Oct 09, 2026

Four Republican Senate Candidates Wouldn't Say How They'd Stop Social Security's 22% Benefit Cut. Ashley Hinson Brought Up Millennials' Savings Habits.

States Newsroom asked Senate candidates in nine close races what they'd do about the automatic Social Security cut coming in 2032. Dan Sullivan, Roger Marshall, Michael Whatley and Jon Husted didn't respond. Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson offered promises with no plan — weeks after Paxton was recorded telling lobbyists 'we have to suck it up' on spending cuts.

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Oct 06, 2026

Roger Marshall Put a Photo of Kids at a Kansas Summer Camp in an Ad About Child Abuse. The Camp Never Gave Permission — and the Abuse Didn't Happen There.

Tall Oaks Camp in Linwood says Marshall's attack ad on Adam Hamilton used a photo of young people in its chapel without permission, creating 'a misleading association' with abuse that 'did not happen here.' His campaign said the ad was 'corrected' — hours later, a version online still had the chapel in it.

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Oct 04, 2026

Republicans Cut Medicaid by Nearly $1 Trillion. They Scheduled the Pain for After You Vote.

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.

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Oct 03, 2026

Chris Smith Led 128 Republicans in Asking for a Federal Probe of Planned Parenthood. They Asked Whether It 'Illegally Received $88 Million.' Nobody Has Found That.

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.

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Oct 02, 2026

Republicans Tied a Weak Stock Trading Ban to a Voter ID Law. It Failed. One Republican Says That Was the Plan.

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.

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Oct 02, 2026

Nine Americans Were Killed in the West Bank. These Republican Senators Voted Not to Even Ask What Happened.

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.

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Oct 01, 2026

13 Senate Republicans Voted to Keep a Trump Rule That HHS Says Will Cost Up to 2 Million People Their Health Insurance

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.

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Sep 30, 2026

Roger Marshall Calls a Former Patient's Ad 'a Complete Lie.' His Own Lawyers' Letter Doesn't Deny His Practice Sued Her and She Was Arrested.

Roger Marshall's lawyers sent Adam Hamilton a cease-and-desist letter over an ad featuring Meischa Zimmerman, one of the 700-plus patients his practice sued. The letter argues over why she was arrested — not whether.

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Sep 26, 2026

Roger Marshall Voted to Give ICE Nearly $70 Billion and Said 'Nothing Has Changed in How ICE Operates.' Now ICE Is in Dodge City and He's in a Close Race.

For a year, Roger Marshall cheered ICE and voted to fund it. Now that immigration raids have hit Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal, shut down meatpacking lines and caught local police by surprise, and a new poll shows him narrowly trailing, he wants ICE to 'coordinate with our local law enforcement.'

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