Beth Benike, Minnesota's 2025 Small Business Person of the Year, asked Brad Finstad for help with Trump's tariffs and twice asked to meet him in Washington. He declined. His new attack ad uses a photo...

The family of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, shot dead in Atlanta in 2020, sent Rick Jackson's campaign a cease-and-desist letter over using her name and image. Their attorneys say the campaign answered ...

American Patriots USA was founded by former Klan leader Chester Doles, and the SPLC lists it as a white nationalist hate group. Its former vice president and former state director both held county rol...

For more than a year, Mike Rogers defended Trump's tariffs, called the critics 'fear mongering' and joked about voters complaining that 'coffee went up.' Now, with absentee ballots already being cast,...

The House's No. 3 Republican told the St. Cloud Times that the spending cuts in Trump's budget bill were just the start — 'It doesn't even scratch the surface' — and government needs to be reinvented....

States Newsroom asked Senate candidates in nine close races what they'd do about the automatic Social Security cut coming in 2032. Dan Sullivan, Roger Marshall, Michael Whatley and Jon Husted didn't r...

The Government Accountability Office found that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s HHS illegally withheld more than $78 million that Congress approved last year for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...

Glenn Dubin gave $100,000 to American Exceptionalism PAC, the super PAC backing Ramaswamy's 2024 presidential run. When it came out, Ramaswamy's campaign gave away the money Dubin sent it directly. Fe...

Jim Jordan has been in Congress since 2007 and every one of his 30 bills died in committee. Chuck Fleischmann's Cherokee land bill has passed the House five times and never once cleared the Senate. Th...

An AP investigation found more than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops detained by immigration authorities in Trump's second term, after his administration dropped a rule that required ...

In a leaked recording from a private Capitol Hill fundraiser, Ken Paxton said 'reasonable cuts to mandatory spending' are unavoidable. About three-quarters of that spending is Social Security, Medicar...

On Newsmax, Rep. Greg Murphy said people picked up after living in the U.S. for 35 years are 'collateral damage' in Trump's deportation drive. Fewer than a quarter of people ICE arrested in July had a...

Virginia Foxx attacked the federal rule limiting the silica dust that gives coal miners black lung while she held Alliance Resource Partners stock. She has also held stock in AbbVie, which took on All...

At what may be his only debate, Rep. Pete Stauber called it 'an outright misrepresentation' that he'd described Minnesota as 'a failed state.' The day after an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapol...

Vivek Ramaswamy's new ad uses a prostate-cancer patient to defend his drug-company record. Cleveland.com's fact-check found three claims in it are lies: the patient is talking about a different drug t...

Since the March primary, Darren Bailey has stayed in a downtown Chicago apartment he says 'a doctor' donated. Democrats say it isn't on any campaign report. Asked who owns it and what the rent is, he ...

An ethics complaint says Alex Joyner drew $61,805 from the House while still managing Matt Van Epps's campaign. Federal Election Commission records confirm the campaign paid Joyner every two weeks fro...

In a TV ad, Iowa governor candidate Zach Lahn vows to 'ban H-1B visa holders from being hired by Iowa government and universities.' The private school he co-founded in Wichita petitioned for H-1B work...

Sworn in on August 12, 2022, Brad Finstad cast his first votes that same day — against the law that capped insulin at $35 a month for people on Medicare. In 2023 he was one of only 40 House Republican...

In a Senate ad shot with Windsor behind him, Mike Rogers says he'll make sure Michiganders don't pay more for prescriptions than Canadians. Bridge Michigan's fact-check found that as a congressman he ...

Louisiana's SNAP rolls fell by about 170,000 people — 21% — in the year after Trump signed his budget bill, one of the steepest drops in the country. Steve Scalise, Mike Johnson, Clay Higgins and Juli...

Federal Judge Gary Brown, appointed by Trump, ruled that ICE agents arrested the wrong man in the Bronx, then prepared 'a substantially false administrative warrant' and gave testimony bearing 'all th...

At a Nebraska rally, Trump said Iran war gas prices were 'a small price to pay' and added 'let 'em take out Los Angeles, let 'em take out San Diego.' The man he endorsed for California governor didn't...

Calvert calls Kim a 'Trump-traitor.' A pro-Calvert PAC mailed voters 'Young Kim, 100% with Trump.' But when Trump told a Nebraska rally 'let 'em take out Los Angeles, let 'em take out San Diego,' Real...

Arnaud Armstrong, the man who speaks for Ryan Mackenzie in every scandal, was a member of a college group chat that traded Holocaust jokes and racist memes.

Internal ICE reports released October 7 show Trump's Homeland Security Department pulled in tens of millions of records to hunt for voter fraud, reviewed 82 nonprofits in Pennsylvania alone, flagged t...

Ann Wagner posted about delivering $42 million for I-70 near Lambert airport. Federal records tie the money to the 2021 infrastructure law, which she voted against.

John James took $11,325 from two poultry-industry executives — one whose company settled claims over polluted drinking water and a scheme to suppress poultry workers' wages. As governor, James would p...

Asked his role in passing House Bill 6, the FirstEnergy bailout at the center of Ohio's largest bribery scandal, Jon Husted said 'None.' FirstEnergy's own texts say otherwise, and every meeting on his...

A week before he was elected, Rob Bresnahan said rising fuel prices make everything more expensive. In Congress, he has voted against all six resolutions to end Trump's Iran war, while Pennsylvania ga...

Texas Public Radio has repeatedly asked Brandon Herrera for an interview about his past online comments. At a campaign event in a public shopping center, his campaign manager told the reporter to leav...

Fairshake, the super PAC funded mainly by Coinbase, a16z and Ripple, is backing 19 House Republicans — $1 million apiece for French Hill, Bryan Steil and Bill Huizenga, the sponsor and two cosponsors ...

The Justice Department is recruiting criminal prosecutors as part of a plan to send an unprecedented 1,000 monitors to the polls on Election Day. Former voting officials say prosecutors have never bee...

HHS quietly announced a new division of government lawyers to represent children who crossed the border alone — in courtrooms where the judge and the prosecutor also work for the Trump administration.

V-PAC, the $42 million super PAC funded mostly by billionaires to elect Vivek Ramaswamy, mailed Ohio voters a flyer whose lead claim about Amy Acton is false. Its spokesman called it a 'typo.'

In newly released audio from a 2025 campaign event, Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers said A.I. could verify who has 'earned' Social Security and claimed there's still a lot of fraud in disability...

Homeland Security says it is 'NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake' and 'does not zip tie or restrain children.' ProPublica counted 506 Americans held by immigration agents since January 2025 — at l...

Florida Bulldog found that the Republican nominee for Florida governor quietly amended his House financial disclosures twice this year, adding a CrossCountry Mortgage loan, up to $500,000 in student l...

Newsday found that the Long Island Republican is tied for the third-most privately sponsored trips in the House this year: four trips, nearly a month on the road, with a session at Shell, a lunch with...

People at KKR — co-owner of CyrusOne, which runs a data center campus in Research Triangle Park and is building another near Sanford — gave North Carolina's Republican Senate nominee $27,000, includin...

Ramaswamy appeared at Liberty Valley Church in Northfield last December and again in May, alongside a pastor who compared COVID rules to Nazi Germany and whose members protested outside a Jewish lawma...