LAUREN BOEBERT

Seven states are set to host primary elections Tuesday as the nation comes to terms with last week’s stunning Supreme Court ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.

Zachary Petrizzo for The Daily BeastRight-wing media has long been convinced any pallets of bricks are solely the property of anti-fascist activists. And on Friday night, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was tripped up over the conspiracy theory. “@CapitolPolice why are there 20 pallets of bricks one block from the House Office Buildings?” Boebert tweeted, apparently alluding to the standard bricks the right believes are owned by potential antifa activists.Yet as it turned out, the bricks are part of

Chasten Buttigieg on Wednesday called out Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for recently tweeting her support for America’s fathers despite having “attacked” his husband, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, when he was at the hospital with their son last year. Chasten said he and Buttigieg’s “two-month-old son was on a ventilator at the children’s hospital when…

On Monday, Boebert sent a letter to US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg strongly supporting the South Bridge Project in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

The attorney for Rep. Lauren Boebert sent a letter to the American Muckrakers PAC's David Wheeler about the "false and defamatory statements" claiming the congresswoman was an escort.

EVELYN HOCKSTEINDemocrats have seized on a political action committee’s allegations that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) worked as a prostitute and had multiple abortions—claims that rest on zero actual evidence.On Tuesday, American Muckrakers PAC, co-founded by Democrat and former North Carolina state Senate candidate David Wheeler, published allegations claiming that Boebert had previously worked as an escort on a sugar-daddy website and underwent at least two abortions, one of which was related to

"I do want you to know that I pray for our president. Psalm 109:8 says, 'May his days be few and another take his office,'" Boebert said with a laugh.

The plan shows how the GOP would address climate and energy issues if the party wins control of the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections.

The right-wing congresswoman and gay musical comedian exchanged words on Twitter when she invoked his name in a hateful conspiracy theory.

An appeals court ruled that Donald Trump and two of his children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, must comply with subpoenas and testify in a civil investigation by the New York attorney general's office. CBS News investigative reporter Graham Kates shares the latest on "Red and Blue."

"Why even be in Congress if you don't believe in doing your job?" Ocasio-Cortez replied after Boebert tweeted: "You cannot legislate away evil."

“There are some conservative political figures that will hint about this theory or speak about it in code," said 9News' Kyle Clark. Boebert is not one of them.

“Hi Rep. Boebert — Ask Rep Cawthorn about us. We look forwarding [sic] to getting to know you," American Muckrakers PAC wrote in an ominous tweet.

Musk tweeted that he voted Democrat in the past "because they were (mostly) the kindness party," but added that he "can no longer support them."

"I think we're gonna engage in that race pretty quickly," David Wheeler, of the American Muckrakers PAC, told Insider of the group's "Fire Boebert" plans.

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin flipped the extremist Colorado Republican's comments right back at her.

Text messages and testimony released by the House Jan. 6 panel shows the deep involvement of some House Republicans in President Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power.

The Department of Homeland Security announced plans to make airport security more accommodating for transgender travelers, but GOP lawmakers are opposed.

Placeholder while article actions loadA group of House Republicans has asked Twitter’s board of directors to preserve all correspondence related to Elon Musk’s proposed takeover, according to a letter released Friday. On Thursday, Musk said he had secured $46.5 billion in financing to support his bid for the social media platform. The Tesla chief executive launched his hostile takeover bid earlier this month, saying he thinks Twitter is essential to a functioning democracy. Many Republicans, including Jordan and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) have cheered Musk’s bid, characterizing the billionaire as a crusader for free speech. AdvertisementTensions have been brewing between Republicans and Twitter for years, with conservatives accusing the site of censoring their voices.

Long-shot candidates build social media clout, and donor lists, by “running against villains.”

"Under current law, Disney loses its Mickey Mouse copyright on January 1, 2024," Banks said in a letter to Disney, adding that he will not support an extension on the copyright.

The extremist Republican self-owned with three of her most honest words yet, said critics on Twitter.

"We require people to be 21 to purchase alcohol beverages, and 21 to purchase tobacco products," Boebert tweeted on Friday.

Jarrin Jackson, who said he plans to run as a Republican for Oklahoma state senate, repeated falsehoods about Dominion.

People couldn't believe the Colorado Republican's tweet was real.

The bill passed 424-8 and allows President Biden to increase tariffs on products coming from the two countries amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Congressional candidate Adam Frisch sent a letter to the Colorado U.S. Attorney's Office demanding a federal investigation into Rep. Lauren Boebert.

