Alex Roarty

1 week ago | notus.org | Alex Roarty

Nathan Sage is a Marine veteran who says he grew up in a trailer park and skipped the three most recent contested Democratic presidential caucuses in Iowa despite being a native of the state. He’s also now a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in the Republican state. Sage, a 40-year-old executive director of a local Chamber of Commerce in Iowa, launched a bid Wednesday for a seat held by Republican Sen.

2 weeks ago | notus.org | Alex Roarty |Taylor Giorno

In the hours before the U.S.’s global tariffs took effect, President Donald Trump was boasting to a room of lawmakers, allies and donors at a House Republican fundraising dinner. Speaker Mike Johnson was sitting at a table near the stage, checking the Drudge Report. Splashed across his phone screen were the words, “Stocks Continue Plunge,” NOTUS spotted. The room at the National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser was “upbeat” and “high energy,” one source told NOTUS. Rep.

Dec 23, 2024 | notus.org | Oriana González |Alex Roarty |Oriana Gonzalez

Republicans’ political breakthrough on attacks on transgender rights has profound implications for the coming off-year elections and a wave of legislative fights both parties expect will accelerate in 2025. After a string of elections in which the attacks appeared politically ineffective, they suddenly came through for Republicans in 2024, resonating with at least some voters and putting Democrats on the defensive to such a degree that they hardly even fought back.

Dec 10, 2024 | notus.org | Alex Roarty

A scant two weeks before the election, Dave McCormick boarded a predawn flight headed across state lines. The Pennsylvania Republican was making a last-minute trip that would eventually see him standing outside the gates of West Point before scrambling back to the state later that afternoon for a major campaign appearance with Elon Musk.

Dec 2, 2024 | notus.org | Evan McMorris-Santoro |Alex Roarty

The Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association is unique among the various Democratic Party organs that slosh cash around ahead of elections. Recently reconstituted after years of dormancy, the DLGA is one of the few places where the national party builds someone an electoral ladder. Should you be the right candidate, the group will help you assemble a campaign team, raise money and run for the quixotic office of LG.