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This afternoon DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos sent another letter to NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer asking that he join her in signing a pledge to not use hacked or stolen information in the 2020 election cycle. This letter is a follow-up, six months later, to Chairwoman Bustos signing this same pledge in April of 2019. Unfortunately, […]

Republican Hopefuls Pounce As Malliotakis’ Lackadaisical Campaign Limps Along  The Republican primary in New York’s 11th District is heating up, and that can’t make Washington Republicans happy about their handpicked candidate. Another candidate, Joe Caldarera, jumped into the already crowded field today after Nicole Malliotakis was unable to secure endorsements from local elected officials, and […]

National Media Notices Zeldin’s Bizarre Obsession With Protecting Trump in Ongoing Ukraine Scandal In a desperate attempt to curry favor with Donald Trump, vulnerable Republican Lee Zeldin, nervous about holding his seat, is positioning himself as the President’s most staunch defender and local and national press is noticing. While Zeldin’s star is rising on the […]

Politico’s Illinois Playbook reports this morning that Republicans are nudging Illinois State Senator Jim Oberweis to drop his bid in Illinois’s 14th Congressional District and instead run in Florida’s 19th… which would be convenient because it’s where Oberweis actually lives. Oberweis has no shortage of connections to the Sunshine State: he claims his expensive condo […]

Shocking new testimony confirms Trump held up military aid in an attempt to get dirt on his political rival — House GOP’s only response is stunts On Tuesday, the top U.S. envoy to Ukraine gave testimony that was the clearest confirmation of the initial whistleblower complaint and its bombshell details of President Trump’s abuse of […]

As House Democrats advance a commonsense plan to lower prescription drug prices, Washington Republicans side with big drug companies Late last night, the Ways and Means Committee passed the “Elijah Eugene Cummings Lower Drug Prices Now Act” (H.R. 3) to lower the cost of prescription drugs for families. Specifically, the bill allows Medicare to negotiate with drug companies for lower prescription drug prices […]

Nunes Files Lawsuits In An Effort To Shut Down Criticism, Punish His Antagonists And Prove His Worth to Trump World In case you missed it over the weekend, the victims of Rep. Devin Nunes’s baseless and frivolous lawsuits spoke up on his continued efforts to weaponize the American legal system In order to shut down […]

After Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen announced his retirement, DCCC spokesman Avery Jaffe issued the following statement: “Behind closed doors, Speaker Bonnen told the truth about Republicans’ plight: Donald Trump is absolutely toxic for them in the suburbs. Dumping Bonnen won’t do anything to change the truth he warned his fellow Republicans about in secret: […]

Stefanik Staffer Caught Boosting Pro-Trump Group With Documented Threats Toward Local Press Here we go again… After having a rough summer, North Country constituents and local papers continue to express serious concerns with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. In August, the Glen Falls Post-Star called Stefanik out for having the worst town hall record of all her New […]

Builds $12.4 million COH advantage Late Sunday, the NRCC quietly posted their September fundraising totals, confirming that the DCCC had, once again, outraised them handily: $12.9 million to $7.8 million in September alone. With September in the books, the DCCC has now outraised the NRCC in three straight quarters and nine straight month of 2019, […]