Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.
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On January 6th, Arkansas Congressman Bruce Westerman hid from the MAGA mob in a locked bathroom, crouched on a toilet holding a ceremonial Civil War sword.
Westerman told Arkansans data centers get a 'bad rap' and that the Public Service Commission needs to be 'on their A game.' Entergy Arkansas started billing customers in June for three unfinished plants in his own district — one built to feed Google — and 23 electric-power PACs have given him $128,000.
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Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford makes $174,000 a year, and he's suing the United States government for a retroactive raise, demanding nearly $419,000 in back pay.
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Officially, Tom Cotton's residence is a tiny 900-square-foot apartment in Little Rock, but his own neighbors say they never see him, and one across the hall didn't even know anyone lived there.
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For 52 straight weeks, a 90-year-old woman and her neighbors have stood on a Little Rock street corner in rain, heat, sleet and snow, asking their representative, MAGA Congressman French Hill, to hold a single in-person town hall.
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A group called "Arkansans for Democracy and Justice" is flooding Arkansas with attack ads, but it is registered in Alabama, uses out-of-state vendors and hasn't received a single dime from actual Arkansans.
Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
On September 16 the House passed the PROOF Act, 217-207. It orders states to turn over whatever Medicaid, SNAP and other benefit records Attorney General Todd Blanche asks for in writing, with no judge involved. A federal court had already blocked the Trump administration from cutting food stamp funding to states that refused to hand over recipient data. 185 of the members who voted yes have report cards on this site.
