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Nine American citizens have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022, including an elderly man dragged from his car, a journalist shot in the head, and a 20-year-old beaten to death.
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Congressional Republicans voted to slash Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion over the next ten years, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the cuts will take health insurance from 10 million Americans.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks. Republicans glued the ban to a strict voter ID law, so it died in the Senate 53–47 on September 30. Fifteen Republican senators on this site voted to advance the package, and many of them have stock trading problems of their own.
On September 29, the Senate voted 47–51 against forcing a vote on asking the State Department for a report on nine U.S. citizens killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022. Fourteen Republicans with report cards on this site voted no.
On September 29, thirteen Republican senators on this site voted to keep a Trump administration rule that makes Obamacare coverage harder to get. HHS itself estimates the rule could cost 1.2 million to 2 million people their health insurance.
The joint fundraising PAC behind Marsha Blackburn's campaign for governor sends donor emails with subjects like 'CORRECTION REQUIRED' and 'Notice of Rescindment,' warning of 'permanent' changes to a 'Voter Profile' and 'MAGA loyalty file.' The same week, the Senate passed an anti-scam bill she championed.
A new Health Affairs analysis finds the 2025 budget bill's limits on Medicaid payments will likely force three dozen states to cut what they pay doctors and hospitals by more than $50 billion a year, starting in 2028. Fewer providers are likely to take Medicaid patients. These 76 Republicans on our report cards, from the 15 states facing the biggest cuts, voted yes.
The House passed a resolution ordering U.S. forces out of the Iran war in July. The Senate finally voted on it September 24 and it failed 49-50. Fourteen senators on our report cards voted no — including Jon Husted, who said two days earlier the war 'needs to come to an end as quickly as possible.'
Updated October 12: Keith Self, asked on national TV whether he would debate, called the district 'my seat.' October 10: Cliff Bentz declined four debate invitations because accepting would make his opponent look 'credible,' Jim Pillen called debates 'theater,' and Julie Fedorchak pulled out of North Dakota's public TV debate. Earlier: Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.
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Political ads have always been sleazy, but MAGA Republicans are no longer just stretching the truth: they are using AI and digital tools to manufacture lies.
Greg Abbott's campaign used AI to swap an American flag for a transgender flag in a photo of his opponent talking to a child about a closed school. Ken Paxton scripted a speech his opponent never gave. Marsha Blackburn put hers in a prison jumpsuit. Cindy Hyde-Smith registered a domain in her opponent's name.
Blackburn's campaign built a site calling independent candidate Dave Hatley 'Deadbeat Dave,' photoshopping him into a prison jumpsuit over a 1990s bad-check case he served a month for and wrote a memoir about. In 2018 she voted for the First Step Act, and the felon she wants running the country is the man who signed it.
A list of the Republicans who voted to block the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act went around X this week. We checked all 42 names against the official roll calls. Every one of them voted against the bill — and the record is worse than the list says.
Five weeks into the boat strike campaign, the Senate voted on whether to pull U.S. forces out of a fight Congress never authorized. It failed 48-51. Fourteen Republican senators we track voted no, and thirteen of them voted no every time it came up again.
The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.
S. 5202 would bar federal funds from any research or publication on gender transition in minors. Blackburn and Tuberville cosponsored it on July 30 — two weeks before Medicare's agency published the rule ending Medicaid coverage for the care itself. Both are running for governor.
A year ago Americans were split on AI data centers. Now 75% oppose one in their area. These eight Republicans spent that year helping the build-out along, taking the industry's money, or both. Five have spent the last few weeks repositioning. Three are still making the industry's case.
Republicans put a 12-year cap on congressional service to a House vote in 1995. Four of these men were there for it. Two of them are now in year 45. And five Republicans currently cosponsor a three-term cap while serving their 7th, 10th and 17th terms.
Five state Republican parties have added anti-IVF language to their platforms. In Congress, the SAFE KIDS Act would void surrogacy contracts with citizens of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — and 25 Republicans with report cards here put their names on it.
Ron Wyden says he asked Blackburn's staff repeatedly, from 2024 to 2025, to sign on as the Republican vote needed to subpoena Epstein's bank records. Her office declined. In February 2025 she posted that Democrats had stonewalled her Epstein work 'at every turn.'
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
A tenured Austin Peay professor was fired hours after Blackburn tagged his employer in a post on X. He's now suing her, one day after she won the Republican primary for governor.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
Before leaving town for a month of vacation, the Senate held an overnight vote on a brand-new photo ID bill written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. It failed. Fifteen Republicans we track voted to advance it anyway.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
A 1,000-mile road trip through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky found people who can't afford toilet paper. The unemployment rate hasn't moved. The only thing that changed is the law nearly every Republican in Congress from those states voted for.
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
On July 30 the Senate came one vote short of forcing a debate on Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 13 Republican senators we track voted no — a week after the House told the president to get out.
Tennessee law bars Blackburn from spending her U.S. Senate money on the governor's race. In May she gave $4.8 million to Club for Growth's PAC. By July, a Club for Growth PAC had spent $4.81 million backing her. An OpenSecrets analyst calls it a 'workaround.'
A dark-money group is running an ad calling Blackburn 'queen pharma mama.' Her lawyers say it's defamation. The underlying record — a 2016 law that stripped the DEA's power to immediately freeze suspicious opioid shipments — is real.
New recordings from inside Marsha Blackburn's Senate office allege staff were pressured to do campaign work on the taxpayer's dime — as she runs for governor.
Days after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, Sen. Marsha Blackburn called the ruling disappointing and pushed her 'Ban Birth Tourism Act' — the latest in a long anti-immigrant crusade she's running while she skips her own constituents.
Club for Growth and billionaire Jeff Yass poured $3 million into a PAC boosting Marsha Blackburn's run for governor — and she's the only top candidate '100% behind' expanding private-school vouchers.
In the early morning of June 5, the Senate voted 52-47 to pour nearly $70 billion into ICE and Border Patrol with no oversight, no transparency, and a new slush fund for punishing 'non-cooperating' cities. Here are the senators with report cards on this site who voted yes.
A confidential Senate Ethics Committee investigation targeted Marsha Blackburn's office over allegations it used taxpayer money and staff for her political campaign.
A Tennessee Lookout investigation adds up the money behind Marsha Blackburn's rise: more than $100 million over 20 years, from payday lenders, a private prison company, and billionaires now poised to cash in if she becomes governor.
Weeks after Marsha Blackburn praised data centers as 'good and important' for Tennessee, her campaign reported more than $100,000 from AI and data-center employees — including a top Oracle executive. Her opponents got nothing from Oracle or Anthropic employees.
New campaign filings show 72% of Marsha Blackburn's donors live outside Tennessee, and out-of-state PACs are spending millions to make her governor. Her opponent's money is almost all in-state.
Running for governor, Marsha Blackburn skipped a public forum, won't say if she'll debate, and claimed she'd done 'lots of forums' — until WSMV checked with her opponents and found it wasn't true.
Marsha Blackburn's stunt ad crushing fortune cookies to 'stop communist China' was called 'sickening' and 'unhinged' — while a PAC set up to back her takes $1 million from a top TikTok investor.
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums spike.
