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Marsha Blackburn
July 18, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Watch: Republicans Bully Secret Service Head over Trump Shooting
Senators demanded that the Secret Service chief either provide more details on the Donald Trump assassination attempt, or resign.
January 31, 2024
Tori Otten
Suddenly, Marsha Blackburn Is Really, Really Afraid of Taylor Swift
The Republican senator from Tennessee is worried what Taylor is going to say this election.
November 13, 2023
Tori Otten
Will Marsha Blackburn Be Censured for This Racist Tweet on Rashida Tlaib?
Senator Marsha Blackburn is smearing the only Palestinian American member of Congress.
October 17, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republicans Are Using Israel’s War on Gaza to Try to Deport People
Amid Israel’s war on Gaza, Republicans are looking to change immigration laws at home.
September 5, 2023
Tori Otten
Gloria Johnson, of Tennessee Three, Looks to Unseat GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn
Gloria Johnson has officially launched her 2024 Senate campaign.
September 28, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Doxxed Doctors, Library Bomb Threats, and Attacks on Pride Centers: A Week in Escalating Anti-LGBTQ Violence
Amid a rising right-wing tide of threats, recent incidents have sadly not been out of the norm.
March 25, 2022
Timothy Noah
Marsha Blackburn Never Leaves a Culture-War Hot Button Unpressed
The Tennessee Republican bullied Ketanji Brown Jackson at least as much as the committee’s more famous men did. It’s not hard to guess why.
March 23, 2022
Matt Ford
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearings Reveal Republicans’ Twisted Desire to Erase Civil Rights
Republican senators haven’t been shy about wanting to roll back the clock for women, LGBTQ people, and Black Americans.
March 21, 2022
Matt Ford
Marsha Blackburn and Josh Hawley Greet Ketanji Brown Jackson With Bad-Faith Attacks
Their Republican colleagues seemed loath to join in during the first day of the Supreme Court nominee’s confirmation hearings.
April 27, 2021
Jacob Silverman
“John Kerry Is a Traitor” Is the Republicans’ New Dumb Meme
The latest bad-faith attacks on Biden’s climate envoy show that the GOP is determined to find the next #Benghazi.
January 5, 2021
Alex Shephard
Trump Blew Up Ted Cruz’s Cynical Plan to Contest the Election
The president’s extraordinary call with Georgia’s secretary of state is proof that Republicans in Congress are laundering an attempted coup.
October 14, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Amy Coney Barrett’s Gentle Deceptions
The Supreme Court nominee would have us believe she’s just a vessel for the law, but her rise to conservative power tells the real story.
October 30, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Guess Who Really Wants to Take Away Your Insurance: Republicans
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