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MAGA is Ruining Arkansas

Rick Crawford Called Trump's Tariffs 'a Powerful Move to Help Support American Ag Producers.' That Same Year, Arkansas Led the Nation in Family Farm Bankruptcies.

Rick Crawford Called Trump's Tariffs 'a Powerful Move to Help Support American Ag Producers.' That Same Year, Arkansas Led the Nation in Family Farm Bankruptcies.

A new University of Arkansas tracking project counts 83 farm bankruptcies in Arkansas since 2021 — second only to California, and the most family-farm filings of any state in the country. Crawford told Arkansas farmers the trade war wouldn't hurt them in 2018 — and was still calling the tariffs a powerful move for farmers in 2025.

208 House Republicans Just Voted to Lock In the Food-Safety Layoffs. Complaints About Contaminated Meat Had Risen 40%.

H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.

Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.

Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.

The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.