In 2010, enraged grassroots conservatives launched an insurgency against the Republican establishment. The Tea Party movement ran a series of primary challengers accusing Republicans of being insufficiently oppositional to President Obama.
Roughly 140,000 registered voters in Arizona’s Maricopa County did not receive their voter identification cards ahead of a special congressional election on Tuesday.
If you opened a copy of Wednesday’s New York Times, you were treated to this full-page ad on page A5:
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There are three major candidates in the race for the next governor of Michigan: Abdul El-Sayed, a leftist candidate in the mold of Bernie Sanders; Gretchen Whitmer, an establishment candidate who happily holds fundraisers with health insurance companies; and Shri Thanedar, a completely fake progressive who claims…
In a stunt that South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick characterized as “hysterical,” Republican U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman drew a loaded .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun and left it on the table during a “coffee with constituents” event on Friday.
At a press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven on Tuesday, President Donald Trump fielded questions about what the U.S. is doing to counteract possible Russian interference in its elections this year and in 2020. This was Trump’s response, per Politico:
Two congressional candidates running to unseat Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan were arrested for blocking an intersection near Ryan’s office in Racine, WI, on Monday in an act of civil disobedience.
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Last year, women marched to say they’ve had enough. This year women are marching again—and they’re headed straight to the ballot box.
Twitter says it will email 677,775 people in the U.S. to warn that they interacted with Russian propaganda accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a St. Petersburg–based troll farm that significantly disrupted the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The Supreme Court announced late Thursday that it would temporarily block a federal court ruling ordering North Carolina to redraw its congressional maps because of partisan gerrymandering. The Supreme Court’s decision could give Republican candidates a significant advantage as they face the state’s upcoming midterm…
Nearly eight weeks of a truly harrowing ballot recount debacle will come to a close tomorrow, when Virginia officials will finally determine the winner of a tied, highly contested state house race in the state’s 94th district in the most democratic way possible: by randomly drawing a name out of a bowl in a crowded…
Alabama Senator-elect Doug Jones, the first Democrat to represent the state in the Senate since 1997, has been certified as the winner of the Dec. 12 special election over Republican Roy Moore by over 21,000 votes, in spite of Moore’s last-minute “election complaint” he filed in state court this morning. That request…
In the early 1980s, accused sexual predator Roy Moore may or may not have been barred from his hometown shopping mall in Gadsden, Alabama, due to questionable conduct with teenage girls. Decades later, on the eve of Alabama’s special election to replace Jeff Sessions’ Senate seat, we went back to Moore’s old haunt,…
In the weeks since eight women have come forward with stories of Roy Moore’s habitual predation involving very young girls, the prospective senator has been creeping back into favor with all sorts of equivocating groups: the RNC, conservative evangelical pastors, presidents who have bragged about assaulting women on…
After a fifth woman came forward on Monday to accuse Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was 16—coupled with new reporting that Moore was literally banned from the local mall for scoping out teen girls—Republican leaders in Washington are in full-on damage control, but they may…
For Donald Trump, there’s no such thing as bad optics. Or, maybe there is and he just doesn’t care.
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Danica Roem made history Tuesday night when she was elected to become Virginia’s first openly transgender state lawmaker—one of a spate of historic victories on Election Day 2017.