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Republican wins Montana election one night after being charged with assault – Washington Postby wpjljron Friday, May 26th, 2017.Republican wins Montana election one night after being charged with assault – Washington PostBOZEMAN, Mont. — Republican businessman Greg Gianforte won Montana’s sole House district in a special election Thursday, keeping a seat in Republican hands despite facing assault charges for allegedly attacking a reporter who’d asked him about the GOP’s health-care bill. In his victory speech, Gianforte admitted to the attack and apologized for it. “I shouldn’...

DeSantis sparks questions with Florida's upcoming special election DeSantis' plan will leave voters in Florida's 20th without a representative until January. If that seems like a long time, it's not your imagination. BySteve Benen It was just four weeks ago when the late Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) died at the age of 84. There's already a crowded field of candidates eager to succeed the longtime Miami-area congressman, in a heavily Democratic district. The power falls to Florida's governor to schedule a special election to fill the vacancy, and yesterday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) did exactly th...

The Anti-Democratic Senate is Too Dysfunctional To Do The People’s Work Republicans, led by the “Grim Reaper” of the Senate legislative graveyard, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, seem to think that the best way for them to heal their divided party is to unite in opposition to Joe Biden’s plan to tackle the public health and economic crisis that he inherited from Republicans last month, i.e., a return to Mitch McConnell’s policy of “total obstruction” from the Obama years. Axios reports that “Mike Donilon, senior adviser to President Biden, argues in a memo to White Hou...

Not since John C. Calhoun, the fiercely pro-slavery senator states’ rights advocate for state interposition, nullification and secession (he nearly precipitated a civil war with the nullification crisis over tariffs in 1832-33, and his political doctrines did serve as the doctrinal foundation of the Confederacy in the Civl War almost 30 years later), has there been a senator as destructive and malevolent as Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. As Adam Jentleson explained about his new book “ Kill Switch,” the filibuster “was shepherded into existence by John C. Calhoun, who was a fath...