Why this matters for America: After facing pressure from Trump’s political team, Gov. Greg Abbott has asked lawmakers to ...

Redistricting battles in Texas, Ohio, and California will likely determine control of the House during the 2026 midterm elections.

Cynthia Lee Almond spent four years in the Alabama Legislature and 16 years on the Tuscaloosa City Council before being ...

Political operative David Barton held up a thick Bible with years of wear on its dark brown cover and proclaimed its pages ...

When Robert Smith met his future girlfriend in 2010, he wanted to take things slowly. For Smith, no relationship had been ...

We wrote about the confusion the redistricting push caused last week. The state’s Democrats expressed anger that a special session called in the wake of the disaster would probably be consumed with a ...

A new Chancellor of Southern University at New Orleans was announced on Friday, July 18. The Southern University Board of ...

Community funding projects are roaring back for fiscal 2026 spending bills, after being stripped from a short-term stopgap spending deal earlier this year, as the House faces the difficult task ...

I hope I’ve made a couple of things clear so far in the things I’ve written about the 2026 Senate race in Louisiana, a topic which is likely to fill up this site in the coming months as more entrants ...