North Carolina elections board asserts power to bar Cawthorn from 2022 ballot

The North Carolina State Board of Elections told a federal court that it absolutely does have the authority to block Rep. Madison Cawthorn from the ballot over his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the …

Madison Cawthorn has a Confederate problem

A few days after the first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a group of North Carolina voters decided enough was enough with Representative Madison Cawthorn.

The political neophyte to the …

Madison Cawthorn's support for an insurrection could get him kicked off the 2022 ballot

Two weeks ago, we learned that a group of fed-up North Carolina voters had filed a challenge to Madison Cawthorn’s 2022 congressional candidacy with the state’s Board of Elections, citing …

The 14th Amendment bars insurrection plotters from government. It's about to be tested

The House Republican caucus is at this point comprised almost exclusively of terrible people, but somehow North Carolina’s Rep. Madison Cawthorn is forever among the worst. It could be the weird …

CNN: Jan. 6 committee targets phone records in sprawling request

On Tuesday, CNN reported that the committee investigating the attack of the U.S. Capitol has formally subpoenaed phone records from over 100 individuals, including a number of officials from the Trump …

Rep. Madison Cawthorn blew a symphony of racist dog whistles in latest appearance

Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina is trending. Take a wild guess why. 

Cawthorn is trending because he has gone on yet another stupid-racist rant. Yes, “anotha one” (cue DJ Khalid …

Morning Digest: Yes, someone thinks Kristi Noem isn't conservative enough—and he's primarying her

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James …

Far-right favorite Madison Cawthorn announces bid for new congressional seat he barely represents

Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn announced Thursday evening that he would run for North Carolina’s new 13th District, which includes part of the Charlotte area and counties to the west, instead of the …

Watch what happens when student asks Madison Cawthorn to admit simple truth

As many a Democrat would be, one politically savvy Dartmouth College student appeared to be jumping out of his seat when put in a room with Rep. Madison Cawthorn. A Republican, Cawthorn is a supporter …

Two Jan. 6 rally organizers are talking, and congressional Republicans should be nervous

Several House Republicans—exactly the ones you would guess—were involved in planning meetings for protests on Jan. 6 as Trump supporters tried to block the certification of the 2020 election and with …

Rep. Madison Cawthorn posts clip calling for holy war, Twitter mocks him

Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina just can’t stop calling for violence, can he? This time, though, how is Cawthorn going to claim his words were taken out of context and misheard? He …

Morning Digest: In a surprise, Oregon Democrats abandon deal to give GOP veto over redistricting

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel …

The policy cupboard is bare, so Trump Republicans are running on nothing except lies and hate

Remember the 1980s commercial for Polly-O string cheese? The kid orders a pizza—hold the sauce, hold the bread. The guy taking the order cries out: “Gimme a cheese with nuttin’.” The incredulous baker …

A Republican lawmaker is calling for violence. What are his party's leaders going to say about it?

Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s spokesman denies that Cawthorn was threatening a repeat of January 6 when he said of the January insurrectionists that he was trying to “bust them out.” And when he said, “We …

Projection much, Republicans?

For the last two election cycles, Republican messaging has centered on branding Democrats as an angry mob. Indeed, the incessant hand-wringing we’ve seen from the GOP of late about Democrats being a …

Republicans were happy to support vaccine when they could credit Trump, then went on the attack

Here’s a quote from a vaccine supporter who was anxious to see the FDA give early approval to Pfizer back in November: “I’ve been a big proponent of releasing it early. I think that we’ve had enough …

CPAC has become the place Republicans go to sit around the campfire and scare themselves sillier

How can we be sure that we’ve drifted into the Worst Possible Timeline? Because it’s always CPAC. Not content with one event in 2021, the Conservative Political Action Conference is on again, with …

600,000 Americans are dead, and Republicans are still telling people that the pandemic is a hoax

It’s wrong to define any group by the actions of some outrageous, but obscure, member. There are Democrats who are rabidly anti-vax, and Democrats who hold all manner of racist, sexist, or equally …

Madison Cawthorn lies. This time he's pretending he actually did something in Congress

Republican lying person Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina should not be allowed in the halls of Congress let alone be allowed to serve in Congress. He should not have a job as an elected …