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Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) isn't exactly warm and fuzzy. He once threatened to fight an online stranger who challenged his rejection of the 2020...
At first glance, Caleb Oriet’s social media accounts look typical of a young member of the fringe, online right, featuring likes and reposts of...
Just days ago, desperately needed aid to Ukraine was languishing in the U.S. House. Widely supported restrictions on TikTok were dying in the U.S....
Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade , abortion and women’s reproductive issues have been politically painful thorns in the GOP’s...
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted four times for 91 felonies, and he is scheduled to begin his first criminal trial on Monday—a trial...
As he works to connect with voters in the very rural state he has adopted as his home, Montana Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy is touting what he claims is...
The recent rush of congressional retirements has painted an ugly picture for both parties—for very different reasons. While both parties are...
When Harry Dunn launched his campaign for Congress earlier this year, he immediately made clear exactly why he was running. The former U.S. Capitol...
The race for U.S. Senate in Maryland wasn’t supposed to be this competitive.Then again, Republicans weren’t supposed to recruit a candidate they...
Just three months ago, the Democratic U.S. Senate primary in New Jersey might have already been slipping away from Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ). When New...
Like many politicians, Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-NY) has some very passionate, very anonymous defenders on social media. But Molinaro is probably the only...
After a primary fight filled with bruising attacks and salacious allegations, wealthy businessman Bernie Moreno won the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate...
On Capitol Hill, reporters know how to find Texas Republican Troy Nehls. After the House of Representatives finishes a vote, Nehls usually leaves the...
When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos could be considered children, it put an unpopular target on the most effective fertility...
President Joe Biden easily won Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary Tuesday night. That part was never in question. What was in question,...
Former Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI) is clear about who he wants to win the presidency in November. “Donald Trump can’t get anywhere near the White House...
It’s no secret that Florida Democrats hate Sen. Rick Scott. What’s less known is that many Republicans feel the same way. To his detractors, Scott...
Less than a decade ago, all but a few Republicans in Congress would have taken the title of “Reagan Republican” as a badge of honor. The 40th...
Ever since Joe Biden took the White House, Republicans have seemed to know exactly how they were going to toss him out. The plan was simple: Hammer...
Just over a year after George Santos was sworn into office, the Democrat who first opened the alleged fraudster’s path to Congress has successfully...
After whiffing last week, House Republicans—at last—impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday. On Tuesday night, the...
As he delivered a speech to a room of reporters and lawmakers on Jan. 31, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was looking for laughs....
LEESBURG, Virginia—Hours after the Justice Department released a report accusing Joe Biden of being an “elderly man with a poor memory,” the...
As economic concerns like inflation subside, Republicans are looking for a new 2024 message they can ride to the White House and back into unified...
When Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) arrived at the Hunter Biden contempt hearing two weeks ago, he came prepared. Moskowitz didn’t know the...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) just took a page out of predecessor Kevin McCarthy’s playbook. And it looks like conservatives are letting him get away...
This Congress has been marked by petty disagreement, Republican and Democratic sniping, and all-around dysfunction. But throughout all the trivial...
Ever since Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) agreed to even just the framework of a government spending deal with Democrats on Sunday, the House has been in...
At risk of losing her re-election bid, MAGA superstar Lauren Boebert is packing up her political baggage and moving it across Colorado, where she...
On Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn defended the halls of Congress as a violent mob of right-wing extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol...
The Supreme Court’s abortion rollback last year was a long-awaited, much-celebrated victory for the Republican Party. But that win in the courts has...
During a meeting with her GOP House members last month, House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) pitched her colleagues on a potent...
Mike Lawler is a lot of things: Congressman, New Yorker, Republican. But there’s also a lesser known detail floating around about Lawler: He’s a...
House Republicans are going all-in on President Joe Biden’s impeachment, with a nearly unanimous House GOP gambling Wednesday that voters will...
With Republicans and Democrats all acknowledging Tuesday it’s unlikely Congress can reach a deal on Ukraine aid before the end of the year, GOP...
Congress is about to take perhaps its biggest step toward transparency surrounding UFOs, but the lawmakers pushing for change say the disclosure...
When Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was indicted for a years-long bribery scheme, Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) seized on the opportunity to launch a Senate bid the...
After Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, Republicans and Democrats in Congress both said they needed to act quickly to help Israel. At the time, the...
George Santos ran for Congress with an impressive resume—college volleyball star, degrees from Baruch University and New York University, and a...
Rep. Dan Kildee’s surprise announcement not to run for re-election means next November will be the first time in nearly five decades that someone...
Marine Corps fighter pilot Lt. Col. Mike O’Brien voted via an absentee ballot in the 2020 election in Montgomery County, a Philadelphia suburb....
Over the course of nine months, Sen. Tommy Tuberville has held up more than 400 military nominations over a Pentagon policy refunding travel costs for...
Government funding runs out next week, House Republicans keep tanking their own appropriations bills, and the Speaker of the House is weighing whether...
Democrats have dashed Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s dreams of a Republican sweep in Virginia—and put a damper on the Republican’s presidential buzz...
As Democrats struggle to find their message on the conflict in the Gaza Strip, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had the opportunity to kick off his...
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) lives to see another day in the House of Representatives. Santos, Congress’ most notorious fraudster and fabulist,...
A House Republican effort to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the only active member of Congress of Palestinian-Amerian descent, failed Wednesday...
New York Republicans have finally had enough of Rep. George Santos (R-NY). A group of GOP lawmakers from the state started the clock on a vote to...
When House Republicans held an impromptu press conference late Tuesday night to celebrate coalescing around their new speaker nominee, they were in no...
Almost exactly three weeks into their House Speaker debacle, Republicans were back at square one Monday night, meeting in the same room where they...