For Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, the eviction fight is personal
‘I don’t want anyone else to have to go through what I went through, ever,’ said Rep. Cori Bush.
By Associated Press - August 07, 2021‘I don’t want anyone else to have to go through what I went through, ever,’ said Rep. Cori Bush.
By Associated Press - August 07, 2021One hundred and fifty-six years after the Civil War ended, lawmakers are still demanding states’ rights to honor the Confederacy.
By Josh Israel - June 30, 2021Republicans in Congress rush to promote a Fox News story with questionable facts.
By Oliver Willis - June 30, 2021Former Chief Justice Roger Taney authored the 1857 Supreme Court decision that stated Black Americans could not be citizens.
By Josh Israel - June 30, 2021A member of the Oath Keepers extremist group also pleaded guilty in a conspiracy case and has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
By Associated Press - June 23, 2021The story is contained in a new book about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
By Emily Singer - April 15, 2021Lawmakers are still reckoning with possible future threats as the Capitol Police deals with the fallout from the violent ordeal.
By Associated Press - April 13, 2021‘Exposing children to anything that falsely promotes the idea of white superiority and Black inferiority is dehumanizing,’ said a spokesperson from the SPLC.
By Associated Press - February 27, 2021Republican-controlled state legislatures are refusing to hold their own members accountable.
By Amy Lieu - February 16, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would introduce legislation to award Goodman and his fellow Capitol Police officers who responded to the Jan. 6 riots.
By Amy Lieu - February 12, 2021Members who refuse to comply will now be fined $5,000 for the first offense and $10,000 for each offense after that.
By Amy Lieu - February 03, 2021On Trump’s final day in office, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Capitol attackers ‘were provoked by the president.’
By Oliver Willis - January 19, 2021Four members of Congress who were in a room during the Capitol attack with maskless Republicans now have COVID-19.
By Oliver Willis - January 15, 2021States are not taking any chances as federal officials warn of looming violence ahead of the inauguration.
By Amy Lieu - January 13, 2021Madison Cawthorn previously encouraged supporters to ‘lightly threaten’ his fellow elected officials.
By Amy Lieu - January 13, 2021Donald Trump has said his remarks inciting the violence at the Capitol were ‘totally appropriate.’
By Oliver Willis - January 13, 2021Five people died in the attack on the U.S. Capitol building by Trump supporters.
By Oliver Willis - January 11, 2021‘QAnon has been calling on this kind of madness for years.’
By Associated Press - January 09, 2021At least five people have died following Wednesday’s attack.
By Amy Lieu - January 08, 2021Trump egged on his supporters before the Capitol attack, both online and at a rally in Washington on Wednesday.
By Oliver Willis - January 08, 2021‘They found where I was supposed to be … something else is going on untoward here,’ said Rep. James Clyburn.
By Oliver Willis - January 08, 2021‘Donald Trump was walking around the White House confused about why other people on his team weren’t as excited as he was,’ said Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE).
By Oliver Willis - January 08, 2021The Missouri senator is facing heat for encouraging the riot in the Capitol on Jan. 6.
By Josh Israel - January 08, 2021‘No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently,’ Biden said.
By Oliver Willis - January 07, 2021The Republican senator wants to let Trump off easy after he incited an attack on the U.S. Capitol.
By Josh Israel - January 07, 2021Police unions have backed Trump, who incited Wednesday’s attack on the Capitol.
By Donna Provencher - January 07, 2021Donald Trump and his backers encouraged Wednesday’s deadly terrorism.
By Josh Israel - January 07, 2021Mick Mulvaney claimed Trump has ‘changed’ in the past eight months. Five months ago, he called working for Trump a ‘tremendous experience.’
By Donna Provencher - January 07, 2021Mayor Muriel Bowser also warned that Trump could still do serious ‘damage’ to the country before leaving office in two weeks.
By Oliver Willis - January 07, 2021‘I believe that members of Congress have standing to bring charges against Donald Trump.’
By Oliver Willis - January 07, 2021