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Twenty-Four Republicans on This Site Have Refused to Debate Their Opponents This Year. Cliff Bentz Turned Down Four Invitations.

Updated October 15: David Rouzer skipped a UNC Wilmington forum and Russell Fry backed out of an NAACP forum six hours before it started; Tom Cotton's only agreed debate fell through. 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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The Sports Betting Industry Gave $200,000 to a Nonprofit Run by Tommy Tuberville's Fundraiser, His Campaign Manager's Wife and One of His Biggest Donors

The Sports Betting Industry Gave $200,000 to a Nonprofit Run by Tommy Tuberville's Fundraiser, His Campaign Manager's Wife and One of His Biggest Donors

A group representing FanDuel and DraftKings gave $200,000 to the Southeastern Conservative Foundation, a dark-money nonprofit formed in July 2025 by people at the center of Tommy Tuberville's run for Alabama governor. Online sports betting is illegal in Alabama, and Tuberville says the next governor should leave gambling to the legislature.

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The Republicans We Cover Keep Putting White Nationalists on the Payroll, the Stage and the Ballot. Asked About It, They Denounce Racism in General and Never Say the Name.

A chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. A political director whose profile picture showed Hitler's SS. A student outreach recruit who asked whether Jews should be sent to North Korea. A swastika flag in a congressman's office. Eight Republicans on this site, one answer.

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Andrew Clyde Filed a Bill to Redraw the House Before 2028 by Not Counting Noncitizens. 38 Republicans We Cover Signed On the Same Day.

Andrew Clyde Filed a Bill to Redraw the House Before 2028 by Not Counting Noncitizens. 38 Republicans We Cover Signed On the Same Day.

H.R. 10377 would drop every noncitizen from the count used to hand out House seats, force a new apportionment before the 2028 election, and put a citizenship question on every future census. The Fourteenth Amendment — which Clyde's filing cites as its authority — says to count 'the whole number of persons in each State.'

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185 House Members We Track Voted to Make States Hand Your Medicaid and Food Stamp Records to Trump's Former Defense Lawyer

On September 16 the House passed the PROOF Act, 217-207. It orders states to turn over whatever Medicaid, SNAP and other benefit records Attorney General Todd Blanche asks for in writing, with no judge involved. A federal court had already blocked the Trump administration from cutting food stamp funding to states that refused to hand over recipient data. 185 of the members who voted yes have report cards on this site.

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Robert Aderholt Says a Report He and 12 Other Republicans We Track Requested Shows Taxpayers Are 'Subsidizing' Abortion. The Report Says Federal Subsidies Can't Pay for It.

Robert Aderholt Says a Report He and 12 Other Republicans We Track Requested Shows Taxpayers Are 'Subsidizing' Abortion. The Report Says Federal Subsidies Can't Pay for It.

Robert Aderholt, Speaker Mike Johnson and 11 other tracked Republicans requested a GAO review of abortion coverage in Obamacare plans. Aderholt and Chris Smith then used it to demand 'full Hyde protections for all ACA plans.' GAO's own summary says federal law already bars tax credits from paying for abortion, that insurers must price that coverage at no less than $1 a month, and that almost every plan that covers it is in a state whose law requires coverage.

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Tommy Tuberville Says Rep. Ilhan Omar, a U.S. Citizen for 26 Years, Should Be Deported: 'Send Her Back Where She Came From.'

Tommy Tuberville Says Rep. Ilhan Omar, a U.S. Citizen for 26 Years, Should Be Deported: 'Send Her Back Where She Came From.'

On Newsmax, the Alabama senator running for governor said Omar 'wants the president to be dead' and should be sent home. Newsmax's own story noted that Tuberville pointed to no statement in which Omar said any such thing. Omar fled Somalia's civil war as a child and became a citizen in 2000; a citizen can't be deported unless a court first strips her citizenship.

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