Hilton's Spanish-language ad shows a hulking, mustached player knocking down teenage girls, then cuts to a computer-generated Becerra taking the blame. The words in the fake Becerra's mouth are Hilton's. Becerra's real position is that sports bodies should decide who plays, and he backs California's current law.
A States United Action count finds nearly 200 Republicans who backed Trump's attempt to overturn 2020 on this November's ballot. Capital & Main profiled nine who have report cards on this site — six voted on Jan. 6 to throw out two states' results, and some won't say they'd certify the next one.
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Brandon Gill introduced a bill to stop people from buying hot meals with food assistance, calling it a "fast-food loophole."
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Ashley Moody went to bat for Alligator Alcatraz, Florida's Everglades detention camp.
Vivek Ramaswamy pushed Ohio Republicans to put photo ID for voters into the state constitution, and it's on the November ballot. In 2024, Rhode Island election officials found dead residents' names on the nomination papers his presidential campaign submitted, and his campaign confirmed a hired signature-gatherer had forged them on purpose.
In the last month of Pennsylvania's governor's race, Stacy Garrity raised $5.3 million — nearly five times what she'd raised in the whole campaign before. $4.5 million of it came from three skill-game donors. Gov. Shapiro wants to tax the machines like casino slots, at 52%. Garrity wants a $500 fee per machine, the same figure the industry backs.
In audio from an October fundraiser obtained by the Nevada Current, Gov. Joe Lombardo called Nevada the easiest place in the nation to vote — then added 'unfortunately,' to laughter. He has spent his term trying to roll back mail voting, and twice vetoed bills to punish fake presidential electors.
The Ohio Senate unanimously passed a one-year window for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to sue over assaults as old as 35 years. After Catholic Church lobbying, a House committee stripped it out. On March 29, 2006, state Rep. Bob Latta was one of 57 House members who voted against putting it back.
On a 2022 podcast, hosts read Brandon Herrera a news report about a disabled 2-year-old from Greenville, Texas, with his name who was whipped and beaten to death. Herrera, now the Republican nominee in Texas's 23rd District, joked he could have been killed and 'brought back on the third day to be the AK Jesus.'