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RECEIPTS
Tim Sheehy, GOP candidate for Senate in Montana, hired a campaign staffer with social media accounts and public statements emblematic of the fringe far right.
Riley Rogerson is a politics reporter covering Congress at the Daily Beast. Prior to joining the Beast, Riley was the Washington correspondent for the Anchorage Daily News and a Report for America Corps member. She is a graduate of Georgetown University.
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ALL HAT
In his first campaign video, Jeff Gunter was decked out in western gear head to toe. Records show he'd just purchased them at a chain retailer.
STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
In an increasingly rare show of compromise in Congress, everyone is giving up something to get something—except for a peeved crew of MAGA members.
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‘SOUNDS DANGEROUS’
We asked Republican lawmakers about Plan-B and the so-called “abortion pill,” Mifepristone. They didn’t seem to know what they were talking about.
CHURCHILL MOMENT
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) finally gave Ukraine aid a vote on the House floor, passing the legislation overwhelmingly. Now he's looking at a potential GOP mutiny.
CLOCK IS TICKING
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is using some complex congressional procedure to force the Senate to vote on a bill that would force the sale of TikTok within a year.
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CHICKEN KYIV
The House speaker is betting he can get Ukraine aid over the finish line this week—and that it won’t cost him his speakership.
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FIFTH AVENUE FAITHFUL
We asked more than 20 Republicans in Congress whether they were comfortable with the GOP nominee potentially being a convicted felon. Only one expressed any issue with it.
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PRAIRIE HOME CONUNDRUM
Montana Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy has claimed he grew up in “rural” Minnesota. His hometown is actually a quintessential slice of Twin Cities suburbia.
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‘WRITE TWO LETTERS’
Mike Johnson is nearing six months in the speakership. He might not get a seventh.