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Michigan’s 1st District candidate Tom Casperson spent a decade voting against middle-class families in Lansing. Now we can add education of Michigan children to the list of things Casperson is willing to ignore while pursuing his own interests as a career politician. (Already on the list was the outright abdication of responsibility on the part […]

Touts endorsement from anti-choice group, reminder of opposition to equal pay, increasing minimum wage and strengthening protections for domestic violence survivors As NY-22 congressional candidate (and Tea Party hero) Claudia Tenney touts her endorsement from a prominent anti-choice group today, it serves as a critical reminder of her long track-record of siding against Upstate New […]

RYAN:  “Our political discourse… did not use to be this bad.” REALITY:  Ryan and his colleagues have helped fuel Trump-like discourse since at least 2010 RYAN: “My dad used to say, if you’re not a part of the solution, you’re a part of the problem.” REALITY: Ryan is part of the problem. Where was Ryan […]

MIRS 3/23/2016 The lone Senator not present during today’s Detroit Public Schools (DPS) reform vote was in Washington D.C. for the National Republic Congressional Committee (NRCC) annual dinner. Sen. Tom CASPERSON (R-Escanaba), who is running in the 1st Congressional District, attended the dinner with departing U.S. Rep. Dan BENISHEK (R-Crystal Falls), whose seat he is seeking. “He doesn’t make […]

Puntos Claves: “…activistas y legisladores demócratas en El Paso denunciaron la acción de los republicanos, particularmente de Hurd, cuyo territorio incluye áreas hispanas en el Oeste de Texas.” “…la postura republicana busca bloquear ‘el avance de la comunidad hispana’. Prueba de esto […] están las posturas antiinmigrantes del principal candidato presidencial de los republicanos, Donald […]

Tonight, former Governor Mitt Romney will headline the NRCC’s 2016 Annual March Dinner in Washington D.C. When announcing his attendance in December, Speaker Paul Ryan was quoted as saying, “Mitt has a distinguished legacy of public service and his leadership has been instrumental in moving the Republican Party in the right direction.” So the question […]

After the blowback Tim Walberg received for saying the Flint crisis shows “that government can’t protect us against everything. It comes down to people watching out for themselves” and that “Michigan has done very well in the process of regulating water and protecting citizens,” you’d think he would try to prove to his constituents that […]

After backing failed candidate Jeb Bush, New York Congressman Tom Reed is now endorsing Donald Trump for president. The endorsement comes at a curious time, following reports that Trump’s New York surrogate, failed gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, was “bullying” New York House Republicans into backing Trump. “Now that Tom Reed is backing Donald Trump, he […]

Stefanik slammed previous opponent for staying neutral in 2014 New York gubernatorial race, but now she’s doing the same in her own party’s presidential primary While Trump continues to put New York House Republicans like Elise Stefanik between a rock and a hard place, he is also exposing blatant hypocrisies and doublespeak. So far, Stefanik […]

Congressman Frank Guinta seems to have had a very difficult time finding his voice to express outrage for the unprecedented obstructionism for Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court in the Senate. In order to help Congressman Guinta find the courage and strength to call on Senator Kelly Ayotte, we at the DCCC thought we […]