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So-called “rational Republicans” want conservatives to vote for moderates or Dems to save democracy. NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks to Republican former NJ Gov. and EPA Admin. Christine Todd Whitman.

A group of anti-Trump Republicans on Thursday will endorse a slate of Democratic lawmakers facing tough races in next year’s midterm elections, in a bid to stop the Republican Party from retaking control of Congress. The officials, dismayed that most elected Republicans now embrace former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was

By Miles Taylor and Christine Todd Whitman After Donald Trump’s defeat, there was a measure of hope among Republicans who opposed him that control of the party would be up for grabs, and that conservative pragmatists could take it back. But it’s become obvious that political extremists maintain a viselike grip on the national and

By Jim Greenwood and Murray Dickman Most Pennsylvania Republican State Senators seem hell bent to follow in the unguided footsteps of their brethren in Arizona into Trump lunacy land to perform a so-called “forensic audit” of the 2020 election. The Commonwealth Republican Leadership should reject such a crazy idea. For many months now, the Harrisburg

The group plans to raise “tens of millions” of dollars to support or oppose candidates, regardless of party, to defeat “radical Republicans” who support former President Donald Trump in four to five Senate races and about two dozen House races in next year’s midterm elections. It will also recruit candidates to run in GOP primaries

Are you tired of the lies, the fearmongering and conspiracy theories? What about a political party that denies the reality of a global pandemic, attacks the efficacy of lifesaving vaccines, or denies the science and impact of climate change? Can you tolerate leaders who fomented and in some cases even participated in a violent assault

By Chris Vance The rise of Donald Trump and the transformation of the Republican party created a new American political movement as millions of formerly Republican leaning voters, and hundreds of prominent former Republican leaders, turned against Trump and his new authoritarian Republican party. Multiple organizations were formed to help defeat Trump and elect President

A coalition of Republican and independent leaders released “A Call for American Renewal,” urging “a principles-based vision for American leadership, as an alternative to the current direction of the Republican Party and growing extremism in the nation.”

Backers of the reform group are said to include former Republican Governors Tom Ridge, Christine Todd Whitman, George W. Bush-era Transportation Secretary Mary Peters and former House members Charlie Dent, Barbara Comstock, Reid Ribble and Mickey Edwards.