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As parents are juggling higher costs at the gas station and grocery store, House Republicans are busy lobbying the Senate to prioritize $1 billion in tax payer dollars to fund the White House ballroom. Meanwhile, the man in charge could not care less about the affordability crisis he created. Standing on the White House lawn, Trump told reporters, “I […]

Reporting last week found that a lobbyist connected to Kim Reynolds offered $100 cash payments – with $25 bonuses for additional recruits – to pack Zach Nunn’s rally with JD Vance.  A text message obtained by Iowa Starting Line from lobbyist Jake Swanson offered “$100, and for anyone that you recruit, an additional $25” to […]

Kean Jr. last voted on March 5th It has now been 10 weeks since Tom Kean Jr. last voted in Washington. New Jersey voters still don’t know where their congressman is, and they don’t know why he has continued to trade stocks in office while missing votes in Washington. His office is once again refusing to say when […]

Kiggans on racist remarks: “That’s right. Ditto. Yes, yes to that.” Yesterday, Virginia Congresswoman Jen Kiggans agreed with racist remarks made by an interview host who called on House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries to get his “cotton-picking hands” out of Virginia. Kiggans responded: “That’s right. Ditto. Yes, yes to that.” Now a wave of news coverage is […]

Spectrum News: “Democrats in Ohio may have more reason to hope than they’ve had in years.” Just one week after Ohio’s primary, the picture across the state’s House battleground just keeps getting better for Democrats. Ohio Democrats posted one of their highest turnouts since 2006 — seeing huge increases in critical urban and suburban counties. Last week, nonpartisan race […]

NOTUS reports HealthCare.Gov sees millions of Americans dropping health care coverage Millions of Americans struggling with rising prices are dropping health insurance coverage after Republicans in Congress and Donald Trump refused to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. According to a new report from CMS obtained by NOTUS, there’s been a 21% decline in enrollment in the […]

Messy Republican primary in Michigan’s 10th district! New reporting from the Detroit News exposes how Mike Bouchard Jr.’s campaign is heavily reliant on his father’s political and financial connections – and the messy Republican primary dynamic as his rivals “are seizing on his father’s campaign involvement as an unsavory emblem of the nepotism that often […]

Reporting from the Gazette puts a further spotlight on how Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ “record on prescription drug policy has drawn scrutiny over her connections to the pharmaceutical industry.” The Gazette highlighted how “while serving on a House subcommittee that oversees drug pricing,” Miller-Meeks rented an apartment from “two registered lobbyists whose firm represented the Pharmaceutical Research […]

Lawler funneled more than $720,000 to his own consulting firm from political and advocacy groups he personally directed The bad press keeps piling up for Mike Lawler as he faces more scrutiny over his long history of self-dealing while in office. The New York Times reports that Lawler, “New York’s most endangered House Republican, paid a political consulting firm he […]

“It’s President Donald Trump’s economy — and most Americans aren’t happy with it.” Prices are rising, inflation is at a three-year high, and Americans’ frustrations with the economy are reaching a fever pitch less than six months out from the midterm elections. New polling from CNN finds that three-quarters of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, […]