House Speaker John Boehner, who is presiding over the least effective and most dysfunctional Congress ever, is trying to ride to the rescue of Iowa’s struggling Republicans on Sunday and Monday, according to The Hill.   Here’s a recap of who he’s coming to bail out: Washington insider David Young enters the final stretch with […]

When it comes to critical issues like national security and keeping good jobs, Springfield Insider Mike Bost can’t get his facts right. When he tried – and failed – to relate to hardworking families this week, Bost claimed that he is concerned about steel imports from North Korea. Only problem? We don’t import steel from […]

On today’s Talk Line With Hoppy Kercheval, Alex “Maryland” Mooney showed once against that’s he’s a carpet-bagging, career politician who will say anything to help himself – even if it means lying about his positions on the issues that matter to West Virginians. From wanting to privatize Social Security and forcing seniors to gamble their […]

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee today released two new television ads in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District: “Cuts” and “Idle.” Both ads will begin running today and show how McSally would hurt middle class families. The spots zero in on Martha McSally’s reckless agenda: opposing efforts to make college more affordable, ending the federal student loan […]

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching a new television ad in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, using Rod Blum’s own words as a newspaper columnist to outline how millionaire Blum wants to raise the retirement age and privatize seniors’ hard-earned Social Security and gamble it on Wall Street. The ad begins running this week.   […]

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching a new television ad in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, highlighting how Mariannette Miller-Meeks partnered with a company that outsourced hundreds of jobs overseas to India and supports billions of dollars in tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas, even while Iowa has lost more than 20,000 jobs […]

This morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Chairman Steve Israel highlighted how the DCCC’s grassroots supporters are helping to keep races competitive in a tough midterm environment. Chairman Israel said: “Last night Sheldon Adelson wrote a $5 million check to John Boehner’s super PAC. It’s tough to counter that. You know how we do it? We […]

For those getting up to speed on West Virginia’s Second Congressional District, here’s what you need to know about Alex “Maryland” Mooney: he’s a carpet-bagging, career politician despised by members of his own party, whose hometown paper wrote that the driving ambition behind his congressional race is his own “driving ambition.” In fact, the conservative […]

The fallout continues for Congressman Lee Terry and his Washington Republican allies, as Congressman Terry continues to stand by the ugly, fear-mongering ad that even other Republicans are decrying as “exactly the opposite” of what the campaign should be doing. “Congressman Terry’s willingness to stand by and defend the most notorious campaign ad in decades […]

After news broke that Congressman Steve Southerland didn’t read the Violence Against Women Act before he voted against it, we shared this video of Congressman Southerland saying “People sent me there to read bills. People sent me there to study the issues.” Now, here’s another video exposing more of Congressman Southerland’s hypocrisy, in which he […]