric about a ‘crisis’ at the U.S.-Mexico border.
By Amy Lieu - March 23, 2021Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb has often appeared on Fox News and complained about immigrants.
By Oliver Willis - March 22, 2021Transgender women often experience sexual violence in prison, experts say, but Sen. Marsha Blackburn didn’t want to talk about that.
By Casey Quinlan - March 18, 2021The House Republican Study Committee urged party members to use the term and blame it on President Biden.
By Oliver Willis - March 09, 2021President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan is overwhelmingly popular, even among GOP voters.
By Josh Israel - March 03, 2021By narrowing the definition of ’employee,’ Republicans would leave a lot of American workers without labor protections.
By Donna Provencher - March 02, 2021A new poll shows 76% of registered voters support President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief bill.
By Emily Singer - February 25, 2021‘Democrats want a week of political theater,’ charged Sen. Ted Cruz.
By Donna Provencher - February 10, 2021The legendary baseball player himself was widely respected for his civil rights activism.
By Donna Provencher - February 04, 2021A number of lawmakers who pushed baseless lies to block Joe Biden’s victory are now calling for the violence to stop.
By Josh Israel - January 06, 2021‘One of the things I think that everyone has said is that this call was not a helpful call.’
By Oliver Willis - January 04, 2021‘I didn’t hear Sen. Paul worry about the deficit when he voted to give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1% & large corporations,’ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tweeted.
By Donna Provencher - December 22, 2020They’re making empty promises of recounts that won’t change the facts.
By Emily Singer - November 10, 2020Half the donations the Trump campaign is collecting right now for an election recount are actually going to pay off his debt.
By Donna Provencher - November 06, 2020Republicans have been quick to condemn antifa as chaos erupts at various protests across the country, despite scant evidence to support their claims.
By Emily Singer - June 04, 2020Marsha Blackburn is following the GOP’s playbook in blaming China for the coronavirus.
By Josh Israel - April 30, 2020More than 2,300 Americans have died from the coronavirus.
By Oliver Willis - March 30, 2020Sen. Marsha Blackburn used a racist term this week to describe the coronavirus, even after repeated warnings from experts.
By Josh Israel - March 18, 2020The Tennessee lawmaker is under fire for smearing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a top National Security Council adviser, once again.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 24, 2020Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is complaining that Democratic colleagues running for president against Trump cannot be ‘impartial’ when it comes to his alleged high crimes and misdemeanors.
By Josh Israel - January 17, 2020Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn criticized China for ‘religious persecution’ and ‘covering up the mass violation of basic human rights.’
By Josh Israel - January 02, 2020Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn, a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, criticized Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman this week, after he testified in a public impeachment hearing.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 22, 2019The acting White House chief of staff admitted to a quid pro quo over Ukraine funding Thursday, but GOP members of Congress are still fighting against impeachment.
By Josh Israel - October 17, 2019This comes right after Trump said he wouldn’t report foreign interference if it happened again.
By Emily Singer - June 13, 2019In a desperate attempt to solve an optics problem, Republicans cave, allowing women on the Judiciary Committee for the first time ever.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 03, 2019Republican Marsha Blackburn’s first concern, after a dozen people were murdered, is protecting unfettered access to guns.
By Eric Boehlert - November 08, 2018Republicans compared Marsha Blackburn, their own Senate nominee in Tennessee, to notorious pedophile Roy Moore.
By Oliver Willis - October 05, 2018Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn hailed the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act for helping the military, but she didn’t bother showing up for the final vote that would ensure its passage.
By Oliver Willis - August 14, 2018