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An ongoing series examining the growth and impact of radicalization in the Republican Party

GOP House nominee expressed fringe views on QAnon, Jan. 6

When J.R. Majewski emerged as the surprise winner of a Republican House primary election Tuesday in northern Ohio, Democrats supporting the longtime incumbent congresswoman in the district, Marcy Kaptur, celebrated.

In a win for Republicans, Florida Senate approves DeSantis’ congressional map
A new congressional map submitted by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’ office that will likely swing Florida’s representation in Washington even further right was approved by the state Senate on Wednesday.

Trump supports booster shots and criticizes politicians who won’t state their vaccine status
Former president Donald Trump is slamming politicians who refuse to say whether they have received COVID-19 booster shots as “gutless.”

Battle for the GOP

They kept the wheels on democracy as Trump tried to steal an election. Now they’re paying the price

As President Trump and his allies looked for the pressure points in the country’s sprawling election system, hoping to overturn his loss, they met resistance from Democrats but also a cadre of Republicans who acted as the guardrails of American democracy by prioritizing truth and law over political allegiance.

Inside the bizarre Arizona audit fueled by Trump’s false claims of election fraud

It’s easy to dismiss this as a sideshow, a weird epilogue to an election that some Trump supporters still aren’t ready to concede. But democracy experts and election administrators warn that the audit speaks to a dark and worrisome current of distrust that has been intentionally stoked by GOP leaders.

A chain saw attack on racial justice protesters in a Texas border town revealed deep fissures on race and politics among Latinos

In this region of South Texas where Donald Trump made massive inroads with Latino voters last November, shattering stubborn notions of this slice of the electorate as a monolithic bloc, both Democrats and Republicans have spent months trying to figure out the roots of the ex-president’s appeal — and whether the GOP will be able to capitalize on it in the future.

Jan. 6 commission’s fate uncertain as Republicans seek to rewrite history

The push for a bipartisan, bicameral commission to investigate the deadly breach of the Capitol has collided with the objectives of the Republican Party.
The Battle for the GOP

With Cheney out and Stefanik likely in, Republicans decide to live and die with the Big Lie

Representative Liz Cheney’s ouster, a stunning rebuke for the member of a Wyoming family that helped to shape the GOP for decades, likely clears the way for the rise of Representative Elise Stefanik
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Stripped of his megaphone and much of his influence, Trump still holds GOP in his thrall

It is becoming increasingly clear that the ex-president no longer needs the social media platforms that nurtured his devoted following and rocketed him to the presidency.
The Battle for the GOP

In rapidly changing Georgia, many Republicans remain obsessed with the last election

Many in Georgia’s Republican Party are still stewing over a presidential election they think was simply stolen. The main focus so far has been on passing a restrictive new voting law. Meanwhile, some Trump devotees are also targeting the state’s elected Republican officials who upheld the 2020 results.

Republicans, out of power and squabbling, are targeting transgender kids to score political points, activists say

LGBTQ rights’ advocates argue that Republicans are targeting transgender youth now as a way to score political points with a segment of their base at a time when the party is out of power at the federal level and squabbling over some of the fundamental policies that used to unite them.
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‘Do you have to go a little crazy to stop the ones that are crazier?’ Virginia’s governor’s race is a window into the GOP’s turmoil

The Virginia governor's race may turn into a test of whether the GOP base is willing to confront the electoral downsides of running as far as possible to the extreme.
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‘An incredibly difficult balancing act’: Will Kevin McCarthy lead the fractious House Republicans to the majority?

McCarthy is positioning himself to reach his ultimate goal — speaker of the House — if he can navigate the land mines of being a Republican leader in the post-Trump era.
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Josh Hawley became a pariah in Washington after the insurrection. Does it matter?

A total freeze out from nearly half the Senate might raise the danger of being seen unable to deliver for the voters back home. But in a world in which hundreds of Trump supporters mobilized to ransack the US Capitol, becoming a pariah inside its marble walls isn’t necessarily a political liability with the GOP grassroots.
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Biden, House Democrats take different paths on GOP extremes

As the Republican Party convulses in the wake of Donald Trump’s loss and signs of extremism among some in its base, President Biden and the White House are largely ignoring the tumult. Meanwhile, House Democrats are highlighting Republican radicalization.