The "Late Night" comedian flipped the conspiracy theorist Republican's "Prince John" gaffe right back on her.

The GOP lawmaker flubbed two attack lines in a Fox News interview.

Twitter users taunted the extremist Colorado Republican over her “profound gem” of a post.

Many critics responded to the conspiracy theory-endorsing Colorado Republican's tweet with the same sentiment.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had stern words for two of the most right-wing members of her chamber after their outbursts during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union.

Boebert and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) taunted the president as he delivered his State of the Union address, at one point chanting at him “Build the wall!”

"It was that sitting in the garage for a week type of trash," Jaime Harrison tweeted, calling Boebert and Greene "juvenile delinquents."

"It was that sitting in the garage for a week type of trash," Jaime Harrison wrote, calling Boebert and Greene "juvenile deliquents" in another tweet.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) interrupted President Biden as he discussed his late son Beau Biden at his first State of the Union address on March 1.

Rep. Lauren Boebert got booed for interjecting during President Joe Biden’s remarks about sick Army veterans and the death of his son Beau.

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert heckled President Biden during his State of the Union speech as he was describing the death of his son Beau Biden, an Iraq war veteran who succumbed to brain cancer.

EVELYN HOCKSTEINRep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) attempted to make Tuesday night’s State of the Union address all about herself—only to get booed by her colleagues as President Joe Biden solemnly talked about his son dying of cancer and military veterans suffering from burn pit exposure.Towards the end of his speech, the president turned his attention to an issue that has drawn bipartisan support and attention: increased care for soldiers who have suffered the effects of toxic exposure.As he announced

A moment about the death of President Joe Biden's son during the State of the Union address turned into a stunning outburst by one of the Republican’s most outspoken members.

As President Joe Biden was coming to the end of his State of the Union address Tuesday night, a somber moment about his son’s death turned into a stunning outburst by one of the Republicans' most outspoken members. Delivering the loudest heckling of Biden during the speech, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado blamed Biden for the 13 service members who were killed during the U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan. It was just the latest breach of decorum for a presidential address, an annual event where unruly behavior by lawmakers has become almost expected.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., heckled President Biden during Tuesday’s State of the Union just before he recalled his late son Beau Biden’s brain cancer.

Boebert's outburst came just as Biden mentioned his son Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015.

As Ukrainians fight for their lives during the Russian invasion, the extremist lawmaker used their plight to nonsensically push her ideology.

“I’m sure that sounded much better in your head,” one critic fired back at the Colorado Republican.

The Colorado congresswoman is getting called out on Twitter.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) reportedly asked a group of Jewish individuals who were visiting the Capitol if they were there to do "reconnaissance," the visitors told BuzzFeed News.Boebert is said to have seen the group of visitors on Thursday, looked at them "head to toe" and asked if they were visiting the Capitol to do "reconnaissance," one person who saw the interaction told the outlet."You know, I'm not sure to be offended or not," one of...

"I'm too short to see anyone's yarmulkes," said Boebert. Her office said that she was actually trying to make a joking reference to January 6.

The Colorado Republican left the visitors “confused” after a short encounter.View Entire Post ›

Lauren Boebert, Lindsey Graham, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kevin McCarthy, Kayleigh McEnany and Josh Hawley were all slammed for hypocrisy.

"She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home," her office said in a statement on Sunday.

Twitter users mockingly suggested the far-right Colorado Republican had offered her resignation with the post.

Critics pointed out the flaws with the conspiracy theorist Colorado Republican’s defense of her fellow far-right extremist.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday shot back at criticisms from right-wing figures after a photo of her on vacation with her boyfriend in Florida was shared online, suggesting that her critics stop "projecting their sexual frustrations" on her.Steve Cortes, a former Trump campaign adviser, shared a photo on Twitter on Friday of Ocasio-Cortez in public with her boyfriend Riley Roberts vacationing in Florida.Cortes attacked Ocasio-...

The House has delivered its first formal response to Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert's anti-Muslim remarks by passing a bill to tackle Islamophobia worldwide.

Progressive Democrats are ratcheting up pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to punish firebrand conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado for her recent comments likening a Muslim member of Congress to a bomb-carrying terrorist.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears to have settled on a strategy as a handful of Republican lawmakers stir outrage with violent, racist and sometimes Islamophobic comments: If you can’t police them, promote them.

