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Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
Articles about Tom Cotton
A Russian-Born Ballroom Donor Got a Fast Pass Around Russia Sanctions and a $201 Million Federal Fund. His Money Also Went to Ten Republicans on This Site.
Konstantin Sokolov gave to Trump's White House ballroom days before his company asked Treasury for a license to get around Russia sanctions. He got it in 10 weeks, used it to buy a copper mine from a sanctioned Russian bank, and was put in charge of $201 million in State Department money. FEC records show he also gave to committees raising money for Susan Collins, Pete Ricketts, Dan Sullivan, Vivek Ramaswamy and six more Republicans on this site.
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9 Americans killed in the West Bank. 50 Senate Republicans won't ask why #maga #alabama #maine
Nine American citizens have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022, including an elderly man dragged from his car, a journalist shot in the head, and a 20-year-old beaten to death.
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Republicans gutted Medicaid and timed the worst of it for after you vote #maga #louisiana #medicaid
Congressional Republicans voted to slash Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion over the next ten years, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the cuts will take health insurance from 10 million Americans.
Republicans Cut Medicaid by Nearly $1 Trillion. They Scheduled the Pain for After You Vote.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
Republicans Tied a Weak Stock Trading Ban to a Voter ID Law. It Failed. One Republican Says That Was the Plan.
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.
Nine Americans Were Killed in the West Bank. These Republican Senators Voted Not to Even Ask What Happened.
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.
13 Senate Republicans Voted to Keep a Trump Rule That HHS Says Will Cost Up to 2 Million People Their Health Insurance
On September 29, thirteen Republican senators on this site voted to keep a Trump administration rule that makes Obamacare coverage harder to get. HHS itself estimates the rule could cost 1.2 million to 2 million people their health insurance.
Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton Still Haven't Agreed to a Single Debate. Tom Cotton Is Skipping Arkansas TV's Debates for One on a Christian Conservative Network.
Five weeks before Election Day, Greg Abbott hasn't accepted a debate with Gina Hinojosa, Ken Paxton has committed to none after promising 'of course' he'd debate James Talarico, and Tom Cotton is sitting out Arkansas TV's debates in favor of one hosted by Salem Media.
The House Voted to End Trump's Iran War. On September 24, 14 Republican Senators We Track Killed It by One Vote.
The House passed a resolution ordering U.S. forces out of the Iran war in July. The Senate finally voted on it September 24 and it failed 49-50. Fourteen senators on our report cards voted no — including Jon Husted, who said two days earlier the war 'needs to come to an end as quickly as possible.'
Twenty-Four Republicans on This Site Have Refused to Debate Their Opponents This Year. Cliff Bentz Turned Down Four Invitations.
Updated October 15: David Rouzer skipped a UNC Wilmington forum and Russell Fry backed out of an NAACP forum six hours before it started; Tom Cotton's only agreed debate fell through. October 12: Keith Self, asked on national TV whether he would debate, called the district 'my seat.' October 10: Cliff Bentz declined four debate invitations because accepting would make his opponent look 'credible,' Jim Pillen called debates 'theater,' and Julie Fedorchak pulled out of North Dakota's public TV debate. Earlier: Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.
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Tom Cotton represents Arkansas, but he barely even visits
Officially, Tom Cotton's residence is a tiny 900-square-foot apartment in Little Rock, but his own neighbors say they never see him, and one across the hall didn't even know anyone lived there.
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A fake "Arkansas" PAC is trying to buy the election for Tom Cotton
A group called "Arkansans for Democracy and Justice" is flooding Arkansas with attack ads, but it is registered in Alabama, uses out-of-state vendors and hasn't received a single dime from actual Arkansans.
Tom Cotton Asked for His Arkansas Ballot to Be Mailed to Virginia. Mike Rogers Campaigned From His Florida Mansion. Zach Lahn's Plane Spent More Nights in Kansas Than at His Iowa Home.
Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
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MAGA Republicans let polluters poison our air
Power plants that burn coal, gas and oil put out about a quarter of all the climate pollution in the United States.
Trump's EPA Is Scrapping the Limits on Carbon Pollution From Power Plants. 17 Republicans on Our Report Cards Pushed for It.
Biden's EPA estimated the power plant carbon rules would prevent up to 1,200 early deaths and 360,000 cases of asthma symptoms in 2035 alone. On September 14, Lee Zeldin announced they're gone. Fifteen Republicans we track cheered the repeal in the EPA's own press release; four signed a letter asking the EPA to hurry up.
Fifty Republican Senators Voted Against Even Debating an End to the Boat Strikes. A Year Into the Campaign, 227 People Are Dead in a "Year of Murders".
Five weeks into the boat strike campaign, the Senate voted on whether to pull U.S. forces out of a fight Congress never authorized. It failed 48-51. Fourteen Republican senators we track voted no, and thirteen of them voted no every time it came up again.
Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.
The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.
Your Town Fought a Data Center. Seven Republicans Decided You Might Be Working for China.
71% of Americans don't want a data center near them. Rather than answer them, these members asked the FBI and the Justice Department to investigate who's funding the opposition — while researchers who actually looked for a Chinese campaign said: 'We haven't found much.'
Every State Has a Squad That Catches People Who Abuse Nursing Home Patients. Thirteen Republicans Want Them Investigating You Instead.
A bill in Congress would point state Medicaid fraud investigators at the people who apply for Medicaid. Right now those investigators chase companies that overbill and caregivers who hurt patients — and they bring back $4.64 for every $1 they cost.
