The House Voted 409 to 2 to Protect Deepfake Victims. Eric Burlison Was One of the Two.
Burlison said Missouri already had laws covering AI deepfakes. Missouri didn't. Lawmakers there have now failed to pass one five times running.
MAGA is Ruining America
Mark Alford Wants the Government to Investigate a Halftime Show He Admits He Couldn't Understand
Missouri's congressman went on cable TV and said House Republicans are investigating Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance — then admitted, 'I don't speak fluent Spanish, okay?' He also sits on the subcommittee that writes the FCC's budget.
Vivek Ramaswamy's Website Says He's 'Fighting to Lift All Ohioans.' Equality Ohio Just Gave Him an F.
Equality Ohio's 2026 scorecard rates Ramaswamy as having a 'poor record and likely to harm LGBTQ+ civil rights.' At DOGE, his staff searched federal grants for the keyword 'LGBTQ' to decide what to cancel.
Tom Tiffany Wants to Break Up the DNR 'For Sportsmen.' The State's Own Audit Says 90% of That Money Already Goes to Them.
Tiffany told a tavern crowd he's open to splitting Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources so hunting and fishing are separated from environmental permitting. The state's largest sportsmen's group says the real problem is license fees frozen since 2005 — and a former DNR secretary says a split gives Republicans 'one agency they can feed and one they can starve.'
Greg Abbott Threatened to Take Over Corpus Christi's Water. The Agency He Actually Controls Is Broke.
Abbott appoints all 21 board members of the Nueces River Authority and can remove them. It may run out of money for its desalination plant by the end of August. He has no such power over the city council he's threatening to take over — and he's fighting to keep his emails with the river authority secret.
27% of Households in David Valadao's District Are on Food Stamps. He Says He's Not Worried About the Cuts.
Valadao's Central Valley district has one of the highest SNAP rates in the country. He cast a deciding vote for the bill that cut it — the House passed it 215 to 214 — and told HuffPost the drop in enrollment doesn't worry him.
Christine Drazan Started a Nonprofit to 'Improve Transparency.' It Paid $96,000 to a Company She Owns.
A New Direction had no conflict of interest policy in 2023 or 2024 — the two years it paid Drazan's consulting firm $96,000. Her husband was the nonprofit's president. It went quiet four days before she announced she was running again.
The Richest Man on Earth Is Coming to Maine to Keep Susan Collins in Office
Elon Musk's America PAC has authorized up to $120 million across eight states, and Maine is on the target list. Updated August 14: the Senate Leadership Fund has committed $42 million of its own — though FEC filings show only $776,326 of it has actually been spent so far.
Missourians Crushed Amendments 4 and 5 by 80 and 83 Percent. Their Congressmen Helped Build the Gerrymander Behind One of Them.
Missouri voters buried two Republican ballot measures on Aug. 4 — one to hand a single congressional district veto power over citizen initiatives, one to swap the income tax for higher sales taxes. Four of Missouri's five Republican congressmen backed the gerrymander that made the first one work.