Conservative congresswoman Lauren Boebert has spoken by phone with congresswoman Ilhan Omar just days after likening the Minnesota Democrat to a bomb-carrying terrorist.

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is imploring House Republican leaders to do more to tamp down “anti-Muslim hatred” in their ranks.

Minnesota's Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is calling on House leaders to take “appropriate action" against Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert for using anti-Muslim language in describing a recent encounter with Omar.

The House has voted to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona for posting an animated video that depicted him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.

Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona is facing censure in the House over a violent video he posted online.

It was 2015 when Congress last approved a major renewal of federal highway and other transportation programs.

Ten House Democrats say they will introduce a House resolution to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar for tweeting a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.

Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar is facing criticism after he tweeted a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.

The House panel investigating the Jan_ 6 Capitol insurrection has focused some of its early work on the planning behind a massive rally at which President Donald Trump falsely claimed to have won reelection and told his supporters to “fight like hell.”.

Details are still emerging about how Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is asking social media and telecommunications companies to preserve phone or computer records for hundreds of people.

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert has disclosed that her husband worked as consultant for a energy firm during her run for Congress last year.

Republican lawmakers are under increasing pressure to persuade vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious COVID-19 variant sends caseloads soaring.

Republican lawmakers are under increasing pressure to persuade vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious COVID-19 variant sends caseloads soaring.

A federal judge has ruled that Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert does not have to unblock a former Democratic Colorado state lawmaker from her personal Twitter account.

House Republicans are rebelling against the requirement that they wear a mask on the House floor.

Thousands of social media posts have misleadingly painted President Joe Biden and his administration as catalysts of chaos who not only mishandled the temporary shutdown of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline last Friday, but engineered it.

Republicans are increasingly using food — especially beef — as a cudgel in the culture war.

As the impact of climate change becomes more apparent, misinformation about it is shifting to focus more and more on extreme weather.

On Wednesday, Reinfeld was reeling from the latest mass shooting even closer to home, after authorities say a 21-year-old gunned down shoppers at a local grocery store. “I could see at some point leaving because of all this,” said Reinfeld, a gun control activist. But it's also been haunted by shootings that have helped define the nation's decades-long struggle with mass violence. The Aurora shooting brought that terror from schools to a movie theater. After each of Colorado's biggest massacres, the local gun control movement has gained heartbroken new recruits.

The bill passed mostly along party lines, with eight Republicans joining all but one Democratic lawmaker in voting for the bill. It is one of the largest land protection packages Congress has ever considered and covers almost 3 million acres of public lands, overwhelmingly in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona. The ideological split over the bill was evident as the congressional delegation from Colorado debated the measure on the House floor. The legislation encompassed bills from Rep. Joe Neguse and DeGette that would affect more than 1 million acres of public lands in the state. “I prefer public lands with many uses," he said.

(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)With millions of Texas residents still without power amid frigid temperatures, conservative commentators have falsely claimed that wind turbines and solar energy were primarily to blame. “We should never build another wind turbine in Texas,” read a Tuesday Facebook post from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. Still a variety of misleading claims spread on social media around renewable energy, with wind turbines and the Green New Deal getting much of the attention. AdA viral photo of a helicopter de-icing a wind turbine was shared with claims it showed a “chemical” solution being applied to one of the massive wind generators in Texas. On top of that, while Texas has ramped up wind energy in recent years, the state still relies on wind power for only about 25% of its total electricity, according to ERCOT data.

But unlike Greene, Boebert doesn't hail from an overwhelmingly GOP, safe district. But unlike Greene, Boebert doesn't hail from an overwhelmingly GOP, safe district. The question strategists in Colorado and elsewhere in this divided country are asking is whether Boebert is a fluke — or the future. AdIn an interview, Boebert said the district's voters are eager for disruption. Boebert insists she and the rest of the first-term class of lawmakers are the future, even in districts like hers.

The agency's officials did not answer directly when Democrats on the House Committee on Administration asked in 2018 how many lawmakers carry firearms in the Capitol. Aides can carry lawmakers’ weapons for them on the Capitol complex, he wrote. He said members and their staffs carry firearms around the Capitol “all the time,” though he mentioned no names. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., chairman of the House Second Amendment Caucus, justified letting lawmakers carry weapons. Its officers routinely arrest people caught trying to carry weapons at the Capitol.