Republicans

The New Republic reports: Florida is reportedly sending police officers to the homes of people who signed a petition supporting an abortion rights ballot initiative. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration has begun investigating thousands of verified signatures that helped to put a state constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion on the ballot in November. The amendment would overturn Florida’s …

Politico reports: Speaker Mike Johnson is rolling out the House GOP’s strategy for a high-stakes government funding fight, teeing up a showdown with Senate Democrats ahead of the Oct. 1 shutdown deadline. House Republicans on Friday unveiled a stopgap funding bill, also known as a continuing resolution, that will fund the government at largely current levels through March 28. The …

The Daily Beast reports: This week’s Department of Justice indictments of the employees of RT, Russia’s premiere state-controlled propaganda outlet, have been met with mockery and jeering in Moscow. Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief, posted a bevy of messages on her Telegram channel—and none of them sounded like denials. In one of her first reactions on Telegram, Simonyan mocked the authorities …

NBC News reports: Former Vice President Dick Cheney will cast his ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris, according to his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney. Both Cheneys are Republicans, and the elder served alongside President George W. Bush. The younger Cheney has become one of former President Donald Trump’s most prominent conservative critics. The younger Cheney’s announcement about her father …

Salon reports: Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance said that school shootings were simply a “fact of life” after a shooting at a Georgia high school left four dead — the 45th school shooting in the United States so far this year. “If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance …

“So disinformation is something totally different from what they are going after and describing. Disinformation is when you make up things that aren’t true and you spread it people think they’re true. “In this particular case, we are talking about pre-existing political opinions in the United States. These are pre-existing political opinions that have existed well before any Russian engagement …

“It just goes to show that the politics from this administration has nothing to do with people. They’re going to continue to push an agenda. It’s not the right agenda. “In my opinion, it’s not the right time to talk about what we see out there. We’ve got to get back to God in this country, we have really gotten …

Reuters reports: Texas sued the Biden administration in an effort to block a new rule that seeks to protect the privacy of women living in states that ban abortion who travel out of state for the procedure. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in Lubbock, Texas, the state is asking a federal judge to strike down the rule, which prohibits …

The Texas Tribune reports: Bexar County officials moved forward Tuesday with a plan to mail county residents voter registration forms, defying Attorney General Ken Paxton’s threat to use “all available legal means” to quash the effort. Paxton followed through Wednesday morning, filing a lawsuit in a state district court in Bexar County that seeks an emergency order to block the …

Axios reports: In a parallel universe, the GOP’s years-long efforts to expose alleged corruption by the Biden family would be peaking at the ideal moment: Instead, with Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, Donald Trump’s crusade against “Crooked Joe” is collapsing into political irrelevance. It’s one of many reasons Trump keeps wishing he was still running against Biden, …

“A North Carolina news site is reporting that Robinson went to a porn shop nearly every day of the week in the ’90s and early 2000s. “Well, of course you got to go every day, otherwise you’re not getting the freshest porn. It’s not like they refrigerate the stuff. “He went almost every day for over a decade. I don’t …

NBC News reports: Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., on Wednesday endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, the latest high-profile Republican endorsement for Democrats. “Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris,” Cheney said in a video of remarks posted to X. The …

From the Justice Department: An indictment charging Russian nationals Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, 31, also known as Kostya, and Elena Afanasyeva, 27, also known as Lena, with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and conspiracy to commit money laundering was unsealed today in the Southern District of New York. Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva are at large. “The Justice Department has …

Fox News reports: Naples, Florida, police arrested Mayor Teresa Heitmann on Aug. 28 for allegedly driving under the influence. Police initially responded to a residence in the 500 block of 16th Avenue South after receiving a call from a man and his wife saying an unknown woman in a silver vehicle had followed them from 12th Avenue South and 3rd …

NBC News reports: The House Education and Workforce Committee issued subpoenas Wednesday to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Minnesota Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for how they responded to what federal prosecutors have called the largest pandemic fraud schemes in the country. The subpoenas demand that Walz, Minnesota Commissioner of Education Willie Jett, U.S. Agriculture Secretary …

Notes From The Chalkboard reports: According to public records obtained from Guilford County Court, the wife of Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was sued by Tarheel Triad Girl Scouts over “money owed” in Guilford County Small Claims Court in 2003–and the Girl Scouts won. In September of 2003 the Girl Scouts filed suit against Yolanda Hill due to a $2,956.03 …

“Didn’t he go on his honeymoon over to China? He has all these relationships with communist Chinese officials and he’s going to be the vice president? “Isn’t that a national security risk for our country when our top officials have all these close ties to the Communist Party? “Trump is going to win the White House In my state, there …

Via press release from GOP Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds: Gov. Kim Reynolds today announced that Lt. Governor Adam Gregg is stepping down from his position to pursue a career opportunity that allows him to focus more on his family. “It has been a great honor to serve alongside Governor Reynolds for seven years. I have enormous respect for her and …

The Assembly NC reports: In his 2022 memoir, We Are the Majority, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson wrote that he committed his life to Jesus in the late 1980s. “I did not, however, experience a drastic conversion like some do,” wrote Robinson, now the Republican nominee for governor. “My behavior did not immediately reform. They say sin is fun for a …

“I was looking at the leaders of the Democrats and realized how many of the next-gen leaders of the Democrats — It’s Kamala Harris, it’s AOC, it’s a lot of folks like that — they’re not planning to have kids. They don’t have kids. “And I noticed that, you know, not having children, I think, changes the way you think …