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Checking on David Valadao, who’s been challenged by one of his biggest financial backers – Elon Musk – in a truly wild turn of events. To date, Valadao has received over $572,000 in outside spending from Musk’s AMERICA PAC, and $10,500 in contributions from Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. PAC. To do the math, that brings us to over $582,500 in […]

Checking on Young Kim, who’s been challenged by financial backer Elon Musk in a truly wild turn of events. FEC data shows that Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. PAC has contributed $12,500 to Kim’s campaigns.  Now, he’s slamming Kim for her YES vote on the GOP’s “disgusting abomination” of a budget bill, that will drive up the […]

Checking on Nick Begich, who’s been challenged by one of his biggest financial backers – Elon Musk – in a truly wild turn of events. To date, Begich’s campaigns have received over $437,000 in outside spending from Musk’s AMERICA PAC and $2,500 in contributions from Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. PAC. To do the math, that brings us to over […]

Checking on Ken Calvert, who’s been challenged by one of his biggest financial backers – Elon Musk – in a truly wild turn of events. To date, Calvert has received: Over $916,000 in outside spending from Musk’s AMERICA PAC $319,000 in individual contributions from Elon Musk ($310,700 to Calvert’s Victory fund was Musk’s largest ever individual contribution to […]

New message testing conducted by the DCCC and the DSCC shows Republicans’ massive cuts to essential benefits are toxic with voters Today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) released a new joint polling memo that lays out the clear political vulnerabilities Congressional Republicans face in attempting to sell […]

CNN CHYRON: Perry “echoes Musk’s takedown of Trump bill despite voting for it”  Scott Perry is facing heat in the press – and from his own Republican colleagues – after he agreed with Elon Musk that Republicans’ Tax Scam legislation is a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled… disgusting abomination” despite the fact that Perry himself voted for the bill. […]

NY-17 voters chanted “Not a dime. Not a dollar. No more cuts, from Mike Lawler” More than 100 local labor and community leaders in NY-17 came out this past weekend in protest of Mike Lawler after he cast the deciding vote for Republicans’ Tax Scam that guts Medicaid and SNAP while handing massive tax breaks to […]

“Ottumwa Job Corps, which serves 33 counties, has been one of the highest-performing in the country, consistently in the top five in terms of job placement after leaving the program.” This week, the Trump administration announced the closure of the Ottumwa Job Corps: a program that provides vocational training and apprenticeship programs. The Ottumwa Jobs […]

New reporting highlights how Mariannette Miller-Meeks is further twisting herself into a pretzel to defend her vote to slash Medicaid and kick nearly 22,000 people in IA-01 off their health insurance. Southeast Iowa Union reported that Miller-Meeks “said the funding package’s reductions to another program — Medicaid — were necessary,” and said these cuts were “perfectly reasonable.” […]

According to new analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Don Bacon and House Republicans’ Tax Scam bill would increase the national deficit by $2.4 trillion.  In Bacon’s quest to deliver massive tax cuts for billionaires, he’s supporting kicking nearly tens of thousands of people in NE-02 off their health care, threatening SNAP access for more than […]