Tim Ryan is a Democrat who shows how to win back white working-class voters

The Democrats are playing catch-up with Representative Tim Ryan in a tight race for an open US Senate seat from Ohio — with a little help from his party. Republicans put about $40 million in ads hillbilly epitaph Author JD Vance campaign since Labor Day, for $4.5 million from Dems for Ryan. But Ryan turned the race that Vance should easily win (considering Ohio’s red tilt and the unpopular Democrat in the White House) into a cage match. Both are native Ohioans, with Vance formed by the struggles of Appalachia,…

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Can the MAGA cavalry save JD Vance from the apathy unleashed by the Ohio “Hillbilly” party?

YONGSOWN, Ohio – The night before the Secret Service, RV merchandise vendors and thousands of big MAGA fans descended on Youngstown for a Trump rally in honor of Republican Senate contender J.D. Vance, the city’s biggest show under the lights at Ryan Stadium. Paying off COVID-19 relief funds and the site of the first-ever penalty mark tossed at an American football game in 1941, the renovated ground reached its maximum capacity of 7,000 by halftime for the highly anticipated Chaney v Canfield, a suburban-city rivalry With high school football teams…

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Anti-drug charity Vance has enlisted the doctor, echoing Big Pharma

Columbus, Ohio – When JD Vance He founded Renew Ohio the day after the 2016 presidential election, and he promoted the charity as a way to help solve the scourge of opioid addiction he lamented in his bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elijah. But Vance closed the nonprofit last year and founded it in May, shortly after The Republican Party’s nomination for the US Senate has been decidedAccording to state records reviewed by The Associated Press. An Associated Press review found that the charity’s most notable achievement — sending an addiction specialist…

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Robert Barnes, attorney for Alex Jones, has removed hate groups from Rumble’s content policy

While the online video platform Rumble has taken a long time Cash To amplify right-wing misinformation and conspiracy theories, the video hosting service is poised to go in a darker direction, hiring an attorney Alex Jones to craft new content modification policies that remove existing bans on hate-promoting or inciting material groups. In June, Rumble tasked one of Jones’ long-standing libel attorneys with the task of reforming the site’s oversight rules. And he made some troubling changes. Attorney Robert Barnes, is a frequent guest on Infowars and Sandy Hook’s top…

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JD Vance quietly supports Bill

When a bipartisan majority in Congress passed a massive bill to invest nearly $300 billion in boosting high-tech manufacturing in the United States, it was a perfect opportunity — on paper at least — for JD Vance to amplify his hawkish brand of America First populist policies. The Ohio Senate candidate’s closest ideological allies have surely manipulated the bill: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ge), an early major supporter of Vance’s campaign, threw CHIPS — which she called “America LAST!” – As a curse on the MAGA movement. “Congress is disgusting,”…

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How Trump billionaire Peter Thiel is single-handedly reshaping the campaigns of JD Vance and Blake Masters

When tech billionaire Peter Thiel pours his money into candidates, he doesn’t just donate; He’s buying a new strategy to reshape the way campaigns are run — a strategy that legal experts say subvert traditional campaign laws. Despite the way Thiel’s donations make headlines, he doesn’t give the bulk of his money to individual candidates. This is largely because he can’t. Federal law limits individual campaign contributions to a relatively low amount – $5,800 for an entire election cycle. Instead, the bulk of Thiel’s money goes to external groups called…

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Peter Thiel invests heavily in the companies of his favorite candidates Blake Masters and JD Vance Love to Hate

During the campaign, Republican Senate candidates J.D. Vance and Blake Masters bemoaned the housing crisis, blaming investment firms for making the United States a “tenant country.” But they may want to be careful about what they say. The biggest and most well-known beneficiary is investing heavily in companies that the two candidates blame for raising prices – both of which have real estate investment ties as well. Vance and Masters specifically targeted BlackRock and Blackstone to collect homes and raise prices across the country. Both men also have deep personal…

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Inside GOP Freakout About JD Vance’s Senate Campaign

When JD Vance took to stage at the Conservative convention last week, he should have elicited sighs of relief from Republicans hoping to see the Ohio Republican Senate candidate hit the campaign trail even stronger. There was only one problem: The stage that Vance plotted was in Israel, 6,000 miles from Ohio. The sight of Vance gushing in Tel Aviv about Israel’s high birth rates – to a friendly audience filled with plenty of conservatives but almost certainly no voters in Ohio – seemed to clear some Republicans of whatever…

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