The United States has a problem with violence against women, and domestic violence in particular. Nearly 1 in 4 adult women experience assault from their partner. The government has taken steps to address this epidemic of violence via the Violence Against Women Act, which was first ratified in 1994 and was most recently reauthorized in 2022. Domestic violence rates dropped 67% between 1993 and 2022, and it is up for reauthorization again in 2027.
The upcoming reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act is just one of many reasons it is essential that the Democrats take back control of Congress, because congressional Republicans have a cavalier attitude toward domestic violence.
Now we all know that congressional Republicans were all over getting Graham Platner out of the Maine Senate race because of allegations that he raped a woman. But they’ve been taking a different route when it comes to Max Miller, a House rep from Ohio.
Miller is credibly accused of domestic violence:
In mid-March, two detectives, an Ohio county Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) caseworker, and a Cleveland Clinic physician met on Zoom to discuss how the 2-year-old daughter of a congressman and granddaughter of a US senator wound up with a broken collarbone.
“The bruising surrounding the clavicle fracture made the injury suspicious,” wrote one of the detectives who summarized the Zoom meeting. Further, someone on the call “advised the injury would have required a high degree of impact to occur.”
Neither the child’s father, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), nor mother, conservative policy adviser Emily Moreno, admitted to knowing what caused their daughter’s injury or that it occurred while their daughter was under their care. Miller’s primary theory was that the bruising resembled marks from a seat belt. Moreno, who discovered the bruises and took the child to an emergency room, suggested the cause may have been something more sinister. Records of the investigation into potential child abuse show that Moreno told detectives that Miller had previously thrown hot water at her, shoved her, and held a gun to her head; therefore, she couldn’t rule out that Miller caused their daughter’s fracture. Moreover, a child protection specialist reviewing the incident had characterized the bruising near the fracture as resembling a “handprint.”
“Daddy’s house is scary,” Moreno recounted her daughter saying, according to a Bay Village, Ohio, investigative report relating to the February 2026 injury.
Simply reprehensible. There’s more:
The summary of the Zoom meeting and investigative report are among more than 2,000 pages of court filings and police reports pertaining to Miller that Mother Jones obtained through public records requests. The trove of documents contains allegations of drug use by Miller, misogyny and verbal abuse, and violent behavior against multiple women.
And it’s not like this is all brand new about him—from 2021:
And barely more than a year ago, according to three people familiar with the incident, Miller’s romantic relationship with former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham ended when he pushed her against a wall and slapped her in the face in his Washington apartment after she accused him of cheating on her.
His abuse of women was on full display in high school:
That night, with eight to 10 friends at Miller’s house, Miller pushed a girl out the door of his room and she fell down some stairs after he became enraged when she resisted his attempts to touch her, according to three people who were there and many more who heard about the incident in the aftermath.
“He flipped a switch,” one witness told me.
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The girl was not physically hurt. There was no trip to the hospital. Nobody called the police. Miller, through his attorney, “categorically denies” that this incident happened.
But people who were there and who knew Miller and the girl talked about it after it happened. “It wasn’t a secret,” said a female classmate. “Everybody knew about it,” said a male classmate. “It’s always,” said another female classmate, “kind of been a point of discussion regarding Max Miller.”
And his abuse of women was openly talked about–from 2023:
It’s sickening how many GOP candidates get passes on assaulting people, and especially women.
Miller also appears to have obliquely threatened his father-in-law:
Nor did the spokesperson respond to questions about the toxicology report that Mother Jones obtained or about an apparent threat Miller made by text to his former father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno, which is documented in court filings.
“I’m sick of this, you know I never hurt our daughter. Take this however you want, everyone is going to get to know you better than your wife does,” Miller wrote to Bernie Moreno, according to an exhibit referenced in Emily Moreno’s motion for a restraining order. “Enjoy the ride brother, I wouldn’t have to do this if you could keep your lying daughter under control.”
Yes, this fake tough guy:
Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
And if Miller looks vaguely familiar, it’s because he was part of this stunt:
And before you write this off as something that cannot be changed, earlier this month a Republican member of the WV legislature was arrested and charged with enticing a minor, and the WV GOP pushed him into resigning his seat, which he eventually did a week later. It is possible, but it takes the amount of pressure to turn carbon into a diamond.
I’ll leave you with this: