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This release went out Spanish version only. English translation below. Durante la Conferencia de Acción Política Conservadora (CPAC), Denise Gitsham, la candidata para representar al distrito 52 de California en el Congreso, dijo que podía pasar como hispana. Gitsham no es hispana y no tiene ninguna conexión con la comunidad latina. Denise Gitsham dijo que […]

Después de que Donald Trump haya dominado en la primaria republicana de este martes, hoy los republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes dirigidos por Paul Ryan están haciendo todo lo posible para exceder a Trump y su retórica antiinmigrante. El Líder Ryan presentará un voto histórico y poco común para mandar un escrito ‘Amicus Curiae’ […]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ICYMI – How Donald Trump is ruining Paul Ryan’s speakership The Washington Post By Mike DeBonis and Kelsey Snell March 7, 2016 House Speaker Paul D. Ryan stepped in front of cameras Tuesday and delivered just the sort of high-minded, clear-eyed, aspirational message that has made him a Republican Party […]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Gitsham to Tea Party: “I’m one of you” Republican San Diego Congressional candidate and lobbyist Denise Gitsham used a prime speaking opportunity at the right-wing Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to reassure the Tea Party she can be trusted to defend their extreme views: “Let me put your hearts at […]

No-show Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin has been making headlines this past week for saying publicly that he’d be willing to back Donald Trump. But Zeldin wrapping his arms around Trump isn’t really a surprise, as both are two peas in a pod when it comes recklessly grandstanding on foreign policy. Zeldin – a frequent […]

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 […]