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Get ready for a Weepy Weekend for Speaker Ryan and the Republican establishment. Weekend Reading: “To paraphrase Eminem, I think this is what it’s like when a tornado meets a volcano,” said Kelly Ward, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “The spinning disaster that is the Republican establishment has met the fire-spewing Donald, […]

Speaker Paul Ryan’s “Year of Ideas,” born on October 29th 2015, passed away on Super Tuesday, March 1st 2016 at the age of four months. It met its untimely and early end at the hands of a Republican electorate that is simply not interested in policy and good governance.  A known accomplice, the House Freedom […]

Weekly House Cleaning A DCCC News Roundup Donald Trump dominated on Super Tuesday, and with that comes several ramifications, all bad for House Republicans. Just as Donald Trump has dominated conversation around the Republican presidential primary, so too will he gobble up so much oxygen in the general election. It will be impossible for House […]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT “It’s not too much to ask that an agent working in the FBI’s Political Corruption Unit follow the law while launching his congressional campaign. For a candidate relying almost exclusively on his last name and his time at the FBI to sweep him into office, this allegation casts serious doubt […]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Congressman Mike Coffman is taking fire from the Latino community for his long record of anti-immigrant rhetoric, which has certainly played a role in the rise of Trump’s racist, xenophobic, nativist campaign. Unsurprisingly, Coffman is hiding from the press and refuses to answer to these charges. Key Sections: Earlier this […]

THROWBACK THURSDAY Trump’s “domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe,” Romney says. TBT: House Dems see leverage on security with Trump ahead Politico By Lauren French March 1, 2016 House Democrats are testing ways they can cash in on Trumpmania. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee […]

WHO: San Diego Congressional candidate and lobbyist Denise Gitsham alongside the most extreme far-right political figures from across the country, including Donald Trump, Wayne LaPierre, Rep. Steve King, Ken “transvaginal ultrasounds” Cuccinelli, and David Daleiden – the man indicted in January for his misleading Planned Parenthood videos. WHAT: Gitsham will take to the stage at […]

In the wake of Donald Trump’s decisive Super Tuesday performance, it’s clear that Paul Ryan and his fellow House Republican incumbents need to start preparing to have Trump at the top of the Republican ticket this November. Ryan’s own polling shows that this is bad news for House Republicans, with a plurality of respondents saying […]

The NRCC is in denial. In an interview with POLITICO, NRCC Executive Director Rob Simms punted on a question about Donald Trump’s drag on House Republicans’ reelection prospects, by saying that he does not have “any data to support or contradict any speculation” on the impact. That could not be further from the truth: According […]

Walberg once again choosing ideology over the safety of his constituents This week, Congressman Tim Walberg (MI-07) told a reporter that the Flint water crisis shows that “government can’t protect us against everything. It comes down to people watching out for themselves.” That sound you just heard was the collective gasp of Michigan families as […]