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WALL STREET WHATLEY Whatley Promised A "Very, Very Strong" Q1 & Q2. Today, Inflation Hit A New High As Families Continue To Struggle.
RALEIGH, North Carolina, May 12 -- The North Carolina Democratic Party posted the following news:
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WALL STREET WHATLEY Whatley Promised A "Very, Very Strong" Q1 & Q2. Today, Inflation Hit A New High As Families Continue To Struggle.
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New data reveals inflation " soared " to 3.8% in April - the highest in three years and driven by high gas prices from the Iran War. But last December, DC Insider and Big Oil Lobbyist Michael Whatley promised "an economy that's growing and very, very strong first quarter, second quarter" in 2026. Instead, Whatley's oil and gas stocks have spiked and benefitted
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RALEIGH, North Carolina, May 12 -- The North Carolina Democratic Party posted the following news:
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WALL STREET WHATLEY Whatley Promised A "Very, Very Strong" Q1 & Q2. Today, Inflation Hit A New High As Families Continue To Struggle.
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New data reveals inflation " soared " to 3.8% in April - the highest in three years and driven by high gas prices from the Iran War. But last December, DC Insider and Big Oil Lobbyist Michael Whatley promised "an economy that's growing and very, very strong first quarter, second quarter" in 2026. Instead, Whatley's oil and gas stocks have spiked and benefittedhis bottom line while North Carolina families face soaring prices.
Michael Whatley: "So we're very excited about the progress that's been made so far, and what is coming in Q1 and Q2 of next year."
Michael Whatley: "What we're hearing from Scott Bessent, we're hearing from, you know, the folks at the White House, the economic advisors, is that they're fully expecting we're going to have an economy that's growing and very, very strong first quarter, second quarter of next year."
Holding over a million dollars in Big Oil stock, Whatley pushed for the Iran War and has seen his oil stocks spike by up to "219,660." As Whatley profits at the expense of North Carolina families paying nearly 50% more for gas, Whatley is downplaying the war, calling it "not even a war" and suggesting American service members aren't making a sacrifice - despite 13 troops killed and hundreds wounded.
Whatley also cheered on Trump's actions in Venezuela as he reaped up to "$63,000" in a single weekend from his investments in Big Oil companies.
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Original text here: https://www.ncdp.org/media/wall-street-whatley%f0%9f%93%88%f0%9f%92%b0-whatley-promised-a-very-very-strong-q1-q2-today-inflation-hit-a-new-high-as-families-continue-to-struggle/
Tom Kean Jr. Refuses to Tell New Jersey Voters Where He Is While Missing in Action For 68 Straight Days
WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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Tom Kean Jr. Refuses to Tell New Jersey Voters Where He Is While Missing in Action For 68 Straight Days
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Kean Jr. last voted on March 5th
It has now been 10 weeks since Tom Kean Jr. last voted in Washington. New Jersey voters still don't know where their congressman is, and they don't know why he has continued to trade stocks in office while missing votes in Washington. His office is once again refusing to say when he will return.
Health care premiums are skyrocketing. Gas prices
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WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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Tom Kean Jr. Refuses to Tell New Jersey Voters Where He Is While Missing in Action For 68 Straight Days
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Kean Jr. last voted on March 5th
It has now been 10 weeks since Tom Kean Jr. last voted in Washington. New Jersey voters still don't know where their congressman is, and they don't know why he has continued to trade stocks in office while missing votes in Washington. His office is once again refusing to say when he will return.
Health care premiums are skyrocketing. Gas pricesand grocery bills are soaring. Inflation is accelerating. But working families from New Jersey's 7th Congressional District are left in the dark with nobody to fight for them in Washington.
It's time for Kean Jr. and his office to be transparent with his constituents.
DCCC Spokesperson Eli Cousin:
"Tom Kean Jr. has left his constituents in the dark for two whole months, missing votes in Washington while continuing to play the stock market. It's well past time for Kean Jr. and his office to be transparent and answer questions about where the congressman is and why he hasn't been able to do his job for multiple months."
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Original text here: https://dccc.org/tom-kean-jr-refuses-to-tell-new-jersey-voters-where-he-is-while-missing-in-action-for-68-straight-days/
Ohio Democratic Party Launches Coordinated Campaign, "OhioWins"
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 12 -- The Ohio Democratic Party posted the following news:
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Ohio Democratic Party Launches Coordinated Campaign, "OhioWins"
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With all eyes on Ohio and competitive elections in every corner of our state up and down the ballot, the Ohio Democratic Party is launching OhioWins, an historic coordinated campaign that will be mobilizing in all 88 counties to elect Democrats who will lower costs for Ohio families, protect Ohioans' freedoms, and grow our state. OhioWins will also work tirelessly to educate voters and protect Ohioans' right to vote.
