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McCarthy Blames Democrats For Debt, While GOP Policies Increase It
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy blamed the $31 trillion national debt for recent inflation in an address on Monday and demanded "sensible, responsible solutions to our growing national debt," which he called "the greatest threat to our future." → Read More
As Campaign Falters, New Hampshire GOP Senate Nominee Flip-Flops On Social Security
Don Bolduc has previously called for massive cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. New Hampshire Senate Republican nominee Don Bolduc is trying soften his pitch to voters while still saying he would privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. → Read More
As Campaign Falters, New Hampshire GOP Senate Nominee Flip-Flops On Social Security
Don Bolduc has previously called for massive cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. New Hampshire Senate Republican nominee Don Bolduc is trying soften his pitch to voters while still saying he would privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. → Read More
Flip Flop: Election Denier Bolduc Now Says Biden Is 'Legitimate President'
The letter Bolduc signed in May 2021 also said that the Biden administration had "launched a full-blown assault on our Constitutional rights in a dictatorial manner, bypassing the Congress, with more than 50 Executive Orders quickly signed, many reversing the previous Administration's effective poli... → Read More
Flip Flop: Election Denier Bolduc Now Says Biden Is 'Legitimate President'
New Hampshire Republican Senate nominee Don Bolduc said just last month that Donald Trump really won the 2020 presidential election. Two days after winning the New Hampshire Republican Senate nomination, Don Bolduc has already done a complete flip-flop on → Read More
New Hampshire GOP Picks Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorist Bolduc For Senate
Bolduc, supporter of multiple conspiracy theories and extremist policies, will face incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) in November. Republicans in New Hampshire have nominated Don Bolduc, a far-right politician and former brigadier general of the Army → Read More
GOP Senate Fundraiser Hosted By Donors Who Defended Rape
In 2013, Rabois resigned from his chief operating officer position at Square Inc., after accusations of sexual harassment. Though he denied the allegations, he admitted in an open letter that he had a "physical relationship" with an employee even after he recruited him to join the company staff, whi... → Read More
GOP Senate Fundraiser Hosted By Donors Who Defended Rape
The Miami event is to be hosted by controversial tech executives Keith Rabois and David Sacks, longtime associates of conservative billionaire Peter Thiel. A pair of wealthy tech industry donors with a history of writing rape apologia are set to host a major fundraiser for Senate Republicans → Read More
GOP Senate Fundraiser Hosted By Donors Who Defended Rape
Rabois and Sacks both have longstanding connections to white nationalist-linked PayPal's founder Peter Thiel, dating back to their time attending Stanford University together in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Thiel has already largely bankrolled the campaigns of Vance and Masters, both who formerly... → Read More
Flip-Flopping Phony: Now J.D. Vance Says There's No Climate Crisis
At DePaul University's Chicago Ideas festival in October 2019, he observed:I think that the idea that we're gonna bring back hundreds of thousands of coal jobs in Appalachia is probably, almost certainly, in fact, not true, that the big reason that coal has become so much less of a significant emplo... → Read More
Flip-Flopping Phony: Now J.D. Vance Says There's No Climate Crisis
But it appears that Ohio workers will actually benefit from the Democratic majority's clean energy investments: The Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included billions of dollars to support electric vehicle-related manufacturing in the Unit... → Read More
North Carolina GOP Senate Nominee Addresses Theocratic Hate Group
North Carolina Republicans Ted Budd, the GOP Senate nominee, and Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson were featured speakers at an event sponsored by the right-wing anti-LGBTQ American Renewal Project, whose purpose is to elect pastors to political office. → Read More
North Carolina GOP Senate Nominee Addresses Theocratic Hate Group
North Carolina Republicans Ted Budd, the GOP Senate nominee, and Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson were featured speakers at an event sponsored by the right-wing anti-LGBTQ American Renewal Project, whose purpose is to elect pastors to political office. → Read More
Kelley Dupps, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Votes in Arizona, said in a statement:
This desperate move by the Masters campaign is sad but unsurprising. They've made the calculations and know that his true views on abortion and reproductive freedom are deeply out-ot-touch with Arizonans and will cost him the election. Instead of doubling down on his problematic and dangerous record... → Read More
New Hampshire GOP Candidates Attack Medicare As 'A Failure'
'It's not a legitimate role of government to be involved in health care in any way,' said New Hampshire GOP Senate candidate Bruce Fenton. Two New Hampshire Republicans seeking their party's nomination to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan → Read More
McConnell Admits There's 'Very Little' Voter Fraud In America's 'Solid' Democracy
The Senate minority leader once scolded Democrats for not taking the nonexistent issue seriously enough. On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell admitted that election fraud is not the major concern that he and his party have made it out to be. → Read More
Ron Johnson Hits Trump For 'Failure' To Approve Quack COVID Treatment
Wisconsin Republican incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson says he didn't speak out sooner because he didn't want to hurt former President Donald Trump's reelection chances. Sen. Ron Johnson said in an interview on Thursday with the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist host of a podcast → Read More
Johnson Admits He Wants A Federal Abortion Ban
The Wisconsin Republican senator laid out a confusing and contradictory plan to roll back abortion rights nationally. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) suggested Tuesday that after states decide what sort of abortion restrictions to adopt, Congress should add national restrictions. → Read More
Johnson Admits He Wants A Federal Abortion Ban
The Wisconsin Republican senator laid out a confusing and contradictory plan to roll back abortion rights nationally. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) suggested Tuesday that after states decide what sort of abortion restrictions to adopt, Congress should add national restrictions. → Read More
Johnson Admits He Wants A Federal Abortion Ban
The Wisconsin Republican senator laid out a confusing and contradictory plan to roll back abortion rights nationally. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) suggested Tuesday that after states decide what sort of abortion restrictions to adopt, Congress should add national restrictions. → Read More