After a week of uncertainty and misgivings over Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s potential role in a recount in the Kansas governor primary, incumbent Governor Jeff Colyer has officially conceded the Republican race. Kobach currently leads by 110 votes. Colyer, who was lieutenant governor for seven years, has…
Days after the Kansas gubernatorial primary election, only 191 votes separate incumbent Republican Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer from his challenger, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, and things are getting very tense.
In “yes, people really are this ridiculous” news, a Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives was recently caught on video taking down his primary opponent’s campaign fliers and replacing them with his own. On Tuesday, the victim, Raymond Blacklidge, filed a report against the perpetrator, Jeremy…
On Tuesday, voters cast their ballots on a number of pressing issues and some extremely-good-to-absolutely-evil candidates. But there was one particular issue on the ballot that could help shape the future of the Democratic party, the age old question: Is Weezer good?
On Tuesday night, former Michigan State Representative Rashida Tlaib made history. Tlaib won the Democratic primary election in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District. She will run unopposed in the general election, and is thus set to become the first Muslim woman—and the first Palestinian-American woman—to ever be…
At a Republican campaign rally in Ohio on Saturday, accused sexual predator Donald Trump hugged and lavished praise on Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, who is accused of ignoring the sexual assault of dozens of athletes by a former physician at Ohio State University, when Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach in the…
Progressives in Michigan scored a hard-fought victory today when it was announced that a proposal to create an independent redistricting commission will be on the ballot this November, according to a report from The Detroit News.
Voters in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District already had plenty of reasons to oust Republican Rep. Jason Lewis in November’s midterm elections. Now, CNN has unearthed more disgraceful comments Lewis—who is sometimes referred to as a “mini-Trump”—made as a conservative radio host from 2009-2012 and in subsequent…
The California Supreme Court has decided to block an initiative that would put to a vote an idea to split the state into three. The proposition will no longer appear on the ballot this November.
Here’s a rare bit of non-terrible news: Boston’s non-citizens may soon get to vote in local elections, the Associated Press reported.
Following a trip this week to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton made the rounds of Sunday news talk shows to normalize President Donald Trump’s upcoming summit with the leader behind attacks on U.S. elections.
It’s hard to overstate the significance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset primary win over 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th Congressional district. She is a working-class Latina who was bartending less than a year ago. She is an unapologetic socialist who called for abolishing ICE back in February.…
By a vote of 5–4, the Supreme Court on Monday handed Texas Republicans a victory by rejecting a lower court decision which said that a number of the state’s majority-Republican congressional districts had been drawn specifically to undercut the voting rights of people of color.
In 2010, enraged grassroots conservatives launched an insurgency against the Republican establishment. The Tea Party movement ran a series of primary challengers accusing Republicans of being insufficiently oppositional to President Obama.
Roughly 140,000 registered voters in Arizona’s Maricopa County did not receive their voter identification cards ahead of a special congressional election on Tuesday.
If you opened a copy of Wednesday’s New York Times, you were treated to this full-page ad on page A5:
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There are three major candidates in the race for the next governor of Michigan: Abdul El-Sayed, a leftist candidate in the mold of Bernie Sanders; Gretchen Whitmer, an establishment candidate who happily holds fundraisers with health insurance companies; and Shri Thanedar, a completely fake progressive who claims…
In a stunt that South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick characterized as “hysterical,” Republican U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman drew a loaded .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun and left it on the table during a “coffee with constituents” event on Friday.
At a press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven on Tuesday, President Donald Trump fielded questions about what the U.S. is doing to counteract possible Russian interference in its elections this year and in 2020. This was Trump’s response, per Politico:
