Category: 2022 Midterm Elections

Wisconsin Conservatives Cry Foul in State Supreme Court Election Defeat

Out-spent and out-hustled, Wisconsin conservatives suffered a crushing loss this month when a liberal won a seat on the state Supreme Court. The defeat has some Republicans calling the results “tainted.” About a month before the April 4 election, conservative activists became aware of an online left-wing get-out-the-vote project that was drumming up votes for…


‘I Will Not Be Bullied,’ North Carolina Democrat Representative Switches to Republican

State Rep. Tricia Cotham, who won her district Mecklenburg district in the 2022 midterm election, has announced that she’s switching from the Democrat to the Republican party, giving the GOP a full supermajority. A supermajority can override any veto from Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper, a governor who’s vetoed a record number of Republican bills. In…


For Democrats, ‘MAGA Republican’ Label is Designed to Paralyze Opposition

News Analysis These days, it seems like every top Democrat has to work the term “MAGA Republican” into their messages. It’s no coincidence. Their party first deployed the term in mid-2022 as part of a midterm strategy that aimed to activate voters outraged about the Supreme Court’s abortion decision, among other issues. “The terms ‘MAGA…


Senate Committee Finds Nation Losing Election Workers

Harassment of election officials, misinformation, excessive public information requests, and frivolous lawsuits are driving many experienced poll workers into retirement and making it hard to recruit new ones. Those were some of the election administration problems that the Senate Rules Committee heard about on March 28. Committee Chairperson Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) opened the two-hour hearing…


Doctor’s Notes Offer Closer Look at Sen. Fetterman’s Treatment Upon Release From Hospital

Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. John Fetterman was discharged Friday from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he was being treated for major depression. Fetterman checked himself in for treatment on Feb. 15. A week before that, he had been in George Washington University Hospital in Washington, with symptoms of lightheadedness, which was a concern because the…


House Committee Probes ‘Voter Suppression’ in Pennsylvania County

After a three-hour congressional hearing and the testimony of two panels of witnesses, nobody seems to know for sure who failed to order enough ballots for the 2022 midterm election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. One thing is certain. Republicans are still hopping mad about it. Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) opened the hearing by stating…


GOP Candidate Responds to Trump Indictment: ‘Dark Moment in American History’

Vivek Ramaswamy described the indictment of Donald J. Trump as a “dark moment in American history” on March 30, warning that “we’re skating on thin ice as a country.” “It is un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its political rivals.,” said Ramaswamy in a post on Twitter. Ramaswamy, a biotech…


Former GOP Candidate Wants Answers After Air Force Improperly Released His Military Records

In J.R. Majewski’s telling, the conditions were perfect for a mixup. “I was in the car on my way home from Washington, DC, driving with one of the folks who worked for me,” he said in a March 23 interview with The Epoch Times. It was late September 2022, and the Republican running to fill…


[PREMIERING NOW] More Divided Than Ever, Time for National Divorce?

Civil War America was split by region: north and south. Today, it’s worse—divided not just politically but socially, too, with the working- and middle-class versus the laptop elites. Should we part ways before it gets even worse? Or maybe the solution to our troubled union is found in the Constitution. In this controversial new episode…


More Divided Than Ever, Time for National Divorce?

Civil War America was split by region: north and south. Today, it’s worse—divided not just politically but socially, too, with the working- and middle-class versus the laptop elites. Should we part ways before it gets even worse? Or maybe the solution to our troubled union is found in the Constitution. In this controversial new episode…