"I'm thrilled to launch
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 12 -- The Ohio Democratic Party posted the following news:
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Ohio Democratic Party Launches Coordinated Campaign, "OhioWins"
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With all eyes on Ohio and competitive elections in every corner of our state up and down the ballot, the Ohio Democratic Party is launching OhioWins, an historic coordinated campaign that will be mobilizing in all 88 counties to elect Democrats who will lower costs for Ohio families, protect Ohioans' freedoms, and grow our state. OhioWins will also work tirelessly to educate voters and protect Ohioans' right to vote.
"I'm thrilled to launchthe OhioWins coordinated campaign as it hits the ground running to connect with Ohioans around our winning message and commonsense plans to lower costs, protect our freedoms, and grow our communities," said Ohio Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Clyde. "Ohioans know that Republicans in Columbus and in Washington are only making life more difficult and more expensive for Ohio families, and we're already seeing incredible energy around our Democratic candidates, from Sherrod Brown and Dr. Amy Acton to our Democratic Congress members and leaders down the ballot. There is a place for Ohioans of all political backgrounds in our coordinated campaign, and I look forward to all that our Democratic coordinated campaign will do in the days to come to help Ohioans win in November and beyond."
"The stakes in this election couldn't be higher and our coordinated campaign is going to be connecting with Ohioans in every corner of our state around the importance of electing Democrats up and down the ballot who will lower costs, protect our freedoms, and help ensure that everyone can thrive in our communities," said OhioWins Democratic Coordinated Campaign Director Katey Fairchild. "When Democrats mobilize everywhere, we can win anywhere - a message that Ohioans of all political stripes are going to send loud and clear in November, and every day until then as they join with our coordinated campaign to make clear that the status quo in Columbus and in Washington isn't working for working families."
OhioWins is an historic effort, mobilizing everywhere to support Democratic leaders in competitive elections for Senate, Governor, House, and down the ballot throughout Ohio.
* OhioWins is launching with a foundation of more than 20 staffers already on the ground, including individuals focused on organizing, voter access, data, and operations - a majority of those staffers having Ohio ties. OhioWins will continue hiring to build an aggressive operation in all 88 Ohio counties in the days to come.
* Members of the coordinated campaign are organizing key constituencies with staffers already on board focused on connecting with Ohioans in: urban areas, rural areas, and on Ohio's campuses.
* With strong candidates at the top of the ticket - and all the way down the ballot - organizers are on board who have specific focuses on defending our congressional incumbents in frontline races.
* In addition to a strong field operation, the coordinated campaign is investing in record-setting infrastructure to protect access to the ballot box for Ohioans, including the hiring of a Voter Access Director and additional staff.
* OhioWins will deploy a state-of-the-art data and analytics team that ensures voter contact efforts are microtargeted to the exact voters that will carry Ohio Democrats to victory in 2026
Ohioans interested in supporting OhioWins can visit [ website ].
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Original text here: https://ohiodems.org/ohio-democratic-party-launches-coordinated-campaign-ohiowins/
NBC4: Ramaswamy Contradicts Himself on COVID-19 After Making Over $2 Billion in Profit & Pushing for National COVID Registry
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 12 -- The Ohio Democratic Party posted the following news:
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NBC4: Ramaswamy Contradicts Himself on COVID-19 After Making Over $2 Billion in Profit & Pushing for National COVID Registry
In unearthed audio reported by NBC4, Vivek Ramaswamy contradicted his own comments on COVID-19 after attacking Dr. Amy Acton on her role as Ohio Department of Health director.
This discovery follows bombshell reporting from the Associated Press that shone a spotlight on Ramaswamy's pandemic ghosts, including how he and his company made $2.2 billion from the COVID-19 vaccine and pushed
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 12 -- The Ohio Democratic Party posted the following news:
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NBC4: Ramaswamy Contradicts Himself on COVID-19 After Making Over $2 Billion in Profit & Pushing for National COVID Registry
In unearthed audio reported by NBC4, Vivek Ramaswamy contradicted his own comments on COVID-19 after attacking Dr. Amy Acton on her role as Ohio Department of Health director.
This discovery follows bombshell reporting from the Associated Press that shone a spotlight on Ramaswamy's pandemic ghosts, including how he and his company made $2.2 billion from the COVID-19 vaccine and pushedfor a national COVID-19 registry that would "segregate" the American people based on their vaccine status.
In addition to proposing draconian measures to boost his bottom line, the AP investigation revealed Ramaswamy served on Ohio's COVID-19 response team, advised Jon Husted on pandemic response, then paid a Wikipedia editor to scrub his involvement once it was no longer politically convenient.
WATCH THE CLIP HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZdU-xCYIh4
"Ohioans can't trust a single word that comes out of billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy's mouth. Whether it's an extreme proposal to 'segregate' Americans or scrubbing his involvement from his Wikipedia page after the fact, everything Ramaswamy says is a scam that will make more money for himself and leave Ohioans behind," said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer.
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Original text here: https://ohiodems.org/nbc4-ramaswamy-contradicts-himself-on-covid-19-after-making-over-2-billion-in-profit-pushing-for-national-covid-registry/
Mich. Democratic Party: Column - Mike Rogers Slammed for Dismissing Skyrocketing Michigan Gas Prices [Detroit News]
LANSING, Michigan, May 12 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release:
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COLUMN: Mike Rogers Slammed for Dismissing Skyrocketing Michigan Gas Prices [Detroit News]
Out-of-touch GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers continues to face backlash for dismissing Michiganders' concerns as gas prices near $5 a gallon. In a new column for The Detroit News, Bankole Thompson said Rogers "doesn't seem to worry" about skyrocketing gas prices because he was more concerned with "partisan performance" than lowering costs for Michigan families.
During a recent campaign event, Price Hike
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LANSING, Michigan, May 12 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release:
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COLUMN: Mike Rogers Slammed for Dismissing Skyrocketing Michigan Gas Prices [Detroit News]
Out-of-touch GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers continues to face backlash for dismissing Michiganders' concerns as gas prices near $5 a gallon. In a new column for The Detroit News, Bankole Thompson said Rogers "doesn't seem to worry" about skyrocketing gas prices because he was more concerned with "partisan performance" than lowering costs for Michigan families.
During a recent campaign event, Price HikeMike dismissed a Michigander concerned with paying more at the gas pump, saying "We're gonna be fine, we got plenty of oil." Thompson says these dismissive comments are an example of how Rogers has "failed" to address rising costs, and "People should not pay for failed leadership in November."
Read more:
Detroit News (https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/bankole-thompson/2026/05/10/gas-prices-hit-families-hard-gop-candidates-questioned-michigan/89991328007/): Empty rhetoric isn't enough to address rising gas prices | Thompson
* Those on fixed incomes and communities that are struggling to get by, as well as families taking their children to school, are feeling the pain the most. That includes the single mother in Detroit or the Upper Peninsula who has to balance rent, utilities and childcare because the spike in gas prices is exposing them to more financial hardship.
* The economic shock that people are feeling from the pump doesn't seem to worry some GOP candidates. Take, for example, Mike Rogers, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, who reportedly said, "We're gonna be fine, we got plenty of oil" during an event at Oakland University in March.
* Rogers and his ilk cannot offer empty rhetoric on the fuel crisis, which is exposing the broader affordability issue in the nation. Instead of partisan performance that is often the standard talking point on cable television and at town hall meetings, there needs to be a serious national conversation about how things are not getting better economically.
* Ordinary people who are standing at gas stations and watching their paychecks disappear as soon as they fill their tank need solutions.
* What connects the poor and working class in both urban and rural Michigan is the gas prices. For some, driving is not optional; it is a means of survival. If fuel cost is draining household budgets in an already battered inflationary economy, and GOP candidates are not putting up tangible solutions or speaking out about it because they are afraid of Trump, they have failed.
* People should not pay for failed leadership in November.
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Original text here: https://michigandems.com/new-column-mike-rogers-slammed-for-dismissing-skyrocketing-michigan-gas-prices-detroit-news/
ICYMI: Cornyn-Paxton Senate Runoff Grows Increasingly Bitter as GOP Unity Fears Mount [Houston Chronicle]
WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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ICYMI: Cornyn-Paxton Senate Runoff Grows Increasingly Bitter as GOP Unity Fears Mount [Houston Chronicle]
In case you missed it, the Texas GOP is facing "the worst chasm within the Texas Republican Party since it consolidated power [...] nearly a quarter-century ago" as the "increasingly personal attacks" between floundering incumbent John Cornyn and scandal-plagued Ken Paxton continue to "fracture" the party.
Paxton and Cornyn's "mutual eye-poking and nose-bloodying will continue and
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WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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ICYMI: Cornyn-Paxton Senate Runoff Grows Increasingly Bitter as GOP Unity Fears Mount [Houston Chronicle]
In case you missed it, the Texas GOP is facing "the worst chasm within the Texas Republican Party since it consolidated power [...] nearly a quarter-century ago" as the "increasingly personal attacks" between floundering incumbent John Cornyn and scandal-plagued Ken Paxton continue to "fracture" the party.
Paxton and Cornyn's "mutual eye-poking and nose-bloodying will continue andintensify" as the runoff drags on and further divides Republicans, with "weak" and "ineffective" "RINO" John Cornyn, who claimed "President Trump's time has passed him by," facing backlash from the MAGA base after he amplified a social media post by "Republicans Against Trump."
