Days After Bomb Attacks, NRA Doubles Down on Demonization of Soros, Steyer, Bloomberg
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre speaks at the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum in Dallas on May 4, 2018.Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Less than a week after a MAGA fanatic mailed pipe bombs to critics of President Donald Trump, the National Rifle Association intensified its…
Corporations Are Pulling Their Support From Steve King. These Outfits Are Doubling Down.
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Iowa Republican Steve King has been making liberal jaws drop for years with his inflammatory rhetoric on immigration and race, but that has never stopped corporate PACs from supporting him. However, following revelations of a recent meeting between King and a…
The Only Black Republican Woman Ever Elected to Congress Is at Risk of Losing in a Deep-Red District
Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, participates in a news conference on immigration reform at the Capitol on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. Bill Clark/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mia Love used to be a Republican rock star. She was young, Haitian-American, Mormon, and very conservative. In 2012, when she was running…
12 People on Why They Absolutely Will Vote
College students vote early at the University of California, Irvine.Paul Bersebach/Digital First Media/Orange County Register/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Abhi Agrawal had always been politically aware, but admits he was a “lazy liberal.” He voted in presidential elections, followed the news, and debated politics with his friends. But he…
Pittsburgh Mourns its Jewish Mass Shooting Victims—and Rejects Trump’s Visit
Anti-Trump demonstrators march during the president’s visit.Clint Hendler/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As President Trump came to Pittsburgh on Tuesday afternoon, thousands of residents marched in protest through Squirrel Hill, the historically Jewish neighborhood that is home to Tree of Life, the synagogue where 11 congregants were murdered…
The House Republican Campaign Chairman Finally Condemned Steve King
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, attends a rally for Iowans prior to the anti-abortion March for Life on January 19.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For years, Republican leaders have turned a blind eye to Iowa Rep. Steve King’s countless racist and anti-immigrant comments. But on Tuesday, as…