A Tampa Bay Times analysis found 17 of the 18 billionaires funding Florida's governor race backed Byron Donalds, for $23.3 million — and two-thirds of his $131 million came from donors who gave $10,000 or more.
Texas v. Kennedy began as a fight over transgender people. Ken Paxton's Texas was one of five states that stayed in after most others quit — and a judge has now erased the rule telling states to serve disabled people in their homes instead of institutions.
A super PAC backing Ken Paxton reported a $250,000 check from a Plano 'entrepreneur' who doesn't live there, at an address that is a rented mailbox. The money came from the son of a family friend whose tax-fraud pardon Paxton helped win.
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.
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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Banning abortion in their own states wasn't enough.
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Oregon Republican Cliff Bentz went on national TV to demand budget cuts, saying we all need to make sacrifices.
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Jeff Van Drew went on national television during New Jersey's drone panic and told millions of Americans an Iranian "mothership" was parked off the East Coast launching drones.
Days after the Supreme Court let the Trump administration resume using its rebuilt SAVE citizenship database, Nevada's Republican governor wrote to the secretary of state urging him to use it on voters in the run-up to November — the same tool that wrongly flagged hundreds of citizens in Missouri and Texas.
