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The Republican Party in the United States includes several factions, or wings.During the 19th century, Republican factions included the Half-Breeds, who supported civil service reform; the Radical Republicans, who advocated the immediate and total abolition of slavery, and later advocated civil rights for freed slaves during the Reconstruction era; and the Stalwarts, who supported machine ...
The Squad is an informal group of nine Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives. [1] The Squad is known for being among the most progressive and left-wing members of the United States Congress. All are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The squad was initially composed of four women under age 50, [2] elected in the ...
Elections. The Republican Governance Group, originally the Tuesday Lunch Bunch and then the Tuesday Group until 2020, is a group of moderate Republicans in the United States House of Representatives. [7] It was founded in 1994 in the wake of the Republican takeover of the House; the Republican House caucus came to be dominated by conservatives. [8]
Steve Scalise. Stephen Joseph Scalise[ 1 ] (/ skəˈliːs / skə-LEESS; born October 6, 1965) is an American politician who has been serving as the House majority leader since 2023 and the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district since 2008.
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, says he’s “fighting for my life, politically,” in Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff in a border district.
Political parties. Elections. The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. It emerged as the main political rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party in the mid-1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics ever since.
Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, is a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including nativist tendencies. [1] The name derives from the left–right political spectrum, with the "far right" considered further from center than the standard political right.
Radical Republicans. The Radical Republicans were a political faction within the Republican Party originating from the party's founding in 1854—some six years before the Civil War —until the Compromise of 1877, which effectively ended Reconstruction. They called themselves "Radicals" because of their goal of immediate, complete, and ...