Checking on Young Kim, who’s been challenged by financial backer Elon Musk in a truly wild turn of events. FEC data shows that Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. PAC has contributed $12,500 to Kim’s campaigns.  Now, he’s slamming Kim for her YES vote on the GOP’s “disgusting abomination” of a budget bill, that will drive up the […]

Checking on Nick Begich, who’s been challenged by one of his biggest financial backers – Elon Musk – in a truly wild turn of events. To date, Begich’s campaigns have received over $437,000 in outside spending from Musk’s AMERICA PAC and $2,500 in contributions from Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. PAC. To do the math, that brings us to over […]

Checking on Ken Calvert, who’s been challenged by one of his biggest financial backers – Elon Musk – in a truly wild turn of events. To date, Calvert has received: Over $916,000 in outside spending from Musk’s AMERICA PAC $319,000 in individual contributions from Elon Musk ($310,700 to Calvert’s Victory fund was Musk’s largest ever individual contribution to […]

NY-17 voters chanted “Not a dime. Not a dollar. No more cuts, from Mike Lawler” More than 100 local labor and community leaders in NY-17 came out this past weekend in protest of Mike Lawler after he cast the deciding vote for Republicans’ Tax Scam that guts Medicaid and SNAP while handing massive tax breaks to […]

“Ottumwa Job Corps, which serves 33 counties, has been one of the highest-performing in the country, consistently in the top five in terms of job placement after leaving the program.” This week, the Trump administration announced the closure of the Ottumwa Job Corps: a program that provides vocational training and apprenticeship programs. The Ottumwa Jobs […]

New reporting highlights how Mariannette Miller-Meeks is further twisting herself into a pretzel to defend her vote to slash Medicaid and kick nearly 22,000 people in IA-01 off their health insurance. Southeast Iowa Union reported that Miller-Meeks “said the funding package’s reductions to another program — Medicaid — were necessary,” and said these cuts were “perfectly reasonable.” […]

Today, Sabato’s Crystal Ball announced that it is shifting its predictions for Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District towards Democrats.  This announcement follows House Republicans’ passage of massive cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs that support Kentucky’s working families. The Republican Tax Scam would kick nearly 24,000 people in KY-06 off of their health care, threaten SNAP access for more than […]

New polling shows Trump’s approval with Latino voters – particularly independents – has precipitously dropped as the economy implodes, fears of a recession grow, and Republicans in Congress prepare to enact the largest cut to Medicaid and food assistance in American history. What Republicans are reading:  An overwhelming majority of Latino voters – 58% – disapprove of Trump’s […]

Elon Musk is right. The GOP’s Tax Scam that Zach Nunn was the deciding vote to pass would balloon the national debt to levels not seen in decades, jeopardize health care for more than 24,000 people across IA-03, decimate food access for more than 31,000 IA-03 households, and give massive tax breaks to the ultra-rich and multinational corporations. DCCC […]

Elon Musk is right. The GOP’s Tax Scam that Mariannette Miller-Meeks was the deciding vote to pass would balloon the national debt to levels not seen in decades, jeopardize health care for nearly 22,000 people across IA-01, decimate food access for nearly 29,000 households across IA-01, and give massive tax breaks to the ultra-rich and multinational corporations. DCCC Spokesperson […]