The House Ethics Committee has reportedly opened an investigation into Democrat darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Ny.) The Ethics Committee released the following release regarding the investigation: The Acting Chairwoman and Acting Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics have jointly decided to extend the matter regarding Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which was transmitted to the Committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics on June 23, 2022. https://twitter.com/Verity_Avidity/status/1600574372216963072 The Committee notes that the mere fact of a referral or an extension, and the mandatory disclosure of such an extension and the name of the subject of the matter, does not itself indicate…
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Nancy Jackson
Nancy grew up in the South where her passion for politics first began. After getting her BA in journalism from Ole Miss she became an arts and culture writer for Athens Magazine where she enjoyed reporting on the eclectic music and art scene in Athens, GA. However, her desire to report on issues and policies impacting everyday Americans won out and she packed her bags for Washington, DC. Now, she splits her time between the Nation’s Capital and Philadelphia where she covers the fast-paced environment of politics, business, and news. In her off time, you can find Nancy exploring museums or enjoying brunch with friends.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in an early morning ATV accident on Wednesday in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. According to The Washington Examiner, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection confirmed the incident happened around 1 a.m. CST Wednesday while the agent was tracking a group of people suspected of crossing the border illegally “A Border Patrol agent assigned to the McAllen Station patrolling the international boundary on an all-terrain vehicle was tracking a group of subjects that illegally crossed the border when he was involved in an accident near Mission, Texas,” CBP told the Washington…
Democrats are sick and tired of their party’s increasingly dangerous and radical values. New York City Democrat councilman, Ari Kagan, announced he switching to the Republican Party due to Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies. According to The Daily Wire, Kagan also announced his intention to challenge Democrat Justin Brannan in next year’s general election in the newly-redrawn district. “Over the last several years in my personal humble opinion, [the] Democratic Party in New York became moving to the left at such a speed that they could not even keep up,” Kagan said at a press conference on Monday, via amNY. “And on issue…
Outgoing New York Congressman Lee Zeldin has decided not to mount a campaign to become the next leader of the Republican National Committee (RNC). On Wednesday, Zeldin announced his decision not to challenge current RNC chair, Ronna McDaniel, noting that a majority of RNC members have already revealed their plans to support her, calling the re-election “pre-baked.” “Change is desperately needed, and there are many leaders, myself included, ready and willing to step up to ensure our party retools and transforms as critical elections fast approach,” Zeldin said in a statement. “However, the issue is Chairwoman McDaniel’s re-election appears to…
A jury has finished deliberation over a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s family business, the Trump Organization. According to CNN, a Manhattan jury has found two Trump Organization companies guilty on multiple charges of criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records connected to a 15-year scheme to defraud tax authorities by failing to report and pay taxes on compensation for top executives. The Trump Corp. and Trump Payroll Corp. were found guilty on all charges they faced. The former president nor any of his family members were charged in the case. Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty…
Is this Democrats’ most manipulative ploy yet to sway elections in their favor? You be the judge. Democrats in various jurisdictions are pushing to lower the local voting age to 16 years old. The proposals conveniently coincide with data that shows younger demographics trending toward the left. According to Fox News, lawmakers in Boston, Mass., and Culver City, Calif. are supporting measures to let younger residents vote in local elections while a Virginia Democrat has proposed a change to the state’s constitution. “Notwithstanding the requirement that a voter shall be eighteen years of age, any person who is sixteen years…
Nebraska Republican Governor Pete Ricketts announced on Tuesday his plans to pursue the appointment to replace outgoing Republican Sen. Ben Sasse. “For me, it came down to a single question: How can I best serve the people of Nebraska and advance our conservative values? In Congress, we’re in a fight for the future of our nation, and it’s a fight we have to win. We must cut taxes, strengthen public safety and our national security, and protect our most sacred freedoms,” Ricketts said in a statement shared with The Hill. Gov. Ricketts was set to leave the governor’s office in…
Monday night, Harmeet Dhillon officially announced her plan to challenge Ronna McDaniel to lead the Republican National Committee (RNC). Dhillon, who previously worked as a legal adviser to Trump’s campaign in 2020, made the announcement during an evening appearance with Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “Republicans are tired of losing and I think that that we really need to radically reshape our leadership in order to win,” Dhillon told Carlson. “We can’t keep running elections like we did in the 90’s and the 2000s and we really have to modernize to compete with the Democrats dollar for dollar in the…
Is Donald Trump starting to feel a twinge of buyer’s remorse for announcing his 2024 campaign so early? The latest results from a poll based in deep-red Utah point to yes. Trump came in a distant third place in the Deseret News-Hinckley Institute of Politics’ poll of possible GOP contenders for the 2024 presidential race. However, even more shocking than Trump’s No. 3 position is the fact that respondents were warmer toward outgoing Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decisively led the poll in a hypothetical Republican presidential primary, at 24.2 percent, followed by Cheney with 16.4 percent.…
Jim Kolbe, a Republican Congressman who represented Arizona for more than two decades, has passed away at 80 years old. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said in a statement that Kolbe died Saturday. Ducey ordered flags lowered until sunset Sunday. Kolbe served in the Arizona Legislature before being elected in 1984 to Congress to represent a Democrat-leaning region of the state. According to Politico, Kolbe started his political career at 15 as a page for the late U.S Sen. Barry Goldwater in Washington and later served on the board that oversees the page program. He attended Northwestern University and then Stanford,…