The Texas House Republican who is spearheading the leading restrictive voting bill in that chamber struggled to answer basic questions about the legislation, posed to him by Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier (D), the chair of the Texas legislature’s Black caucus.
Continue reading “GOPer Pushing TX Voting Restrictions Stumped By Questions About His Own Bill”
The founder and president of the company leading yet another audit of the 2020 election results in Arizona’s largest county boosted an endless stream of nonsense about the 2020 election results on Twitter.
Continue reading “AZ Senate Hires Peddler Of 2020 Fraud Nonsense To Audit Dem-Leaning County”
Virginia’s Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the path for authorities to remove statues of two Confederate generals, in Charlottesville, Virginia, including one of Robert E. Lee that was at the center of a deadly white nationalist rally in 2017.
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As Texas Republicans tried to highlight on the Senate floor Wednesday, there is at least one way that Texas’ legislative push to overhaul voting is less bad than Georgia’s: Texas lawmakers are not currently trying to ban line-warming, i.e. the practice of distributing water and food to those waiting in line.
But in other important ways, the bills moving forward in Texas make the restrictive voting pushes in other parts of the country look like child’s play.
Apparently, they were always few and far between. At least in Washington.
According to a new Daily Beast report, Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) colleagues on the Hill have been wary for some time that he might eventually become embroiled in scandal. Lawmakers told the Daily Beast that it’s widely known in Congress that the Florida Republican has an affinity for partying hard, and it was an open secret in 2018 that he was dating a college student who came to Washington, D.C. as an intern.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Where Are Gaetz’s Friends Now?”
The founder of the Oath Keepers popped up at a rally near the U.S.-Mexico border last week, sharing the roster with Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West and other Republican politicians.
Continue reading “Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Hangs With GOP Big Shots At Border Rally”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)’s supposed alibi for the DOJ probe into sex-trafficking allegations brings the bombastic Trump supporter into the bizarre, grifter-filled world of the hunt for missing FBI agent Robert Levinson.
Continue reading “Absurd Gaetz Alibi Draws In Global Circle Of True Believers And Grifters”
Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) on Thursday criticized fellow Republicans in his state for finding themselves in hot water upon the passage of the state’s new voting overhaul law, which he said can be attributed to the failure to refute former President Trump’s election fraud falsehoods during the 2020 presidential election cycle. Continue reading “GA Lt Gov Rips GOPers Who Fed Into Trump’s Falsehoods To Pass ‘Knee-Jerk’ Law”
A new report identifies Texas, Georgia and Arizona — all states where Democrats made significant inroads in 2020 — as the biggest producers of restrictive voter legislation.
Continue reading “Report: Texas, Georgia, Arizona Are Hot Spots For New Voter Suppression Bills”
The Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has expanded beyond the Republican’s home state, ABC News confirmed on Wednesday night.
