Tag Archives: GOP

GA Senate Advances “Don’t Say Gay” Bill After Hearing From Homocons, Opponents Weren’t Allowed To Speak

The Georgia Recorder reports: A controversial bill dubbed Georgia’s version of “Don’t Say Gay” moved forward in a Senate committee Tuesday after three years of work and multiple failures to move, largely over Republican opposition to the inclusion of private schools. The bill passed committee on a 6-3 party line vote during a committee meeting in which proponents were given …

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ABC: Ethics Panel Has Texts From Gaetz To Sex Worker

ABC News reports: Congressional House Ethics investigators have obtained text messages allegedly showing that a few months after first joining Congress, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz asked a young woman, who at the time had received payments for sex from Gaetz’s then-close friend Joel Greenberg, to join him and others on a three-day trip to the Florida Keys in May 2017, …

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GOP Rep Warns Of “Serious Security Threat” By Russia

NBC News reports: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, released an unusual statement Wednesday warning of a “serious national security threat” without providing additional details, pre-empting what the White House said was a planned briefing for congressional leaders. Four sources with knowledge of the issue said the threat is a Russian military capability. Turner, in his statement, did not …

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Johnson Lies That Report Found Biden “Broke The Law”

Mediaite reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claimed during a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday that Special Counsel Robert Hur found that President Joe Biden “broke the law, but he’s not going to be charged.” “We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,” begins the report, which goes on to detail Hur could not establish a …

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GOP Senate Candidate: Jews Killed JFK And Lincoln

The Jewish Insider reports: In a series of interviews and public appearances spanning nearly two years, Jim Marchant, a Republican candidate for the Senate seat in Nevada, has frequently invoked antisemitic tropes claiming that “evil people” including the “Khazarians,” “the cabal,” “globalists” and “central bankers” have controlled the government and conspired to oppress the American people and the world for …

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Haley Mocks Trump With Valentines To Dictators

The New York Post reports: Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is ushering in Valentine’s Day with a tongue-in-cheek dig at her old boss, former President Donald Trump, by penning some “love letters” on his behalf. “Happy Valentine’s Day from Donald Trump to dictators around the world! Over the years, Trump has professed his love for the world’s most brutal dictators …

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Johnson Taps Top Cultists As Impeachment Managers

The New York Times reports: The House speaker names impeachment managers from the chamber who would be tasked with arguing the case against the impeached official, serving as the prosecution team in the Senate trial. In the case of Mr. Mayorkas, the impeachment articles also appoint 11 impeachment managers. The group includes Representatives Mark E. Green of Tennessee, the chairman …

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Tuberville Claims US “Forced” Russia To Attack Ukraine

“We forced this issue. We kept forcing NATO all the way to eastern Europe and Putin just got tired of it. He said, ‘Listen, I do not want missiles on my border from the United States. It’d be like Russian coming to Mexico and putting missiles in Mexico.’ I can understand what he’s talking about. This administration does not know …

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Lara Trump: If I’m Elected RNC Co-Chair, “Every Single Penny” Will Be Spent To Elect My Father-In-Law [Video]

“Here’s what I can tell you. The RNC needs to be the leanest, most lethal political fighting machine we’ve ever seen in American history. That is the goal over the next nine and a half months. “If I am elected to this position, I can assure you, there will not be any more $70,000 or whatever exorbitant amount of money …

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House Republicans Impeach Mayorkas In 214-213 Vote

CNN reports: The GOP-led House has voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. He is the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in nearly 150 years. The result came a week after the stunning loss for House Republicans when they tried to impeach Mayorkas – and GOP defections and an absence sank the floor vote. House Republicans claim Mayorkas …

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Tennessee Approves Bill Allowing Anybody To Refuse Officiating At Same-Sex Weddings Because Of Jesus

The Tennessean reports: Hours after a bill allowing marriage officiants to decline to solemnize weddings if they have moral objections received final passage from lawmakers, a vibrant crowd rallied on Capitol Hill advocating against a slate of bills aimed at placing new restrictions on Tennessee’s LGBTQ community. Senate Bill 596, which would allow officiants to decline to perform weddings, passed …

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Utah Speaker Appeared At Far-Right “Patriot” Event

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, who has made increasing trust in government a focus of his tenure as a legislative leader, is giving conflicting reasons for keeping his calendar of speaking engagements from the public after speaking at a Christian nationalist event last month. In January, Schultz was a featured speaker at an event sponsored …

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LIVE VIDEO: House Votes On Impeaching Mayorkas

CBS News reports: The House on Tuesday is expected to vote for a second time in a week to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after Republican leaders suffered an embarrassing defeat in their first effort. Mayorkas narrowly survived last week’s vote after a small group of Republicans, who said President Biden’s border chief did not commit impeachable offenses for …

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DeSantis Likely To Veto Social Media Ban For Minors

Florida Politics reports: Florida’s Governor is again throwing cold water on a legislative proposal to ban youth social media use because he doesn’t know if the “expansion beyond the current federal law” would hold up in court. “I think that I’m not going to be supporting if I don’t think it’s going to be something that’s going to pass legal …

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McConnell Calls On Johnson To Allow Ukraine Aid Vote

Politico reports: Mitch McConnell urged Speaker Mike Johnson to allow a vote on Ukraine aid in an interview on Tuesday afternoon, though the Senate minority leader said he would not be “so presumptuous as to tell him how to do it.” “We’ve heard all kinds of rumors about whether the House supports Ukraine or doesn’t. It seems to me that …

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Bannon: Globalists Want “Apartheid State For MAGA”

“Every institution that we have, because this is the Fourth Turning, they’re collapsing around us. Their rear guard action is to stop Trump, all of them, the lawfare, all of it. And even the financial, which I’m going to get to here in a second. Because they cannot allow Trump to return to the White House savvier, smarter, tougher, more …

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NYT: Republicans Now Freely Using Racist Tropes

The New York Times reports: House Republicans released their report on impeachment charges against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the Cuban-born homeland security secretary who is the first Latino to lead his department. Using unusually loaded language for a committee report, the panel described its action as “deporting Secretary Mayorkas from his position.” In private, the language was uglier. During a closed-door …

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GOP Senator: Texas’s AG “Pushes Russian Propaganda”

The Houston Chronicle reports: A $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that passed the Senate overnight has sparked a battle between two of Texas’s most prominent Republicans, with Attorney General Ken Paxton calling U.S. Sen. John Cornyn an “America Last RINO” and Cornyn raising Paxton’s ongoing legal troubles. Paxton went after Cornyn on social media early Tuesday …

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US Marshals: 457 “Serious Threats” To Judges In 2023

Reuters reports: Serious threats to U.S. federal judges have more than doubled over the past three years, part of a growing wave of politically driven violence, according to U.S. Marshals Service data reviewed by Reuters. The agency, responsible for the protection of 2,700 federal judges and more than 30,000 federal prosecutors and other court personnel, has seen a sharp rise …

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MTG Rages That “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Portrays Cultists As “Racists And Rednecks,” Mocks GA Laws

“I watched this week’s episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm and it was a glaring reminder of why most Georgian’s resent Republicans in our state for inviting the nasty commies from California, the Hollywood elites, into our state by dishing out Hollywood tax credits. “This week’s episode lied and painted GA conservatives and Trump supporters as racists and rednecks and made …

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