Free Beacon Todd Shepherd

Todd Shepherd is a former staff writer for the Washington Free Beacon. He began his reporting career in radio, working as an anchor and reporter for KOMA in Oklahoma City and KOA in Denver. He spent eight years as the investigative reporter for the Independence Institute in Colorado, a free-market-based think tank. Campaigns and Elections magazine named him a "Top Colorado Influencer" for his reporting and news blog. He’s a graduate of the media studies program from Oklahoma Baptist University.


Congress Threatens Funding for Controversial Cancer Research Group

Pressure ratchets up as House Science committee asks embattled agency for testimony

Watchdog Files Open Records Requests Seeking Comey’s Personal Emails

Report by IG only details small number of emails sent from personal computer

Jared Polis

Dem Rep Sponsoring Trump Tax Cut Repeal Paid No Taxes for Five Years

Repeal could cost the state of Colorado hundreds of millions

Steyer-Led Petition Effort in AZ Accused of Employing 27 More Felons

Group opposed says those signature gatherers have serious criminal records

GOP Asks New Director of Embattled Science Lab for Committee Testimony

Committee said agency 'was an affront to science' under previous leadership

Texas Dem Candidate for Governor Has Yet to Run Single Facebook Ad

Democrats have said it’s a 'single-digit' race, but Republicans scoff

Jared Polis

Polis Cuts Checks to Campaign After Good News for Challenger

The once-presumed front-runner is funding his own campaign

Expert: NASA's Cybersecurity Flaws Leave Agency Exposed to International Threats

IG: Agency Tasked With Providing IT Security Was Ineffective For A Full Decade

Mick Mulvaney

CFPB Political Battles Will Reignite in June When Mulvaney's Term Is Up

If a nominee is rejected, Mulvaney will serve an additional 210 days

Tom Steyer

Group Says Steyer's Town Halls Fail His Own Standards for Transparency

'Need to Impeach' meetings by California billionaire now selectively ban recording