Ocasio-Cortez mocks GOP’s sad videos: They’re ‘scared of dancing women’
After the NRA released two weird videos of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing, she had things to say.
By Oliver Willis - February 28, 2019After the NRA released two weird videos of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing, she had things to say.
By Oliver Willis - February 28, 2019The House will vote on widely popular universal background checks this week, but Trump has already threatened to veto it.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 26, 2019An article in the NRA’s magazine features an image of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi alongside former Rep. Gabby Giffords — who resigned from Congress after she was shot in the head — with the headline ‘Target Practice.’
By Emily Singer - February 25, 2019He tried to pretend that guns have nothing to do with school shootings.
By Oliver Willis - February 14, 2019The NRA donated to Republicans, and in exchange they got their lies repeated by members of Congress.
By Oliver Willis - February 11, 2019Democrats aren’t afraid to take on the gun lobby.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 09, 2019Americans who want gun safety can rejoice: The NRA had a really horrific year.
By Oliver Willis - December 27, 2018The NRA is using troop deployments at the border to sell memberships. Veterans are slamming them for it.
By Oliver Willis - December 14, 2018Maria Butina pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent years after she openly bragged about it.
By Oliver Willis - December 13, 2018Maria Butina, a lifetime NRA member arrested on charges of being a Russian spy, wants to withdraw her not guilty plea.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 10, 2018The NRA’s money troubles mean no more coffee for its employees. It’s been a very bad year for them.
By Oliver Willis - November 15, 2018The NRA tried to shut down doctors pushing for gun safety. It backfired and the gun extremists have been publicly shamed for their actions for a week and counting.
By Oliver Willis - November 14, 2018The NRA has been a powerful force in elections. But on Tuesday, NRA-backed candidates who have refused to support gun safety went down in humiliating defeat.
By Oliver Willis - November 09, 2018Republican Marsha Blackburn’s first concern, after a dozen people were murdered, is protecting unfettered access to guns.
By Eric Boehlert - November 08, 2018The seat once occupied by Newt Gingrich will now be held by progressive gun safety advocate Lucy McBath.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 08, 2018Andrew Gillum’s strong stance against the NRA and the racially biased ‘Stand Your Ground’ law is scaring right-wingers enough to launch a pathetic last-minute smear campaign against the Democratic nominee.
By Oliver Willis - November 06, 2018The Republican Party was forced to drop a completely tone-deaf rally appearance by the NRA president — but only after parents pushed back.
By Oliver Willis - November 05, 2018Bob Stefanowski thinks strong gun laws are ‘a bad thing.’
By Bernie Dennler III - November 05, 2018In Minnesota, NRA ally Sarah Anderson introduced a pair of gun safety bills she knew would never pass — and now she is demanding credit for her election-year stunt.
By Oliver Willis - October 25, 2018Florida state Rep. Manny Diaz keeps voting to put more and more guns in schools.
By Oliver Willis - October 19, 2018Minnesota moms are on the ground working to oust Sarah Anderson, who has voted for the NRA’s agenda for years.
By Oliver Willis - October 18, 2018Minnesota state Rep. Sarah Anderson sponsored doomed gun-safety bills instead of the real reform voters in her state wanted.
By Oliver Willis - October 17, 2018Florida Rep. Manny Diaz voted to kill a proposed ban on assault weapons, less than a week after the mass shooting in Parkland killed 17 students and staff members in his own state.
By Oliver Willis - October 17, 2018Gun safety used to be a liability for Democrats in Colorado. Now it could be their greatest strength.
By Eric Boehlert - October 16, 2018Amid huge deficits, the NRA has pulled back from Republican campaigns.
By Eric Boehlert - October 03, 2018The NRA broke the bank helping the GOP in 2016. Now it might not be able to recover.
By Eric Boehlert - September 20, 2018Republican Matt Rosendale may have violated campaign finance law by illegally coordinating with the NRA. And he just blurted it out.
By Caroline Orr - September 14, 2018NRA poster boy Rick Scott blamed everything he could think of — except guns — for the latest mass shootings in his state.
By Eric Boehlert - August 27, 2018Betsy DeVos is looking for a way to get guns into schools for Trump, and she wants to use taxpayer funding to do it.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 23, 2018Top Democrats want to know if national security adviser John Bolton disclosed his work with alleged Russian spy Maria Butina on his security clearance application.
By Caroline Orr - August 20, 2018