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Republicans are limping into the start of September with a toxic mix of brutal polling, down-ballot defeats, and a steady drumbeat of bad headlines related to their Big, Ugly Law. Now, the White House is scrambling to help Congressional Republicans rebrand their “signature” piece of legislation because they know it’s a political disaster. One House […]

1,000+ protest near St. Louis, hundreds protest in Kansas City Missourians are furious that Jefferson City Republicans are going along with their D.C. party bosses’ outrageous scheme to rig the 2026 election before a single vote is cast. More than 1,000 Missourians marched near St. Louis, while hundreds gathered in Kansas City to condemn the Republican plan to […]

Faced with an avalanche of headlines all summer that have covered rising costs with no relief in sight, Republicans are starting to realize what the American people have been trying to tell them all year: Voters expect lower costs – and will hold House Republicans accountable for their broken promise and failure to deliver. Recent reporting […]

Lawler proudly voted to hike home energy costs and kill energy jobs across New York – all to fund massive tax breaks for billionaires New Yorkers are already struggling to pay their utility bills as energy costs continue to spike across the state, and “adding insult to injury is the federal rollback of renewable energy incentives” that […]

Monthly out-of-pocket health care costs are set to jump as much as 75% next year because Republicans have refused to extend ACA tax credits, which help over 19 million receive affordable health care. Instead, Republicans gutted Medicaid for millions of hardworking Americans, crushing rural hospitals and kicking people off of their health care to give massive tax […]

Derrick Van Orden has spent months lying to Wisconsinites and throwing temper tantrums about his decisive vote to cut Medicaid. But even JD Vance can’t save Van Orden from himself.  Vance parachuted into WI-03 in an attempt to convince Wisconsinites that Van Orden didn’t actually vote to cut Medicaid (he did) while giving tax breaks to billionaires […]

Data doesn’t lie and House Republicans are running scared In special election after special election, Democrats are overperforming by a whopping 15.5 percentage points compared to 2024 presidential numbers, according to a new report from The New York Times and data compiled by The Downballot. Put into historical perspective, that 15.5 percent overperformance is more than double compared […]

Mariannette Miller-Meeks wants a participation trophy for jacking up Iowans’ energy costs. After months of claiming she was working to protect energy tax credits that allow “Iowa’s power costs [to be] among the lowest in the nation,” Miller-Meeks voted to gut them: “throwing Iowa’s 50-plus wind-related companies into uncertainty,” spiking costs, and jeopardizing good-paying jobs […]

REMINDER: Bill Huizenga voted AGAINST the funding being used to reopen Holtec’s Palisades power plant. Huizenga voted NO on the Inflation Reduction Act – which provided the funding to help finance the reopening of Palisades through its Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment (EIR) program’s loan guarantee. USDA: “DOE, through its Loan Programs Office (LPO), announced the closing of a loan guarantee of up to […]

Zach Nunn is refusing to hold town halls because he knows his voters aren’t happy with him. But as Nunn dodges Iowans and refuses to make public appearances, the local pressure on him just keeps mounting. KGAN reports that Nunn “is facing growing calls to hold in-person town halls” as Iowans question why he’s not […]