Ken Paxton wants to end a Trump-era ban on firearm bump stocks
An August press release from Paxton’s office said he is protecting the Second Amendment from President Biden, but Biden didn’t create the ban.
By Emily Singer - October 12, 2022An August press release from Paxton’s office said he is protecting the Second Amendment from President Biden, but Biden didn’t create the ban.
By Emily Singer - October 12, 2022The Ohio Republican Senate nominee’s campaign has not said whether J.D. Vance still supports cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
By Josh Israel - July 07, 2022The former Republican congressman sang a different tune in 2016, when his party gained control of both chambers of Congress and the White House.
By Josh Israel - November 24, 2020Republicans often avoid answering questions about Trump’s offensive comments by playing dumb.
By Emily Singer - June 10, 2020Republicans promised that the tax law would be a boon to American workers, but that hasn’t happened.
By Oliver Willis - December 16, 2019Former House Speakers Paul Ryan, John Boehner, and Newt Gingrich want to ensure that GOP mapmakers, rather than voters, chose who sits in Congress for the next decade.
By Josh Israel - December 13, 2019Ryan said his failure to slash Social Security and Medicare is ‘one thing I regret the most.’
By Mike Stankiewicz - June 11, 2019Paul Ryan still can’t stand up to Trump, even in retirement.
By Oliver Willis - March 13, 2019The former House speaker said Trump’s personality is an electoral loser in a speech in Florida on Monday.
By Emily Singer - March 12, 2019‘The first two years were not about oversight, they were about success,’ Sanders said, praising Republicans in Congress for their failure to investigate Trump.
By Oliver Willis - March 06, 2019Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe said GOP leaders in Congress didn’t object when the FBI opened an investigation into Trump because he might be ‘a threat’ to national security.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 19, 2019As failed Speaker Paul Ryan scurries into retirement, a new Democratic majority is here to set things right.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 02, 2019Racism was the Republican Party’s message in 2018. It lost, big.
By Oliver Willis - December 26, 2018Trump really wants to shut down the government, and while most Americans don’t want that, Mitch McConnell is happy to oblige.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 21, 2018‘This is a cowardly way to govern.’
By Dan Desai Martin - December 21, 2018Trump is obsessed with shutting down the government.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 20, 2018Ryan avoided discussing the reality of his tax scam and the record-breaking deficit.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 19, 2018The compromise farm bill stripped out all of Paul Ryan’s priorities — so he lied about it to his GOP colleagues.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 12, 2018Sore loser Republicans are stealing power in Wisconsin, but Paul Ryan won’t say a word.
By Oliver Willis - December 05, 2018Trump is wreaking havoc on America’s financial situation, but he just doesn’t care.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 05, 2018Paul Ryan utterly failed as speaker of the House. Now he wants Americans to believe he never wanted the job.
By Oliver Willis - November 30, 2018Paul Ryan is upset that voters in California replaced half of the Republican congressional delegation in the state, reducing the GOP contingent from 14 to merely 7.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 29, 2018House Republicans are finally willing to settle for Rep. Kevin McCarthy as their leader.
By Kaili Joy Gray - November 14, 2018Regardless of the results on Election Day, America will finally be free of the failed ‘leadership’ of Republican Paul Ryan.
By Kaili Joy Gray - November 06, 2018The White House is happy to have a fall guy.
By Eric Boehlert - October 22, 2018Republican leaders are warning this year’s most vulnerable candidates to distance themselves from Trump, his enablers, and the culture of corruption that is tainting the whole party.
By Oliver Willis - August 24, 2018‘Paul Ryan needs to think long and hard about the future of the Republican Party.’
By Tommy Christopher - August 22, 2018There’s a clear reason why Republicans are attacking Nancy Pelosi: She’s killing them at fundraising.
By Tommy Christopher - August 16, 2018Republicans made grand promises about their tax bill, but all evidence so far points out what most already knew: It’s just a scam to line the pockets of the already-wealthy.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 13, 2018Ryan’s cowardice runs even deeper than we knew.
By Tommy Christopher - August 07, 2018