Republicans

The Huffington Post reports: The Florida Republican Party paid thousands of dollars over the summer to a far-right activist who attended the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in 2017 and later charged at a crowd of anti-racist demonstrators with a Confederate flag. Christopher Monzon was paid more than $10,000 by the party between June and September, federal campaign finance …

Oklahoma City’s ABC affiliate reports: A new controversy has arisen surrounding the race for state superintendent. If elected, Republican Ryan Walters would have teachers undergo patriotic education offered by a conservative Christian college in Michigan. Walters has said in the past students are not being taught U.S. history accurately and argued this could be a way to reverse the trend. …

Media Matters has the transcript: So I hate talking about race. I do. I hate it because I don’t think race matters at all. I think it’s — I hate the whole conversation around it. But I have to say this next part that might get me in trouble – there is a deliberate and venomous anti-white campaign in our …

Mother Jones reports: It’s an ordinary and straightforward negative ad. A local businessman in Phoenix named Justin Erickson, who says he’s a husband and father of five children, earnestly complains that his family and his employees are “overwhelmed” by rising costs, and, as ominous music plays in the background, he declares defiantly that he can’t vote for Katie Hobbs, the …

The Hill reports: The Alaska Republican Party on Monday voted to censure Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for what they called spreading “divisive and misleading statements” about their endorsed candidate in Alaska’s Senate race. The state party added that McConnell’s financial support for incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in the Senate race against fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka was “in …

The Washington Post reports: “This book is the first inside account of what happened on Jan. 6,” Sen. Ted Cruz said in his practiced manner. The book was released on Tuesday. “And so I take the reader through the events of the 2020 election leading up to Jan. 6. I take them through the evidence of election fraud and voter …

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: Police arrested a 22-year-old man accused of attacking a canvasser handing out political flyers on Sunday evening in Hialeah. According to the police report, the victim was distributing flyers at about 6:30 p.m. at East 60th Street and First Avenue when Javier Lopez attacked him. The victim was campaigning for Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who is …

Reuters reports: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas temporarily blocked a lower court’s order requiring Senator Lindsey Graham to testify to a grand jury in Georgia investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies attempted to overturn 2020 election results in the state. Thomas granted the Republican senator’s request to halt the lower court’s decision pending a further order to …

Florida Politics reports: Twenty-two days since Hurricane Ian hit the Gulf Coast and forged a path of destruction across the state, the amount of federal recovery aid distributed to the state blew past the $1 billion mark. The speed of the aid’s distribution appears to be outpacing — and by some measures overtaking — the federal aid that followed Hurricane …

Newsweek reports: Senator Ted Cruz has revealed he was in a “a supply closet with stacked chairs” during part of the January 6 storming of Congress. Cruz, who opposed the certification of election results from Arizona, describes the day’s events in his new book Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System. Cruz said Senators were led to a …

Mediaite reports: “Hello this is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. America needs strong leadership and desperately,” said DeSantis in a robocall, according to The Washington Examiner. “That’s why I’m endorsing Joe O’Dea for U.S. Senate. Colorado, please vote for Joe O’Dea.” Trump shared The Washington Examiner piece on his social media site TRUTH Social and wrote, “A BIG MISTAKE!” O’Dea has …

The Daily Beast reports: In the name of “curriculum transparency,” Florida’s Republican-controlled state government has appointed several anti-gay and anti-mask conspiracy theorists to take charge of a new effort at public schools: banning books. This hastily assembled censorship council—tasked with retraining public school librarians to abide by new restrictions—is the latest ploy in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crusade to upend the …

Fansided reports: Yankees fans welcomed Texas senator Ted Cruz to New York with some NSFW gestures during Game 4 of the ALCS against the Astros. Crowds in New York aren’t known for being particularly friendly toward opposing fans. When one of those fans is a controversial political figure rooting for the opposing team, you can bet they’re going to get …

The Associated Press reports: A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Alaska faces accusations he sexually harassed a former assistant while he was a borough mayor. The lawsuit filed Friday accuses Charlie Pierce of “constant unwanted physical touching, sexual remarks, and sexual advances.” In the lawsuit, she claims Pierce touched her breast, made sexual remarks, falsely imprisoned her in his private office, …

The Washington Post reports: If the midterm elections degenerate into chaos in a couple of weeks — a very real possibility — then Nevada is poised to lead the way. Indeed, the chaos here has already begun. The election supervisors in 10 of the state’s 17 counties have already quit, been forced out or announced their departures. Lower-level election workers …

“There were rumors circulating in the days and weeks leading up to January 6, rumors suggesting that some states would be shifting out their slates of electors. “As a U.S. senator, it was my job to open and count the electoral votes and we were trying to narrow down what was truth and what was fiction.  “I made phone calls …

Newsweek reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has sparked anger online after she referred to women as a “lesser vessel” when compared to men. The politician spoke with conservative comedian Brad Stine on the Brad Stine Has Issues podcast. Before making her controversial comments, Boebert had been speaking about transgender participation in sports and gender identity. She added: “We are created …

Roll Call reports: Retiring Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois came to Utah to make the case for electing the independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin over incumbent Republican Sen. Mike Lee. “People sometimes come up to me and say, like, ‘Adam, you’re courageous in what you’re doing,’ and I appreciate people saying that. It’s not true, though,” Kinzinger said at an …

PBS NewsHour reports: U.S. District Judge Wendy Berger in Orlando has dismissed a lawsuit brought by LGBTQ students, parents and their families — as well as several civil rights groups — and refused their request for a preliminary injunction to stop the law from being implemented. Earlier this month, a federal judge in Tallahassee dismissed a similar challenge to the …

Politico reports: Donald Trump won Oklahoma by over 30 points in 2020 — but Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is still getting last-minute help to close out his reelection bid. Stitt has been deadlocked in a string of recent public polls in the state with Democrat Joy Hofmeister, the state superintendent of education, who switched parties at the end of last …