There are 7 article(s) tagged Republican Party:

• March 2025

  • Bailey: Kustoff, OLPH and a mixed-up message

    When Republican Rep. David Kustoff was scheduled to speak at a Germantown church, a lot of people wanted to come and ask questions, which led to cancellation of the event.

    By Clay Bailey March 28, 2025

• April 2023

  • Tennessee House Republicans expel Pearson and Jones but not Johnson

    Tennessee Republicans voted to expel two Black Democrats, Justin Pearson of Memphis and Justin Jones of Nashville, on Thursday, April 6, for speaking out of turn during a gun-safety protest a week earlier.

    Related story:

    What happens now that Justin Pearson has been expelled from his House seat

    By Ian Round April 07, 2023

• December 2022

  • Opinion: Some conservative women support abortion rights

    Conservative Kristina Garner writes about her support of limited government, individual freedoms, the right to bear arms, a strong military, and the importance of state and local rights. But on abortion, she writes that decades of discrimination against women lead her and many other conservatives to disagree with the Republican Party’s position.

    By Kristina Garner December 02, 2022

• October 2022

  • Conaway: A note from the Tennessee-Alabama game: Georgia matters

    “If Herschel Walker is elected to the U.S. Senate, make no mistake, Georgia as a state, the Republicans as a party and we as a country will have made a new statement: character doesn’t matter.”

    By Dan Conaway October 21, 2022

  • Sanford: With reelection all but assured, is higher office possible for Gov. Lee?

    Recent speculation has focused on Gov. Bill Lee being a possible national candidate for elected office in the future — if not in 2024, then in 2028.

    By Otis Sanford October 20, 2022

• August 2022

  • Sanford: GOP dominance in Tennessee sprouted in ’94, accelerated in ’08

    “Many rural Tennesseans will no doubt argue, as Ronald Reagan did in 1962, that they did not leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left them. I respectfully disagree.”

    By Otis Sanford August 11, 2022

• August 2019

  • Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize this Republican Party

    In Tennessee, more than 70,000 citizen children live with an undocumented family member. If a large-scale immigration raid occurred in our neighborhoods, it would have ramifications among the nearly 14,000 Latino/Latina children attending Shelby County Schools. 

    By Bryce W. Ashby, Michael J. LaRosa August 14, 2019