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Scott Perry just can’t help himself. Just two days after GOP leader Kevin McCarthy said he didn’t expect any GOP members to attend the right-wing “Justice for J6” rally this weekend, Scott Perry showed up for the cause. This afternoon, Vice reported Perry told the right-wing television station Newsmax that many who stormed the Capitol were peaceful and that those facing […]

Derrick Van Orden previously lied and tried to cover up that he was “in a restricted area of Capitol grounds while the mob of Trump supporters were storming and entering the building“ As fence barriers go up on Capitol grounds in preparation for another possible far-right extremist rally — insurrectionist GOP candidate Derrick Van Orden must tell Wisconsinites whether he’s […]

It hasn’t even been a year since a violent crowd of right-wing extremists attempted a historic and unprecedented insurrection that left five dead and 140 police officers injured. And we continue to push forward with the nation’s recovery from COVID even as Republicans gripe about vaccines and masks, spreading misinformation that’s putting people in hospitals. But […]

GOP Reps. Gonzalez, Katko Call Trump “Cancer” and “Bad News” for Party   Two weeks ago, the DCCC asked Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick if he supports former President Trump — now fellow faux moderate Republicans like Brian Fitzpatrick’s are asking the same questions.     Last night, former rising Republican star Rep. Anthony Gonzalez announced his retirement from […]

Does Chabot sympathize with Anthony Gonzalez’s clear-eyed views and warnings about today’s GOP or will he continue quietly cowing to Trump? Last night, former rising Republican star Rep. Anthony Gonzalez announced his retirement from Congress, calling Trump a “cancer for the country.” Gonzalez lamented that Republicans “learned the wrong lessons” from the 2020 election and […]

Miller-Meeks under scrutiny after disastrous week of back-to-back false fact checks and an editorial from her hometown paper calling out her “hyper-partisanship” and lies Mariannette Miller-Meeks is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week as she comes under scrutiny across Southeast Iowa for her extremism and lies. First, Miller-Meeks took heat after sharing a […]

Do supposed champions of democracy Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar agree with their colleague’s clear-eyed views and warnings about today’s GOP or will they continue sycophantically cowing to Trump? Last night, former rising Republican star Rep. Anthony Gonzalez announced his retirement from Congress, calling Trump a “cancer for the country.” Gonzalez lamented that Republicans […]

REDXIT: Gonzalez Calls Republicans’ Dangerous, Deadly, and Divisive Politics “Not Something I’m Going To Be A Part Of” Ohio GOP Congressman Anthony Gonzalez, one of only 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump for inciting a deadly insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th, is dashing for the unhinged doors of the […]

Does Kean Jr. Still Want Support of This Extremist? Tom Kean Jr. endorsers are causing Tom Kean Jr. problems. This week, Kean Jr. endorser Rep. Elise Stefanik was caught pushing white nationalist conspiracy theories. The Washington Post reported Stefanik’s fundraising ads echoed the white supremacist replacement theory that Democrats are seeking to “replace White citizens with non-White immigrants.” After she endorsed him, […]

Stefanik promotes racist “replacement theory” in latest ad to start Hispanic Heritage Month House Republican Conference Chair and head of GOP messaging Elise Stefanik is pushing a new party line in a set of Facebook ads whose language “echoes that of far-right commentators, including Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, who have advanced a ‘replacement theory’ that […]