John,
We at American Muckrakers are proud to work with anyone and everyone who opposes fascists, neo-Nazi bigots, right wing extremists, and the ever classic: dumb, mean, hateful politicians. Our work and our findings are transparent and open – we stand by our sources and the credible tips that we investigate when they come to us.
The unique and fresh approach that we take to holding the aforementioned group of self-serving fools accountable has produced some spectacular results. In 2022, we were instrumental in making sure that Madison Cawthorn lost his reelection bid. Later that year, we ran down several credible tips about Lauren Boebert’s past, and released that information so that the public could judge for themselves. Boebert narrowly won her election by just 546 votes. We also received some dirty details about Mark Robinson, the current Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina and the leading 2024 GOP candidate for Governor. (More on this later.)
All of this is to say, we do get asked to take a hard look at Marjorie Taylor Greene regularly. And while MTG is clearly a worthy target, we want to be sure that our work will make an impact.
So that’s why Boebert remains our top target of this cycle: Her margin of victory was razor thin, the smallest among Republican incumbents in 2022. She is weak, her constituents don’t like her, and we can beat her this year. Furthermore, MTG was recently kicked out of the right wing Freedom Caucus, and Boebert was elevated within it. Lauren Boebert, arguably, remains a greater threat to the entire country than MTG or any other insurrectionist GOP member of Congress.
Boebert has also carefully cultivated an image as a devout “Christian mom” to help conceal her true identity as a trainwreck failure with an incredibly sketchy past. She has attacked norms like separation of church and state, saying she “doesn’t believe” all this “separation of church and state junk” at a conference; claimed that God directed her to try to impeach Joe Biden (an effort that was all but squashed by her own party); and now says that she “loves freedom because of Jesus,” again leaning on a caricature of Christianity to justify her divisive politics.