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Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
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Cindy Hyde-Smith's Fake Campaign Site Now Opens With a Mugshot of Her Opponent at 18. He Says He Was Out Past Curfew.
Two weeks before Election Day, ColomForSenate.com — the Hyde-Smith campaign site built to look like Scott Colom's — pops up an uncaptioned mugshot from a 2001 misdemeanor arrest when he was a high school senior. Asked about it, her campaign manager repeated a 'sex change surgeries' claim the site's own source doesn't support.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Mississippi Republicans sent health insurance bills through the roof #maga #mississippi #healthcare
Mississippi Republicans sent health insurance bills through the roof for thousands of working families.
Every Mississippi Republican in Congress Voted Against Keeping Health Insurance Affordable. About 70,000 Mississippians Have Since Dropped Their Coverage.
Cindy Hyde-Smith, Trent Kelly, Michael Guest and Mike Ezell all voted against extending the tax credits that kept Affordable Care Act plans affordable. Once the credits ran out, enrollment in Mississippi fell by about 70,000 people — nearly one in four.
Trump's Budget Bill Will Likely Force States to Cut Medicaid Payments to Doctors and Hospitals by More Than $50 Billion a Year. 76 Republicans We Track From the Hardest-Hit States Voted for It.
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.
A Reporter Asked Cindy Hyde-Smith One Question About Nolan Wells, the Black Mississippi Teen Whose Death Is Still Unexplained. She Called Capitol Police.
Days after a grand jury declined to charge anyone in 18-year-old Nolan Wells' death, a reporter tried to ask Mississippi's senator about it in a Capitol hallway. She said 'I don't do hallway interviews' and, TheGrio reported, asked a security desk to have him removed.
The House Voted to End Trump's Iran War. On September 24, 14 Republican Senators We Track Killed It by One Vote.
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.'
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.
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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MAGA Republicans are faking their attack ads
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.
Cindy Hyde-Smith Was Recorded Suggesting Her Opponent's Supporters May Have Been Involved in a Shooting Near Her Home. It Happened Two Years Before He Ran.
In audio from an August 31 campaign stop, Hyde-Smith brought up the 2023 gunfire near her Brookhaven home, said the shooter was 'in prison where he belongs' — then said Scott Colom's supporters could 'get caught up in it.' Colom didn't enter the race until September 2025. Her campaign won't say what she meant.
Republicans Running in 2026 Keep Manufacturing Their Opponents: A Doctored Flag, an AI Monologue, a Photoshopped Prison Uniform, and a Website Pretending to Be the Other Guy's
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.
Cindy Hyde-Smith Launched a Website Made to Look Like Her Opponent's. Its Headline Attack Cites a Letter in Which the Word Surgery Never Appears.
Her campaign registered ColomForSenate.com to imitate Scott Colom's real site, ScottColom.com, and calls him the 'transgender defender' who 'pushed radical sex change surgeries for children.' The 2021 letter it cites is the only document linked anywhere on the site, and the word surgery does not appear in it once.
Fifty Republican Senators Voted Against Even Debating an End to the Boat Strikes. A Year Into the Campaign, 227 People Are Dead in a "Year of Murders".
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.
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Prices are up. Twelve Republicans say that's your problem.
Everything costs more right now.
Cindy Hyde-Smith Hasn't Debated an Opponent Since 2018. Her Campaign's Answer to 'Where's Cindy' Was a Line About George Soros's Apartment.
Asked to hold a single town hall anywhere in Mississippi — 'she can pick the reddest county in the state' — Hyde-Smith's campaign manager replied that she isn't in Soros's New York apartment promoting surgery for children. Election Day is November 3.
Twelve Republicans We Track Told Voters High Prices Aren't Really a Problem. One Said to Pick a Different Protein.
A NOTUS column collected what Republican candidates have been saying about the cost of living. Twelve of them have report cards on this site. Their answers range from 'earn more' to 'the Democrats invented this term affordability.'
Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.
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.
Three Out of Four Americans Oppose Data Centers Near Their Homes. These Eight Republicans Spent the Year Helping the Build-Out. Five Have Since Discovered Concerns.
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.
Congress Gave ICE $70 Billion and No Rules on Conduct. Now ICE Is Buying Electric Shock Gloves.
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 State Had to Sue the Federal Government to Investigate Child Sex Crimes. Three Days Later, 50 Republicans Promoted the Man It Sued.
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.
At 4:17 in the Morning, 50 Republican Senators Handed the Justice Department to Trump's Former Personal Lawyer
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.
At 4:36 in the Morning, 52 Republican Senators Voted to Advance a New Hurdle Between You and the Ballot Box
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.
Cindy Hyde-Smith Told Federal Regulators Mississippi Is 'at the Forefront of Safeguarding Ratepayers.' Mississippi Hid the Contract.
Two months after a report estimated Entergy's residential customers had already paid $38 million toward Amazon's data centers, Hyde-Smith praised her state's protection of ratepayers — using her utility donor's own slogan.
Cindy Hyde-Smith Told Mississippi 'Medicaid Is Not Going Anywhere.' Then She Voted to Cut It — and Signed On to Bills to Save the Hospitals.
Three rural hospital rescue bills in five months, from the senator who voted for the law taking billions out of rural health care. Twenty-four Mississippi rural hospitals are now rated vulnerable to closure.
Cindy Hyde-Smith Used a Jim Crow-Era Tool to Block a Judge. Now He's on Her Ballot.
Roger Wicker backed him. So did two Republican governors. One senator killed the nomination by refusing to hand in a slip of paper — using a procedure a Mississippi segregationist invented to keep civil rights judges off the bench.
ICE Is Reading Your Posts. Congress Paid for It.
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.
14 Republican Senators Just Voted to Let Your Child Care Bill Go Up
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.
The Senate Has Now Voted 13 Times on Ending the Iran War. These 13 Republicans Voted No Every Time It Mattered.
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.
The 4 Best States in America Don't Have a Single Republican in Congress
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut rank #1 through #4 on the 17 measures we track. Between them they send 25 people to Congress — and not one is a Republican. The four worst states send 24 Republicans.
The Republicans With the Worst Records on Abortion
Four years after Roe fell, 41 states have abortion bans on the books. These Republicans didn't just go along with it — they wrote the bills, filed the briefs, and are working to take it national.
What Mississippi's Republicans in Congress Are Costing You
Mississippi ranks 48th of 50 on the measures we track — and its Republicans in Congress just voted to cut Medicaid, food aid, and jobs on top of it.
52 Republican Senators Just Voted to Hand ICE Nearly $70 Billion
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.
12 Republican Senators We Track Just Voted to Keep Us in Trump's Iran War
One day after the Senate told Trump to get U.S. forces out of the Iran war, these Republicans helped block a second resolution — handing Trump a win and ducking Congress's duty to decide on war.
The Republicans With the Worst Records on Guns
Every day, nearly 130 Americans are killed with guns. These six Republicans keep voting to make it easier — one of them even profits from selling them.
197 Republicans Voted to Spike Your Health Insurance Premiums
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.