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Elon Musk's Super PAC Is Spending $5.1 Million on the Midterms, Almost All of It in Races With 18 Republicans on This Site. It Spent $3.7 Million of That Attacking Democrats.

America PAC has reported $5.1 million in independent spending this cycle. Eighteen Republicans with report cards on this site are the main beneficiaries — and nearly three-quarters of the money went to attack ads, not to making a case for them.

Brandon Herrera Compared Women's Weight to Whales, Elephants and Nuclear Bombs. He Wants the Seat a Congressman Quit During a Sexual Misconduct Investigation.

Brandon Herrera Compared Women's Weight to Whales, Elephants and Nuclear Bombs. He Wants the Seat a Congressman Quit During a Sexual Misconduct Investigation.

A CNN review of Brandon Herrera's videos, podcasts and social media found years of comments mocking women's weight, looks and intelligence. He called them jokes. He is the Republican nominee in a district whose last congressman resigned during a House Ethics investigation into sexual misconduct allegations, and his opponent is a woman.

State of the State: Texas Is 40th Overall. Greg Abbott and Texan Republicans in Congress Aren't Helping.

Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.

Greg Abbott Left Home Insurance Off His List of Seven Emergency Priorities. Eighteen Months Later He Says Premiums Are Up 79%.

Greg Abbott Left Home Insurance Off His List of Seven Emergency Priorities. Eighteen Months Later He Says Premiums Are Up 79%.

Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Insurance to act on home insurance costs on August 24, 2026, citing a 79% premium increase in six years. In 2025 his Legislature killed both bills that would have addressed it, insurance was not one of his seven emergency items, and it was not on his 18-item special session agenda either.

Greg Abbott Signed the 'Largest Property Tax Cut in Texas History.' Texans' Property Tax Bills Went From $51 Billion to $89 Billion.

Greg Abbott Signed the 'Largest Property Tax Cut in Texas History.' Texans' Property Tax Bills Went From $51 Billion to $89 Billion.

Abbott's new affordability plan promises to cut property taxes in half by zeroing out school taxes on homesteads. He has been governor since 2015, and statewide property tax levies have risen from $51.2 billion to $89.4 billion on his watch. Nearly 4 in 10 homesteads already owe no school tax, and Texas's 4.1 million renters get nothing.

In One Sitting, Susan Collins Voted Against Equal Pay, Paid Sick Days, and the Right to Join a Union. She Also Backed an Amendment to Cut Seasonal Workers Out of the Sick Leave Bill.

In One Sitting, Susan Collins Voted Against Equal Pay, Paid Sick Days, and the Right to Join a Union. She Also Backed an Amendment to Cut Seasonal Workers Out of the Sick Leave Bill.

On June 21, 2023, the Senate labor committee took up three bills: equal pay, seven paid sick days a year, and the right to organize. All three passed on a party-line 11-10 vote. Collins, a Republican on that committee, was on the losing side of every one, and backed amendments to weaken two of them.

Tom Barrett Wrote a Budget That Would Have Cut Off Jail Money to Any Michigan County That Wouldn't Hold People for ICE. One of Them Was Ingham, Which He Now Represents.

Tom Barrett Wrote a Budget That Would Have Cut Off Jail Money to Any Michigan County That Wouldn't Hold People for ICE. One of Them Was Ingham, Which He Now Represents.

As a Michigan state senator running the corrections budget, Barrett inserted language stripping jail reimbursement from counties that limited cooperation with ICE. Kent County stood to lose $1.1 million a year, Wayne County $1.5 million. Michigan's own corrections department opposed it and the governor vetoed it.