Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Thursday became the first GOP lawmaker to call for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office. It came a day after a pro-Trump mob stormed and ransacked MORE
“We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night, “and so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” Republicans in Congress are pretending to MORE
Hawley’s announcement that he will object to the certification of the election results from at least one state on January 6 turns what was going to be a ceremonial process into an actual headache for MORE
Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, who won a runoff earlier this month to represent Louisiana’s Baton Rouge area, died Tuesday from complications of COVID-19. Letlow was set to be sworn in as U.S. representative for the state’s MORE
President Donald Trump has spent his final weeks in office much as he has the preceding years: setting fire to the relationships that buttressed his rise to power. Over the past few days, the president has MORE
Michigan Republican Rep. Paul Mitchell told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the election have led him to request that the clerk of the House MORE
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said voting rights activist Stacey Abrams “conned” Georgia election officials, leading to a Democratic presidential win there for the first time in nearly two decades. Graham took issue with voter signature checks in the state MORE
The Arizona Republican Party late Monday asked supporters if they were willing to give their lives in the fight over the results of the presidential election. The party retweeted right-wing activist Ali Alexander’s promise that he is “willing to MORE
Associated Press: The Arizona Republican Party has asked a judge to bar Maricopa County from certifying its Nov. 3 election results, including Democrat Joe Biden’s win over President Donald Trump, until the court issues a MORE
On Tuesday, the two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers voted against certifying the county’s November election results for the county’s 43 jurisdictions, including Detroit, Michigan’s largest voting jurisdiction. Tuesday was the MORE
GOP figures have been pushing a desperate last-ditch plan to subvert the election and secure President Donald Trump another term. Under the plan, state officials would be prevented from certifying a Biden win. GOP legislators MORE
An update to a previous article: Judge Andrew Hanen, a federal judge appointed by former president George W. Bush, ruled against Texas Republicans suing to toss more than 127,000 ballots because they were cast in drive-thru voting booths in MORE
The state of play: They’re relying almost exclusively on a shrinking demographic (white men), living in shrinking areas (small, rural towns), creating a reliance on people with shrinking incomes (white workers without college degrees) to survive. Why it MORE
“We are going to continue this program. If he wants to take us to court, then we’ll see him court,” said Hector Barajas, spokesman for the California Republican Party. After California Secretary of State Alex MORE
“Operating unofficial ballot drop boxes – especially those misrepresented as official drop boxes – is not just misleading to voters, it’s a violation of state law,” Padilla said, with a felony conviction carrying a prison MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The vote to renominate President Donald Trump is set to be conducted in private later this month, without members of the press present, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Convention, citing the MORE
Senate Republicans released their coronavirus relief legislation on Monday after much anticipation, and buried in the bill is a non-pandemic related provision — $1.75 billion to build a new FBI headquarters in Washington, DC. Democrats MORE
In a nutshell: Agreed to continue funding testing. Moscow Mitch originally wanted to roll out band-aid solutions then continued negotiations instead. Even Republicans do not favor Trump’s useless payroll tax cut that would defund both MORE
The Texas Supreme Court in a 7-1 decision delivered Monday rejected the state Republican Party’s appeal to force an in-person convention in Houston after city officials cancelled the event due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The MORE
Republican lawmakers demanded answers from the White House about reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin had put bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan and that the U.S. had taken no action in response. In his MORE
By most conventional indicators, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming a one-term president. The economy is a wreck, the coronavirus persists, and his poll numbers have deteriorated. But throughout the Republican Party’s vast organization MORE
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted on Thursday to grant Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) broad subpoena authority as part of a probe stemming from the Obama administration. In a party-line vote, Republicans MORE
Trump took to Twitter on Monday to threaten moving the GOP convention from North Carolina unless the governor allows “full attendance.” North Carolina is currently in Phase Two of its coronavirus reopening plan. Indoor gatherings MORE
‘Shockingly irresponsible’: Kansas GOP risks lives by rejecting governor’s church order Source: Five Kansas lawmakers took a stunning, dangerous step Wednesday by voting to overturn Gov. Laura Kelly’s executive order limiting church services to 10 or fewer congregants during the COVID-19 MORE
As Senate Republicans try to push through a $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief bill this week, they are doing so without a handful of votes in the closely divided chamber: Sens. Rand Paul, Mitt Romney and Mike Lee. MORE