See for yourself:
Houston Chronicle: Cornyn-Paxton Senate runoff grows increasingly bitter as GOP unity fears mount (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columns/article/texas-senate-paxton-cornyn-republican-runoff-22249941.php)
* Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick warned last month that the bruising Republican U.S. Senate runoff between incumbent John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could fracture the Texas GOP. A month later, the increasingly personal attacks between the two Republicans appear to be proving him right.
* Patrick aired his fears before the Texas Public Policy Foundation, an influential conservative think tank, that the Paxton-Cornyn race would cause the worst chasm within the Texas Republican Party since it consolidated power in Austin nearly a quarter-century ago.
* The Mother's Day ad is one of a barrage of broadsides fired by the Cornyn camp since Paxton announced his challenge to the four-term incumbent last year. And it came soon after Paxton took aim at Cornyn in an ad by his super PAC targeting the senator's decades-long career as an elected official. The piece takes viewers back to 1984 with images of pop stars from the era, the dawn of the computer generation and Ronald Reagan's presidency.
* Patrick [...] raised the possibility that the Senate runoff might wound the winning candidate so badly that it would not only set up the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, state Rep. James Talarico of Austin, to glide to victory in November, but also depress GOP turnout and allow the Texas House to slip from Republican control.
* Polling since Patrick's appearance at TPPF on April 8 appears to bear out those fears. A poll last month by the Texas Politics Project showed that Talarico leads both Republicans [...]. More concerning for Republicans, however, is that while eight in 10 Democrats said they are firmly in the corner of their party's Senate nominee, Republican support for whoever emerges from the runoff is less certain.
* Only 62% of Republicans said they'd vote for Paxton over Talarico. And Cornyn fared slightly worse, with just 60% promising to check the box for him.
* There's still a ways to go before early voting starts May 18 and the actual runoff begins, which likely means the mutual eye-poking and nose-bloodying will continue and intensify. What remains unclear is whether, after months of mutual destruction, Republicans can reunify once the runoff ends.
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Original text here: https://www.dscc.org/article/icymi-cornyn-paxton-senate-runoff-grows-increasingly-bitter-as-gop-unity-fears-mount-houston-chronicle/
"Instead of Showing Up, This Chair is Empty": Pennsylvania Nurse Slams Ryan Mackenzie for Gutting Medicaid, Failing to Attend Town Hall
WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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"Instead of Showing Up, This Chair is Empty": Pennsylvania Nurse Slams Ryan Mackenzie for Gutting Medicaid, Failing to Attend Town Hall
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Last year, Ryan Mackenzie cast a decisive vote for the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, ripping away health care from hardworking Pennsylvanians in his district and unleashing skyrocketing premiums.
To make matters worse, when Mackenzie's constituents asked to meet him face-to-face to answer for his disastrous record, he couldn't be bothered
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WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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"Instead of Showing Up, This Chair is Empty": Pennsylvania Nurse Slams Ryan Mackenzie for Gutting Medicaid, Failing to Attend Town Hall
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Last year, Ryan Mackenzie cast a decisive vote for the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, ripping away health care from hardworking Pennsylvanians in his district and unleashing skyrocketing premiums.
To make matters worse, when Mackenzie's constituents asked to meet him face-to-face to answer for his disastrous record, he couldn't be botheredto show up.
Hear what one Allentown nurse had to say to about Mackenzie's absence:
* "Without Medicaid, my mom couldn't have access to care she needed. She would have suffered more than she already did, and would certainly have died sooner."
* "Because of Medicaid, health care workers could care for her medical needs so I could spend the final months with her as her daughter, not her nurse."
* "As a nurse, I see patients refusing treatment and tests because they simply can't afford it anymore."
* "And this affordability crisis doesn't just hurt people on Medicaid, it hurts people from all walks of life."
* "I went back to school believing nursing would provide stability. Instead, my health care premiums and deductibles keep rising [...] The people caring for sick patients can't even afford to care for themselves."
* Representative Ryan Mackenzie was invited to be here to listen to the people whose lives are directly impacted by the decisions being made in Washington. But instead of showing up, this chair is empty, and that empty chair says everything. It says that the voices of working people are not being prioritized, that says that families like mine are expected to struggle in silence while politicians debate cutting the very programs that keep people alive."
* "I wish Representative Mackenzie would have met my mom. I wish he could have seen what ALS does to a person. I wish he could have watched a family trying to hold everything together while navigating a health care system designed to exhaust people emotionally, physically and financially. Because then maybe he would understand that these are not just policy debates, these are human lives."
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Original text here: https://dccc.org/instead-of-showing-up-this-chair-is-empty-pennsylvania-nurse-slams-ryan-mackenzie-for-gutting-medicaid-failing-to-attend-town-hall/
