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early and often
Jan. 3, 2024
Ramaswamy Caps Off 2024 Campaign by Veering to the Far Right Embracing MAGA conspiracy theories and welcoming Steve King’s endorsement won’t save his fading presidential campaign.
By Ed Kilgore
marjorie taylor greene
Feb. 4, 2021
House Bars Marjorie Taylor Greene From Committees Over Hateful Rhetoric Because of her rhetoric, Greene will not join the House Budget Committee and the House Education and Labor Committee as originally planned.
By Ed Kilgore
marjorie taylor greene
Feb. 3, 2021
Kevin McCarthy Decides to Protect Marjorie Taylor Greene The top House Republican gave his conspiratorial, pro-violence colleague a slap-on-the-wrist and said he’ll fight efforts to take her off committees.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Giving Marjorie Taylor Greene the Steve King Treatment Might Not Work Taking her off committees is the new favored way of punishing the extremist Republican.
By Ed Kilgore
We’ll Soon Be Rid of Steve King — But Not His Demagoguery The outgoing Republican congressman’s questioning of Kamala Harris’s ancestry shows his racist impulses have not been blunted — nor have his party’s.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
2020 elections
June 3, 2020
Steve King Finally Loses His Congressional Seat The disgraced longtime congressman lost not because of his bigotry, but because of his loss of clout.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
May 13, 2020
Steve King Says He’ll Soon Get Committee Assignments Back With his primary opponents focusing on his loss of clout rather than his bigotry, the prospect of restored committee assignments could be huge.
By Ed Kilgore
Steve King’s Memes Aren’t Edgy, But They Are Revealing The Iowa congressman is fundraising on some very stupid memes.
By Sarah Jones
Steve King Drinks From a Toilet to Own the Libs The embattled congressman said that the water from the combination toilet-fountain some detained migrants are forced to use is “actually pretty good.”
By Matt Stieb
Steve King’s Views on Rape Are Inseparable From His Racism King’s understanding of what gives women and people of color worth rests on how useful they are to his vision of civilization.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Steve King Discusses the Sunny Side of Rape and Incest The embattled old nativist opens up a new front of outrageous comments on abortion.
By Ed Kilgore
Iowa Democrat Aims to Knock Off Steve King, If Republicans Don’t Do It First J.D. Scholten nearly beat King in the 2018 midterms. If the old demagogue survives his primary, Scholten will be waiting.
By Ed Kilgore
Iowa’s Right-Wing ‘Kingmaker’ Vander Plaats Rejects Steve King Bob Vander Plaats is really good at spotting conservative winners. His endorsement of King’s primary challenger tells you a lot.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
July 17, 2019
Is Steve King Finally Running Out of Money and Luck? The old racist’s prospects for reelection don’t look great, but he has exceeded expectations before.
By Ed Kilgore
Steve King, Diamond, and Silk Deflect Racism Charges by Unveiling Racist Bill The white supremacist congressman and the black conservative YouTube personalities have a history.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
house republicans
May 10, 2019
Bad Boys Nunes, King, and Hunter Dominate House GOP Small-Dollar Fundraising Some pols raise grassroots money with charisma or ideology. In today’s House GOP, being outlandishly controversial works.
By Ed Kilgore
white nationalism
Apr. 23, 2019
Steve King Says He Empathizes With Jesus After White Nationalism Rebuke The Iowa rep said he had “better insight” into Christ’s suffering after being reprimanded by his colleagues for normalizing white nationalism.
By Matt Stieb
white nationalism
Apr. 12, 2019
White Nationalism Is the Republican Party’s Meal Ticket This week on Capitol Hill, Republicans tried to distract Americans from their complicity in white nationalism. They ended up drawing attention to it.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Will Iowans Dump Disgraced Racist Steve King? It will be ideology dueling with influence among many Western Iowa conservatives.
By Ed Kilgore
Ilhan Omar Is a Convenient Republican Target The party is hoping to distract attention from their own and their president’s extremism.
By Ed Kilgore
4 Reasons Republicans Are Keeping the Heat on Ilhan Omar Omar is a convenient target for Republicans hoping to distract attention from their own and their president’s extremism.
