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Sabato’s Crystal Ball and Cook Political Report shift the Houston-area seat away from the GOP News of vulnerable Texas Congressman Pete Olson’s retirement prompted leading elections forecasters to downgrade Republicans’ hopes of keeping his Houston-area seat. Houston’s suburbs are among the fastest-diversifying in the country, and that’s one reason why the DCCC listed TX-22 on […]

Olson is the third Republican on the DCCC’s 2020 Republican Retirement Watch List to call it quits – so far! DCCC Spokesperson Avery Jaffe issued the following statement tonight after Congressman Pete Olson (TX-22) announced his retirement from Congress. “Republicans across Texas are terrified of losing their seats in 2020 and we can’t blame Pete […]

Second-Term Michigan Congressman Paul Mitchell Won’t Seek Reelection Just a little over six months into Democratic control of the US House of Representatives and already another Republican is headed for the exits, this time it is Rep. Paul Mitchell, who has seen the writing on the wall decided to pack up and head home at […]

Last month: “Hurd disputes allegations from lawyers describing unsanitary conditions and said he’s seen no mistreatment” Last night: Hurd votes against a House bill “requiring CBP to enact safety, hygiene standards” On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to strengthen safety and hygiene standards at migrant detention facilities (like the infamous one […]

Things just keep getting worse for Ross Spano. A new report from the Tampa Bay Times shows that Spano’s “latest [campaign finance] report doesn’t include forms experts say are legally required concerning a bank loan he says he used to repay what may have been illicit loan funds that fueled his 2018 race.” Even worse, the […]

“The Founding Fathers should be turning in their graves at Hagedorn’s calling of the police on ‘we the people’ waiting in line to see his staff.” Another week, another bad editorial for Congressman Jim Hagedorn in his hometown paper. After Hagedorn announced last week that he would no longer allow constituents who belong to a […]

GOP Strategist: “Somebody who’s a well-funded candidate could come in to really give him some headaches.” After a week of bad headlines about his ongoing ethics scandals, roadblocks in Congressman David Schweikert’s path to re-election continue to mount as Arizona Republicans start to publicly speculate about the need for a primary challenge. With Schweikert’s campaign coffers hemorrhaging […]

A week after DCCC announces its best off-year Q2 ever, NRCC quietly files its report on a Saturday night  With all the numbers in for the 2nd quarter FEC filings, it’s clear that both the DCCC and Democratic Frontline Members have continued dominating the NRCC and Republican candidates in fundraising. The numbers speak for themselves: […]

Firebrand conservative Jeanne Ives launches campaign for Congress after Evelyn Sanguinetti’s horrible fundraising report, setting up a rematch of the nasty 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary Remember how we said Evelyn Sanguinetti’s week couldn’t get any worse after she got outraised 7-to-1 by Rep. Casten in her first fundraising quarter? Apparently we were wrong. After weeks […]

In this edition: Brandon Beach and Marjorie Taylor Greene gang up on Karen Handel and the Georgia GOP clown car keeps on rolling There’s blood in the water and Georgia Republicans can smell it. After being thrown out of office in 2018, former Congresswoman Karen Handel couldn’t even clear the field in her desperate attempt […]