Chris Collins

Trump with his favorite House Republican, Chris CollinsIt was always just a matter of time. Chris Collins really had no viable defense. He was caught in multiple violations of insider trading statutes.

Trump with his favorite House Republican, Chris CollinsIt was always just a matter of time. Chris Collins really had no viable defense. He was caught in multiple violations of insider trading statutes.

Want to see a right-wing nut's head explode?Big states often have big chunks of territory left over after the congressional districts are drawn, diverse counties and parts of counties that have nothing necessarily in common with each other but don'tfitinto the other districts. In California, the massive 8th district is like that.

On Saturday, Nate McMurray wrote, "Today I am officially declaring my candidacy in New York’s 27th congressional district. In some ways it seems like I never stopped.

Recently, J.D. Scholten, who's still considering another run against Steven King in northwest Iowa, told me that "In the last decade, King has missed 82% of the Small Business Committee hearings and nearly 40% of the Agriculture Committee hearings.

When I met Jeff Merkley in 2007, he was Oegon's state House speaker and a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Gordon Smith. He was a working class guy seeking to join a millionaires club. As minority leader of the state legislature, he directed the successful Democratic drive to win the majority and was unanimously elected speaker in 2006. He ran as an unabashed progressive from day one and Blue America endorsed him.

Only Collins has been arrested so far but Reed sells his votes to fracking interestsThe most conservative congressional district in New York (NY-27) isn't one the DCCC thought was winnable. So they ignored it, allowing a progressive who backs Medicare-for-All, Nate McMurray, to win the primary.

Looks like the Trumpist base isn't interested in Dr. Frankenstein any longer, now that his own monster has banished him. He released a delusional, manipulative video-- starring Corey Lewandowski, Hungarian Nazi, Sebastian Gorka and other #MAGAbomber types-- that has been largely ignored.

For the past decade, the DCCC has been wrong about one of their most basic tenets-- to win in red districts candidates have to go-- or be-- GOP-lite. This has proven a disastrous, failed policy but one the DCCC has dug in on. This cycle, for example, nearly every single candidate they recruited and nearly every single candidate they are supporting with money is a New Dem or Blue Dog from the Republican wing of the party.

How does a progressive Democrat will in a Republican district with an R+11 PVI? Nate McMurray got a helping hand when the FBI barged into Republican incumbent Chris Collins' Manhattan penthouse and arrested him on a long list of charges related to Insider Trading.