The Bangor Daily News ran the numbers on 10,076 votes. Collins really has broken with her party on decisive votes more than any other senator of her era — and 72% of the time her deciding vote went to the Republicans. Under this Trump term, she's broken four times.
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.
More than 150 people gathered outside Collins' Biddeford office over her vote for $70 billion in new ICE funding. One of them was Alessia Gaspar Da Silva, whose husband has been in ICE custody for seven months.
The STOCK Act asks members of Congress to do one thing: tell us what they bought and sold, within 45 days. Forty-five of the Republicans on this site couldn't manage it — some by years. The penalty is $200, and it's often waived.
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.
Charles built his campaign on 18 months running the State Department bureau that trained police in Iraq and Afghanistan. A 2005 audit of that exact tenure called his front office 'structurally dysfunctional.' His answer was to call the reporting fake news.
Thirteen days before the Republican primary, Maine's ethics commission voted 4-0 to find out who paid for midgleyexposed.com. The Charles campaign denies that one — while confirming under oath it built two other attack sites against its own primary opponents.
A right-wing account clipped four words from a 2022 interview. Bobby Charles turned it into roughly 20 posts, a petition demanding a state representative apologize or resign, and eventually a campaign plan to stop the 'Islamification' of Maine.
Charles built a campaign ad around raising Maine's homestead exemption. More than 327,000 Mainers claim that break every year. His own town says he hasn't since moving back — and his campaign still can't say how he'd pay to expand it.
