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A GOP campaign committee fundraiser debuted a tailor-made “America First Award” for President Trump, and the coverage leans hard on mockery while skimming past the political purpose of this kind of party-stage honor.

Congress

Mar 26, 2026

Johnson dodges a basic fraud question while pushing a stringent proof-of-citizenship registration bill.

Elections

Mar 17, 2026

Trump publicly discloses a lawmaker’s alleged terminal condition, spotlighting privacy norms and the political incentives of medical storytelling.

Congress

Mar 16, 2026

House leadership reportedly elevated a federal voting-restriction push over core governance needs, normalizing proof-of-citizenship barriers as a legislative priority.

Congress

Mar 12, 2026

A sitting president invoked a fictive voting loophole—six-year-olds “vouching” for voter ID—to press Congress for stricter election rules rooted in baseless fraud claims.

Elections

Mar 10, 2026

Party leadership pressure and an ethics investigation forced a sitting congressman off the ballot, exposing how workplace power abuse allegations can collide with Congress’s fragile self-policing norms.

Congress

Mar 6, 2026

As U.S. strikes expand, House leadership is contesting the meaning of “war” to blunt Congress’s constitutional power to authorize—or end—major military action.

Congress

Mar 4, 2026

A sitting member accused of coercing a staffer into sex is refusing to step aside, testing whether congressional power can outlast credible allegations without transparent ethics accountability.

Congress

Feb 24, 2026

House leadership is refusing to press a member to resign amid serious misconduct allegations, subordinating accountability norms to the operational need to hold votes in a historically narrow majority.

Congress

Feb 23, 2026

National crime fell, yet top Republican leaders sold a fictitious crime “wave,” normalizing electioneering that treats basic federal crime statistics as propaganda to be punished.

General

Aug 6, 2025

A president allegedly leaned on members of Congress to abandon a lawful discharge petition, treating transparency over federal investigative files as something to suppress for “friends.”

Congress

Feb 18, 2026

Trump-aligned lawmakers are advancing federal enforcement tools and congressional leverage that could be used to intimidate voters and refuse to seat election winners in disputed races.

Elections

Feb 15, 2026

When the Speaker denies a briefing on alleged DOJ tracking of a lawmaker’s oversight searches, Congress’s duty to police executive surveillance collapses into protective silence.

Congress

Feb 12, 2026

Feeding 42 million Americans is being treated as shutdown leverage, turning a basic federal duty into a bargaining chip and normalizing governance by hostage-taking.

Congress

Oct 30, 2025

By withholding the oath from a duly elected member, House leadership turned the swearing-in into a gatekeeping tool to stall a lawful discharge petition and shield the floor from accountability.

Congress

Sep 30, 2025