By Ed Kilgore
false equivalence
Feb. 8, 2019
McCarthy Demands Democrats Treat Two Muslim Members As Bigots Like Steve King It’s a twofer for Republicans seeking to undermine Jewish Democratic allegiances while pleasing conservative evangelicals.
By Ed Kilgore
the national circus
Feb. 6, 2019
Frank Rich: Trump’s Big Speech Failed at Every Level Even looking at the 80-minute-plus laundry list from Trump’s point of view, the State of the Union address seems to be a disaster.
By Frank Rich
republicans
Jan. 16, 2019
Steve King’s Road Map for Racist Republicans The fallout from King’s comments isn’t just turning the GOP against him. It’s showing future racist politicians how to avoid his fate.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Steve King Faces Rebuke, Just as the GOP Doesn’t Need Him Anymore GOP leaders removed the Iowa representative from his seats in the Judiciary and Agriculture Committees for claiming white supremacy isn’t offensive.
By Matt Stieb
Republicans Have Tolerated Steve King’s Racism for a Long Time Until very recently, his fellow Republicans were happy to express solidarity with King despite his notorious nativism.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Congressman: Oh, So Now It’s ‘Offensive’ to Say Whites Are the Supreme Race? “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” congressman Steve King wants to know.
By Eric Levitz
2020 elections
Nov. 11, 2018
With Mixed Feelings, Iowa Democrats Look Forward to Their 2020 Caucuses Iowa Democrats have suffered two rough election years, but that adversity could help the state produce a Trump-ready nominee in 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Oct. 30, 2018
Steve King May Actually Pay a Price For Being a Blatant Racist Iowa’s favorite white nationalist is losing campaign donors — and a new poll shows him statistically tied with a Democrat in his deep-red district.
By Eric Levitz
immigration
Oct. 22, 2018
What a 1970s Racist French Novel Tells Us About the Right’s ‘Caravan’ Panic The Trump-fed panic over migrants heading toward the U.S.–Mexico border sure resembled the plotline of The Camp of the Saints
By Ed Kilgore
18 House Republicans Nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize Will a Peace Prize really be awarded to Trump because of his militaristic bluster, before any peace has even been won?
By Ed Kilgore
#neveragain
Mar. 26, 2018
By Leah Rodriguez
Nobody Seems to Know What Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Wall’ Would Look Like Years after Trump started talking about a border wall, congressional negotiators trying to cut a spending deal still aren’t sure how it’s defined.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Immigration Flip-Flop His astonishing (if shaky) deal with Democrats is a miniature version of the immigration reform efforts that divided the GOP in the recent past.
By Ed Kilgore
Making Sense of Trump’s Announcement About Dreamers He left in place a policy protecting young undocumented immigrants while canceling protections for their parents. It’s unclear what’s next.
By Ed Kilgore
everyday racism
Apr. 26, 2017
Republican Lawmaker Makes Fun of Latina Constituent’s English She was supposed to meet with his legislative director to discuss his stance on immigration.
By Claire Landsbaum
Steve King a Cautionary Tale in Iowa Debate Over Adopting Runoffs In an Iowa legislative debate over getting rid of party conventions to resolve nominations, Steve King’s rise to Congress was an object lesson.
By Ed Kilgore
Steve King, the Nativist Who Just Comes Right Out and Says It While some on the populist right endlessly profess their belief in the equality of all races, religions, and cultures, King doesn’t bother.
By Ed Kilgore
A New Bill Introduced in Congress Would Constitute a Total Abortion Ban Representative Steve King brought forward a new fetal “heartbeat bill.”
By Gabriella Paiella
One of the Most Right-Wing Members of Congress Said He Can Work With Hillary “I’ve sat across the table with Hillary Clinton eye-to-eye,” Iowa representative Steve King said Thursday. “She is somebody I can work with.”
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
June 21, 2016
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 5, 2014
Rand Paul Flees in Terror From Mexican Immigrant Rand Paul plus Steve King plus Dreamer equals hilarity.
By Jonathan Chait
King: Gays Can Trap People Into Discrimination Plus: Homosexuality is a “self-professed behavior.”
By Caroline Bankoff
the national interest
July 25, 2013
By Jonathan Chait
crossing over
July 24, 2013
By Dan Amira
crossing over
July 23, 2013
By Dan Amira
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