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Three years ago today, House Republicans passed the AHCA: their disastrous health care bill that would have gutted protections for 135 million Americans with pre-existing conditions, imposed an age tax, and made health care less accessible and more expensive for the American people. Their legislation also would have put over 15 million Americans who rely on Medicaid […]

Mike Gula, a former consultant to Congressman Rodney Davis who “set the Republican operative world ablaze” after leaving his fundraising firm to “capitalize on the coronavirus response,” is under scrutiny once again after his new firm “failed to deliver masks and ventilators as promised” as part of a $12.5 million PPE contract and after overcharging […]

DCCC spokesman Avery Jaffe issued the following statement in response to Monday’s debate between the Republican candidates for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District: “Today’s debate was a trainwreck for far-right radical Karen Handel, who doubled down on her support for Governor Kemp’s reckless coronavirus actions opposed by the vast majority of Georgians. Handel was challenged by […]

Mike Gula, a former consultant to Congressman Scott Perry who “set the Republican operative world ablaze” after leaving his fundraising firm to “capitalize on the coronavirus response,” is under scrutiny once again after his new firm “failed to deliver masks and ventilators as promised” as part of a $12.5 million PPE contract and after overcharging […]

Last week, failed former Congressman and Trump Congressional lackey David Valadao proved himself, yet again, a hypocrite and untrustworthy. While Valadao paid lip service to immigrants and Central Valley farm labor, his record and actions says everything Central Valley voters need to know. Last year, Valadao walked out on a $325,000 settlement he agreed to […]

Republican attacks on ACA take center stage during COVID-19 While millions of Americans face the impacts of COVID-19 — some uninsured or underinsured — and nearly 30 million Americans find themselves unemployed, Washington Republicans continue their never-ending assault on Americans’ health care. Here is what the AP reported over the weekend: COVID-19 could have stamped a […]

Friday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, and South Carolina Democratic Party filed suit in a U.S. Federal Court in Columbia, South Carolina seeking to remove four restrictive and unconstitutional barriers to accessing an absentee mail-in ballot. The federal suit filed today follows a South Carolina Supreme Court lawsuit Democrats filed in April. […]

House Republicans voted against oversight of COVID-19 funds meant to help small businesses The Washington Post reports that large corporations pocketed more than $1 billion of federal funding meant to help small businesses. But House Republicans are still fighting against providing oversight to ensure the funding goes to the mom and pop businesses hit hardest […]

Republicans Admit: The More Malliotakis Debates The Issues, The More Likely She’ll Lose Nicole Malliotakis wants to skate through the primary by refusing to debate fellow Republican Joe Caldarera, and unfortunately for Washington’s handpicked candidate, local Republicans have said the quiet part out loud. Turns out, the more Malliotakis debates the issues, the more damage […]

GOP megadonor Kathaleen Wall will serve as a potential disease vector at four campaign stops across TX-22 today Residents of Texas’ toss-up 22nd Congressional District should keep a wider-than-usual berth from Republican megadonor Kathaleen Wall today. In spite of the overwhelming majority of Texans supporting commonsense stay-at-home measures, the TX-22 GOP congressional candidate will act […]