Hometown papers demand expulsion of GOP lawmakers who stoked insurrection
Editorial boards around the country are responding to last week’s deadly coup attempt.
By Josh Israel - January 11, 2021Editorial boards around the country are responding to last week’s deadly coup attempt.
By Josh Israel - January 11, 2021A section of the 14th Amendment bars anyone who has ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion’ against the United States from holding federal office.
By Emily Singer - January 11, 2021GOP lawmakers who supported Trump’s attempt to overturn the election are dodging accountability for their own roles in spurring Wednesday’s attack on the Capitol.
By Josh Israel - January 08, 2021The number of Democrats saying Trump must be impeached and removed for inciting a violent insurrection at the Capitol is growing by the minute.
By Emily Singer - January 08, 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‘I need your help in this fight to push back against the radical left to get our message out,’ Cruz said in the fundraising text.
By Emily Singer - January 06, 2021Video shows Trump supporters clashing with cops at the Capitol as Republicans inside the building wage a coup attempt.
By Emily Singer - January 06, 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, 2020Twitter continues to label Donald Trump’s tweets for containing misleading and false information.
By Donna Provencher - December 17, 2020Masks are ‘an oppressive violation of my rights,’ Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted Tuesday.
By Donna Provencher - December 16, 2020Trump, of course, has said he’ll never concede.
By Josh Israel - December 10, 2020Nine of the attendees support overturning the results in four states President-elect Joe Biden won.
By Emily Singer - December 10, 2020More than two-dozen GOP lawmakers want a special counsel to investigate ‘election irregularities’ — which do not exist.
By Emily Singer - December 09, 2020The GOP’s undemocratic attempt to steal the election was dealt death blows from state and federal courts on Tuesday.
By Emily Singer - December 09, 2020‘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, 2020The Justice Department ‘should schedule execution dates for every single eligible death row inmate,’ Cruz wrote on Wednesday.
By Donna Provencher - December 02, 2020Republican senators are saying mean tweets posted by a Biden nominee disqualify her, but they accept mean things Donald Trump has tweeted about them.
By Emily Singer - December 02, 2020GOP politicians claim top infectious diseases specialist Anthony Fauci said schools should have stayed open during the pandemic. He never said that.
By Donna Provencher - December 01, 2020The Democratic-led House has passed multiple relief bills, while the Republican-led Senate has passed none.
By Emily Singer - December 01, 2020Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accuses the Democratic Party of being the ‘party of the rich,’ but voting patterns don’t back him up.
By Donna Provencher - December 01, 2020It’s not true, but that’s not stopping him from spinning lies about COVID precautions.
By Donna Provencher - November 24, 2020He says he ‘underestimated’ the officials trying to keep people safe from the virus.
By Josh Israel - November 24, 2020GOP lawmakers insist that mask mandates, social distancing, and other virus safety measures don’t work.
By Donna Provencher - November 17, 2020Trump still lost, though.
By Emily Singer - November 09, 2020Donald Trump Jr. recently called on ‘GOP hopefuls’ to help his dad steal the election.
By Daniel Boguslaw - November 06, 2020The Texas senator has expressed scorn for the virus safety measure since the beginning of the pandemic.
By Donna Provencher - October 15, 2020But they won’t act on coronavirus relief.
By Emily Singer - October 15, 2020There were some real doozies.
By Donna Provencher - October 14, 2020Trump’s biggest fans are sticking by him after a disastrous debate performance.
By Tana Ganeva - October 01, 2020MJ Hegar’s tattoos conceal the scars from shrapnel wounds sustained during her service in Afghanistan as an Air Force helicopter pilot.
By Donna Provencher - September 24, 2020