ArchiveFebruary 2023

Waukesha County Judge Jennifer Dorow and her husband are working on opening a gun range in Delafield, Wisconsin, at which they plan to host family events and serve alcohol. Dorow is one of two conservatives running to compete in the April 2023 election for a Wisconsin state Supreme Court seat, the results of which could flip the chamber’s current 4-3 conservative majority. If Democrats win...

In the first two years of his presidency, President Joe Biden has successfully enacted significant legislation affecting millions of Americans, while also implementing progressive changes in policy affecting such issues as health care, climate change, and racism. After Biden was elected in 2020, Democratic wins in runoff elections in Georgia in January 2021 gave the party full but narrow control...

In the first five weeks of 2023, there have already been more than 4,200 deaths from gun violence in the United States and at least 60 mass shootings — a rate of more than one per day — according to the Gun Violence Archive. Rather than take action to curb the proliferation of firearms, House Republicans are proposing a tax cut for gun transfers. On Thursday, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) and 17 GOP...

The National Republican Senatorial Committee on Tuesday expressed support for Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks’ campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2024. On Thursday, Banks declared in a column for the right-wing site Townhall, “I’m Running for Senate to Protect Girls’ Sports from Woke Radicalism.” While other Republicans in the state have not yet announced whether...

Republican leaders who repeatedly praised positive economic developments under former President Donald Trump were silent following the release on Friday of better-than-expected employment news. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 517,000 jobs were added to the economy in January and the unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, the lowest rate since May 1969. Under Trump, unemployment reached as...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) released a new ad this week attacking President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats for what he called “dumb” economic policies and touting his own “Rescue America” package as the way to “grow the economy, bottom up, naturally and organically.” Though his 12-point plan includes an “America First” section, Scott’s ad...

CNN host Kaitlan Collins on Thursday pressed Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on his recent claims that Democrats had “cut Medicare” by $280 billion — when in reality the law merely reduced the price the program is charged for prescription drug benefits. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act achieved an estimated $280 billion in savings by allowing the government to negotiate directly with...

Juan Pablo Segura, a wealthy Republican businessman, kicked off his campaign for a key Virginia state Senate seat on Saturday by attacking educational equity efforts; using an antisemitic trope to attack progressive prosecutors; and vowing to fight against the “woke agenda” of the political left. In the same speech, he presented himself as a uniter focused on “common sense...

U.S.-based auto manufacturers Tesla and Ford recently announced significant reductions in the prices they charge for electric vehicles, putting those prices at a level that will allow buyers to take advantage of tax credits that were signed into law by President Joe Biden and became available in January 2023. Beginning on Jan. 1, some consumers can claim up to $7,500 in federal tax credits when...

Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) raised more than twice the amount from residents of Maryland as he did from residents of West Virginia, where he’s running for Senate in 2024, according to a review of Mooney’s fourth-quarter fundraising report. Mooney raised just $14,700 from West Virginia residents over the last three months of 2022, according to a document his campaign filed with the Federal...