Republicans aren’t typically big fans of taking deliberate action to crash the stock market — but that’s what Donald Trump did on Wednesday, putting lawmakers who have fashioned their careers around fluffing the president in a tough spot. There are, of course, plenty of Republicans who have given their full-throated …
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People often ask me why I do what I do. Why go undercover to expose extremist Republicans like Senator Ron Johnson, Trump coup attorney John Eastman, or Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito? Can’t you just ask them for an interview? To give you a fuller context for my motivation requires …
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R) irresponsibly spread an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that there was a second shooter in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Law enforcement has not uncovered any proof of another gunman. “Was it one rifle? Was it more than one?” the Republican senator said on Fox News’ Sunday …
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Though authorities continue to investigate potential motives for the deadly shooting at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, Sen. Ron Johnson is wasting no time in declaring a scapegoat: schools. Appearing on a panel for the far-right, Hitler-quoting activist group Moms for Liberty on Tuesday, the second …
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During a Sunday appearance on Fox News, Sen. Ron Johnson alleged that ocean “windmills… are killing the whales,” but this is nothing more than misinformation that expert scientists and the government have repeatedly rebuked. While discussing climate change on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures, Johnson said, “All this climate alarmism is …
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When the members of the House’s new subcommittee on the “weaponization of government” took their seats for the first time on Thursday afternoon, chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) promised its first hearing would expose the “political nature of the Justice Department.” To make this point, Republican senators who testified before the …
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Meet the Press host Chuck Todd got feisty with Republican Sen. Ron Johnson when the lawmaker accused him and the rest of the media of bias. The confrontation began when the two were discussing classified documents recently found in President Joe Biden‘s home and former office and Todd asked why …
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In the weeks leading up to Election Day, Mandela Barnes’ supporters felt frustrated. They believed in Barnes as the best Democrat to take on Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), and election forecasts all but guaranteed a Johnson victory. That frustration gave way to fury, however, once the ballots were counted on …
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Ron Johnson once said climate change is caused by sunspots. He said Covid could be treated by gargling mouthwash. He asserted the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol had been instigated by “fake Trump supporters,” even as the two-term Senate Republican reportedly tried to supply Vice President Mike Pence with …
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There was a time when one could often find Mandela Barnes on MSNBC. His hits peaked in late summer 2020, when Wisconsin’s 33-year-old lieutenant governor took to the liberal airwaves to register his outrage over a police shooting in Kenosha. Those appearances left a strong impression, as Barnes — young, …
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