Five weeks after calling an attack on Amy Acton something that 'must never be tolerated,' Jon Husted answered a beating at a Trump rally held for him by talking about the 'consequences' of interrupting — and admitted he hadn't watched the video.
Ashley Hinson's Senate ad claims she 'voted to release the Epstein files' and calls her opponent a liar. X's Community Note fills in the rest: she voted yes in November 2025 only after a discharge petition she never signed forced the bill to the floor — and in July 2025 she voted with every Republican who voted to block an earlier vote on releasing them.
Billionaire Glenn Dubin, whom an Epstein accuser named under oath, gave $6,600 to Vivek Ramaswamy's presidential campaign and $100,000 to the super PAC backing it. When Fox News reported it, Ramaswamy's campaign said it would give away the $6,600. The super PAC kept the $100,000 — and when it shut down, it sent its last $116,816 to the committee that is now V-PAC, the super PAC backing Ramaswamy for Ohio governor.
Sky and Amanda Roberts — the brother and sister-in-law of Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre — appear in a new ad against the Colorado Springs Republican. Crank's campaign says he 'voted to release the Epstein files.' He did, once the vote was 427-1. When it was 211-210, he voted to block it.
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Steve Womack voted alongside House Republicans for months to block the release of the Epstein files, burying millions of pages of evidence about a global sex trafficking ring that UN human rights experts say shows credible evidence of crimes against humanity, sexual slavery and torture.
The Justice Department has released about half of the Epstein files a 2025 law ordered out. Every House Democrat and four Republicans backed a petition to force a vote on a follow-up bill. Kansas Rep. Derek Schmidt told a town hall he wouldn't, because he prefers to 'work with the leadership.'
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Two weeks after promising to work 'every day that's on the calendar,' the Speaker canceled the last two weeks of September — then cut the final Thursday too, the day a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth could have been forced. An Epstein files petition was left short of the 218 signatures it needs. The House has held a recorded vote on 72 of the year's 259 days, and has enacted 110 laws this Congress.
Michigan's Republican Senate nominee argued that people named in the Epstein files need protecting if there's no evidence of a crime. FEC records show seven of them have given more than $4.6 million to his campaign, his committees and the super PAC backing him — $4.5 million of it from Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman.