Ron Johnson praises anti-vaxxer who compared virus precautions to the Holocaust
The Wisconsin Republican senator has said he has no plans to get the COVID vaccine himself.
By Emily Singer - August 02, 2021The Wisconsin Republican senator has said he has no plans to get the COVID vaccine himself.
By Emily Singer - August 02, 2021Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone said GOP attempts to deny reality makes his ability to heal after the riot on Jan. 6 ‘harder and more painful.’
By Emily Singer - July 27, 2021Some members of the group of Republican doctors are still spreading misinformation, however.
By Emily Singer - July 21, 2021The Wisconsin Republican is mad that CNN caught him calling climate science ‘bullshit.’
By Josh Israel - July 07, 2021GOP Sen. Ron Johnson has repeatedly promoted myths and falsehoods about COVID-19.
By Oliver Willis - June 28, 2021Both Juneteenth and MLK Day endured questions from lawmakers of whether the costs to taxpayers were worth it.
By Josh Axelrod - June 16, 2021As the mask mandate is lifted for those who are vaccinated, CNN reports that a large chunk of Republicans in Congress have yet to receive their shots.
By Emily Singer - May 14, 2021The Republican senator from Wisconsin recently gave an interview to a notorious anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist.
By Oliver Willis - May 10, 2021The Republican senator joined up with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was recently banned from Instagram for promoting COVID-19 vaccine lies.
By Oliver Willis - April 23, 2021The Wisconsin Republican is the latest GOP elected official to push the white supremacist theory that Democrats want to bring immigrants to the country to amass power.
By Emily Singer - April 16, 2021Republicans are desperately looking for a way to turn the public against President Joe Biden.
By Emily Singer - April 15, 2021GOP lawmakers are revamping the xenophobic narrative they employed ahead of the 2018 midterms.
By Amy Lieu - April 01, 2021The media has covered GOP claims of a crisis at the southern border extensively.
By Amy Lieu - March 31, 2021‘They don’t like anybody who’s willing to spout the truth,’ the Wisconsin Republican senator said.
By Oliver Willis - March 15, 2021‘The challenge for Republicans will be the race to the bottom in the Republican primaries.’
By Associated Press - March 10, 2021In 2016, the Wisconsin Republican was outraged by ‘political games’ as Democrats demanded more funding for the Flint water crisis in appropriations legislation.
By Josh Israel - March 05, 2021Ron Johnson’s effort to drag out passage of the popular bill failed, as senators now have less time to debate it.
By Emily Singer - March 05, 2021Sen. Ron Johnson threatened to make Democrats ‘read their 600- to 700-page bill’ during debate in the Senate.
By Josh Israel - March 04, 2021The new COVID-19 relief bill passed in the House late on Wednesday despite Johnson’s protests.
By Oliver Willis - March 04, 2021Republicans in Congress have been attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over security measures put in place after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
By Oliver Willis - February 25, 2021Ron Johnson suggested Capitol Police officers instigated the Jan. 6 insurrection — a blatant lie to try to absolve Donald Trump of culpability in the deadly attack.
By Emily Singer - February 23, 2021His testimony came as a GOP lawmaker falsely claimed the insurrectionists weren’t armed.
By Emily Singer - February 23, 2021Mitch McConnell has just a 19% approval rating after his vote to acquit Donald Trump on a technicality of his own making.
By Emily Singer - February 16, 2021Multiple guns, Molotov cocktails, a crossbow, smoke bombs, and a stun gun were all confiscated from members of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol.
By Oliver Willis - February 15, 2021At a confirmation hearing on Tuesday, GOP senators condemned the tone of tweets sent by Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
By Emily Singer - February 09, 2021Republicans in Congress are calling President Joe Biden’s immigration policies ‘lawless.’
By Casey Quinlan - February 05, 2021Ron Johnson is the latest Republican to equate tech companies restricting posted content with government censorship of conservative views.
By Josh Israel - February 03, 2021Senate Republicans cry partisanship at the idea that Democrats will use the same parliamentary procedures they did.
By Josh Israel - February 02, 2021Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, and Ron Johnson have shown little interest in one measure that has been demonstrated to reduce the number of mass shootings: gun law reform.
By Donna Provencher - February 01, 2021A total of 147 Republicans voted against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.
By Oliver Willis - January 27, 2021