ProPublica sued to get the Education Department's civil rights data. Under Trump, the office opens about 100 investigations a month, down from 310, while 24,000 complaints poured in. It opened 29 sexual violence investigations out of 200-plus complaints, and more cases about discrimination against males than against females.
Lisa Demuth's general-election pitch is bipartisan and pragmatic. To win her party's nomination, she told activists she 'fights and wins for the MAGA agenda.' She wrote a fetal-heartbeat abortion ban, blocked an assault-weapons ban after the Annunciation shooting, and still won't say Joe Biden legitimately won in 2020.
Tom Tiffany, the Republican running for Wisconsin governor, amplified a Libs of TikTok post targeting an Eau Claire school board member over a Black parents' group. She says what followed were accusations, misogynistic messages, and police keeping watch on her house.
In a new ad, Ashley Moody says she voted to stop taxing tips and Social Security, and that her opponent backed a $4 trillion tax hike on a diner full of working people. PolitiFact found the law didn't end either tax, most of its tax cuts went to high earners, and Angie Nixon's campaign says she wants to repeal only the parts for the rich.
Scott Perry's campaign ad claims his opponent exposed herself to a neighborhood child, flashing an 'AFFIDAVIT' on screen. WITF found the claim has no evidence behind it, the document is a notarized statement from a Perry supporter, and no charges were filed. The ad also repeats a claim about an immigrant that was already debunked.
Roger Marshall spent the summer saying the price of gas in October would decide the midterms, and predicting it would come down. Gas in Kansas is up more than 56% since the Iran war began. Now he says 'there are things more important than money to Kansans.'
Roger Marshall's longtime business partner Dan Tasset runs Nueterra, a private equity firm whose rural hospitals collapsed and left workers unpaid. A Nueterra fund owns two farm-chemical startups his wife invests in, and Marshall wrote the bill that would exempt their products from pesticide regulation.
Tom Tiffany says he won't cut Social Security. But he's floated raising the retirement age, belongs to the caucus whose budget would have raised it to 69, voted to squeeze the agency that pays benefits, and twice cosponsored an amendment AARP warned could force deep cuts.
In 2018, Bill Huizenga called Trump's steel tariffs 'misguided' and warned they could cost West Michigan workers their jobs. In 2025 he said Trump's new tariffs were 'the right thing to do.' That year, three West Michigan employers announced about 350 job cuts.