Republicans Once Voted for a 12-Year Limit on Congress. Forty-Six on This Site Are Already Past It — by 909 Years.
Republicans put a 12-year cap on congressional service to a House vote in 1995. Four of these men were there for it. Two of them are now in year 45. And five Republicans currently cosponsor a three-term cap while serving their 7th, 10th and 17th terms.
200,000 Arkansans Could Lose the Coverage They Have. The Rule Doing It Came From the Bill Arkansas's Republicans Passed.
The Trump administration won't renew the Medicaid waiver that runs Arkansas's private option, citing authority from the 2025 budget bill. Every Arkansas Republican in Congress voted for that bill.
Tom Cotton Came Home to Praise Medicaid. Two Weeks Earlier, 200,000 Arkansans' Coverage Got an Expiration Date.
The Trump administration rejected Arkansas's request to renew ARHOME, the program insuring more than 200,000 low-income Arkansans. Cotton voted for the law behind the rejection, then called Medicaid important.
Congress Gave ICE $70 Billion and No Rules on Conduct. Now ICE Is Buying Electric Shock Gloves.
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.
A Super PAC Called 'Arkansans for Democracy and Justice' Is Attacking Tom Cotton's Opponent. It's Registered in Alabama, and Not One Arkansan Has Given It a Dime.
FEC filings show the group has taken $0.00 from individual donors, got its entire $200,000 from a Virginia super PAC that's now spent $2.5 million attacking Cotton's opponent, and spent every dollar of its campaign money against her.
Tom Cotton Wrote a Bill Ordering the President to Share More U.S. Intelligence With Israel — and Making It Harder to Ever Stop
Section 622 of the intelligence bill Cotton wrote as committee chairman requires the president to expand intelligence sharing with Israel and bars him from cutting it back without filing a report to Congress. Pro-Israel PACs have given Cotton $1.1 million.
Tom Cotton Says Your Worries About Data Centers Are Valid. Then He Asked the Justice Department to Investigate the People Raising Them.
In a June letter, Arkansas's junior senator conceded that Americans have 'valid concerns' about data centers driving up energy costs — and in the same breath asked the DOJ to open a foreign-agent investigation into the groups organizing against them.
A State Had to Sue the Federal Government to Investigate Child Sex Crimes. Three Days Later, 50 Republicans Promoted the Man It Sued.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
At 4:17 in the Morning, 50 Republican Senators Handed the Justice Department to Trump's Former Personal Lawyer
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
At 4:36 in the Morning, 52 Republican Senators Voted to Advance a New Hurdle Between You and the Ballot Box
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.
ICE Is Reading Your Posts. Congress Paid for It.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
She Sells Her Blood Twice a Week and Has $3.78 in the Bank. Under the Republican Law, 4.5 Million Fewer People Get Food Stamps.
A 1,000-mile road trip through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky found people who can't afford toilet paper. The unemployment rate hasn't moved. The only thing that changed is the law nearly every Republican in Congress from those states voted for.
14 Republican Senators Just Voted to Let Your Child Care Bill Go Up
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
The Senate Has Now Voted 13 Times on Ending the Iran War. These 13 Republicans Voted No Every Time It Mattered.
On July 30 the Senate came one vote short of forcing a debate on Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 13 Republican senators we track voted no — a week after the House told the president to get out.
A Handful of Billionaires Bought the Republican Party's Foreign Policy
AIPAC and its allies spent $8 million to take out a sitting Republican congressman who wouldn't fall in line. Here's how a lobby funded by a few billionaires came to own both parties' votes on war and peace.
The 4 Best States in America Don't Have a Single Republican in Congress
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut rank #1 through #4 on the 17 measures we track. Between them they send 25 people to Congress — and not one is a Republican. The four worst states send 24 Republicans.
52 Republican Senators Just Voted to Hand ICE Nearly $70 Billion
In the early morning of June 5, the Senate voted 52-47 to pour nearly $70 billion into ICE and Border Patrol with no oversight, no transparency, and a new slush fund for punishing 'non-cooperating' cities. Here are the senators with report cards on this site who voted yes.
The Republicans Who Marched Us Into War With Iran
In February 2026, Trump bombed Iran without Congress's approval. These Republicans cheered it on, voted to block efforts to stop it, and left us paying the price at the pump.
14,441 Arkansans Just Lost Obamacare — and Their Republicans Let It Happen
New federal data shows Arkansas lost 14,441 ACA enrollees this year after Congress let health subsidies expire. The state's all-Republican delegation had the power to stop it.
What Arkansas's Republicans in Congress Are Costing You
Arkansas already ranks 49th of 50 states on the measures we track. Now its own members of Congress have voted to cut Medicaid and SNAP on top of it, while a trade fight squeezes its farmers.
12 Republican Senators We Track Just Voted to Keep Us in Trump's Iran War
One day after the Senate told Trump to get U.S. forces out of the Iran war, these Republicans helped block a second resolution — handing Trump a win and ducking Congress's duty to decide on war.
197 Republicans Voted to Spike Your Health Insurance Premiums
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums spike.
Tom Cotton Spent His Whole Career Bashing an Iran Deal. Then Trump Made One.
Tom Cotton built his name fighting Obama's Iran deal. Now that Trump signed a remarkably similar one, Arkansas's senator has suddenly lowered his voice.