‘Let’s make these folks famous’: the leftwing push to raise 18 Republicans’ profiles

Attention-seeking Marjorie Taylor Greene yells at Joe Biden during his State of the Union address while other Republican members keep a lower profile. ‘They are basically Marjorie Taylor Greenes in how they vote.’ Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Juan Ciscomani. Tom Kean Jr. Brian Fitzpatrick. Marc Molinaro. David Schweikert. Brandon Williams … Many Americans would struggle to identify who these people are or what they do.

They are all, in fact, Republican members of Congress. And progressive activists argue that their fate is more crucial to the future of American democracy than more high-profile rightwing political figures such as Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene.