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Environmental Defense Fund will oppose Trump’s candidacy as it aims to spend
The Environmental Defense Fund has announced it will oppose Donald Trump’s bid for the White House, calling the former president’s...
Trump warned Pence certifying election results would be a ‘career killer,’ witness
According to a witness who overheard part of the phone call, then-President Donald Trump told then-Vice President Mike Pence that...
It’s easy to tune out politics. Biden’s campaign is using an app
With so many Americans constantly on their phones, deep in their own echo-chambers, and actively avoiding politics, it can be...
The voting bloc that could decide the US election: Swifties
In a recent instagram post pop star Taylor Swift recommended that her fans, “vote the people who represent YOU into...
Many Haley voters won’t back Trump. They weren’t going to anyway.
Several warning signs show that many Nikki Haley supporters will not coalesce behind Donald Trump in the presidential election. Super...
Trump leads Biden narrowly in Georgia as general election comes into focus-
A new CBS News poll shows former President Donald Trump leading over President Joe Biden; among likely voters surveyed Trump...
Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema will not run for re-election in Arizona
Senator Kyrsten Sinema has announced she will not run for reelection in Arizona. Sinema’s decision paves the way for an...
North Carolina governor race: Mark Robinson and Josh Stein win primaries
Mark Robinson and Josh Stein have been chosen as the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor in North Carolina. Many...
Kari Lake airs election grievances as GOP leaders urge her to look
Republican leaders have advised Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake to avoid airing complaints about prior elections and instead focus on...
Nikki Haley drops out of GOP presidential race and says Trump has
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley suspended her 2024 presidential campaign this week, setting the stage for former President Donald...
Supreme Court to hear arguments in Trump immunity case in April
The United States Supreme Court has decided to hear oral arguments the week of April 22 in the high-stakes dispute...
Nikki Haley wins DC primary, first victory for campaign
Nikki Haley won her first presidential primary on Sunday, defeating Donald Trump in Washington D.C. Haley carried approximately 63% of...
Pennsylvania governor unveils election security task force to mitigate threats to the
Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor Josh Shapiro has announced an election security task force aiming to keep the battleground state free from...
As Trump warns that ‘we’re living in hell right now,’ Biden team
During a recent speech at the Black Conservative Federation Gala in Columbia, South Carolina former President Donald Trump used racially...
Biden campaign makes big Black history push to re-energize Black voters
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is making a big push during Black History Month to publicize the Black history made...
Trump beats Nikki Haley in South Carolina GOP primary
Former President Donald Trump won a sound victory over Nikki Haley in South Carolina’s GOP primary. Haley’s defeat is especially...
Rightwing mega-donors drift back to Trump as election rematch looms
Donald Trump’s efforts to court rightwing billionaires into financing his presidential campaign are bearing fruit as some donors who supported...
Wisconsin governor signs new state legislative maps into law, ending a GOP
Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers signed new legislative maps into law on Monday, shifting the balance of power in a...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib urges Michigan Democrats to vote against Biden in the
Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib urged Democrats in Dearborn, Michigan to vote against President Joe Biden in a message shared across...
Multiple threats to election systems prompt US cybersecurity agency to boost cooperation
Officials with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are introducing a new program this week to the National...
The U.S. Virgin Islands in this week’s most interesting election
Unlike in the general election, United States territories get a say in who each party nominates for president, and citizens...
Arizona prevents election recount nightmare scenario with a bipartisan fix
Republicans and Democrats in Arizona came together to approve an important legislative tweak to the battleground state’s election policies ahead...
Trump is not immune in 2020 election interference case, appeals court rules
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected Donald Trump’s broad claim that he is immune...
‘Virtually impossible’: RNC members say there’s no chance of a convention fight
Unlike 2016, when a group of delegates attempted a last-ditch effort to prevent Donald Trump from securing the Republican Party’s...
How a far-right political group rose to power in Sumner County- and
The Sumner County Constitutional Republicans, a hard-right group supporting the Republican party, acts like a political action committee endorsing candidates,...
Biden nets landslide victory in South Carolina Democratic primary, over 95% of
President Joe Biden won a landslide victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary, winning 96.2% of ballots cast. Democratic Representative...
Trump threatens to blacklist Haley donors
Former President Trump has threatened to blacklist any financial supporters of Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign. Writing on Truth Social last...
Senate deal on border and Ukraine at risk of collapse amid election
A bipartisan Senate deal pairing Ukraine aid with border enforcement measures is facing a potential collapse as Senate Republicans grow...
Black Pastors Pressure Biden to Call for a Cease-Fire in Gaza
Over 1,000 Black clergymen have issued a demand for President Biden to call for a cease-fire in Gaza. The church...
Ron Desantis ends his struggling presidential bid before New Hampshire and endorses
Florida Governor Ron Desantis has suspended his Republican presidential campaign and endorsed Donald Trump. The decision leaves only former President...
‘She’s a killer’: Trump eyes Rep. Elise Stefanik as a potential VP
According to Mar-a-lago members attending a dinner with former President Donald Trump in December, Representative Elise Stefanik was actively discussed...
‘Scared to death’: Local election officials on edge ahead of 2024 vote
While election officials across the nation are confident they can overcome foreign and domestic threats to run a secure election...
Trump wins New Hampshire primary as rematch with Biden appears increasingly likely
Former President Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire primary election over rival Nikki Haley, making a rematch with President...
Vivek Ramaswamy suspends his 2024 Republican presidential bid and endorses rival Donald
Following a fourth place finish in the Iowa Caucuses, Vivek Ramaswamy has suspended his presidential campaign and endorsed Donald Trump....
Trump solidifies lead in NH, Haley firmly in second, new poll shows
A new Suffolk University/NBC Boston/Boston Globe tracking poll shows Trump has a commanding lead in the Granite State with Nikki...
Iowa caucus key takeaways: Trump’s hold on Republicans is clear but second
Major news networks projected Donald Trump as the winner of the Iowa caucuses just a half hour after they began....
Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing Trump’s federal election interference case, appears to
Police have confirmed that they responded to false reports of a shooting at the home of the federal judge overseeing...
GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik won’t commit to certifying the 2024 election results
In an interview with Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press,” GOP Rep Elise Stefanik refused to commit to certifying the...
Special election announced to replace Ohio US Rep. Bill Johnson, who is
United States Representative Bill Johnson is set to resign from the House of Representatives to begin a new job as...
Muslim leaders expand campaign to abandon Biden in 2024 over Israel-Hamas war
Muslim leaders announced they are going national with an effort to discourage voters from re-electing President Joe Biden in 2024...
Desantis, Trump court Iowa’s evangelical voters, promising Christian-focused policy
Political scientists told ABC News that there has been a shift in the way candidates discuss Christianity during the 2024...
Maine’s top election official removes Trump from 2024 ballot
Maine’s Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, has removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot based on...
White House accuses Trump of “echoing” fascists with remarks on immigrants
The Biden administration denounced former President Donald Trump after he repeated remarks at a New Hampshire rally that undocumented immigrants...
Voter registration applications are up 65% since Pa. started automatic registration at
Pennsylvania has seen a 65% increase in voter registration applications since Governor Josh Shapiro implemented automatic voter registration at PennDOT...
Jury awards $148 million in damages to Georgia election workers over Rudy
Two former Georgia election workers, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, who sued Rudy Giuliani for spreading lies...
Kevin McCarthy resigning from Congress after being outside as House speaker
Kevin McCarthy announced that he will resign from Congress at the end of the month after being ousted as Speaker...
Young Voters See Abortion as Key Motivating Factor, Poll Finds
A recent poll by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics indicates that young voters still find abortion protections to be a...
Voting rights groups push for answers from Mississippi elections officials about ballot
Voting rights groups claim election officials in Mississippi’s largest county have failed to provide sufficient information about the problems which...
Vice President Harris breaks nearly 200-year-old record for Senate tiebreaker votes, casts
Vice President Harris cast her 32nd tie breaking vote in the Senate this week, breaking a nearly 200-year-old record. The...
Vivek Ramaswamy wants young voters to pass a civics test. These Americans
Many Black Americans and voting rights advocates are comparing Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamys’ proposal to institute a civics test...
Michigan Democrats expand voter registration and election safeguards in the swing state
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently signed several election related bills passed by Democrats in the crucial swing state. The new...
Republican George Santos becomes first House member expelled in more than 20
The House of Representatives voted to expel Republican Rep. George Santos last week; Santos is the first member expelled from...
Ken Buck blasts his party’s hardliners for ‘lying to America’
Republican Representative Ken Buck criticized his party harshly this weekend for continuing to propagate the lie that the 2020 election...
A Left Turn for Democrats in New Hampshire?
New Hampshire has historically been one of the most competitive states in the nation between Democrats and Republicans, but that...
One way Trump is fighting history: Election losers usually lose the rematch,
Current polling indicates a likely rematch in the next presidential election between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump,...
Ex-Fox News reporter sues network, saying he was fired for challenging lies
Jason Donner, a former Fox News Capitol Hill reporter and producer, has sued the network alleging they fired him for...
AIPAC vs. Progressives: Israel’s war in Gaza has set the stage for
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), one of the most powerful, best-funded lobbying groups in Washington, is planning a...
Facebook, Instagram will allow political ads that claim the 2020 election was
In a significant rollback of election-related content moderation, Meta will now allow political advertisements on its platform to question the...
Behind the Curtain: Trump allies pre-screen loyalists for unprecedented power grab
Former President Donald Trump’s allies have begun pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of individuals with the goal to centralize and...
RNC Chairwoman acknowledges GOP frustration after election losses
Ronna McDaniel, Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, acknowledged GOP frustration after a string of significant election losses in Virginia,...
Virginia Democrats sweep legislative elections after campaigning on abortion rights
After a campaign focused on protecting abortion rights, Virginia Democrats swept Tuesday’s legislative elections and retook full control of the...
Many in Mississippi see signs of change as Black voters reengage
Black voters, representing 40% of Mississippi’s overall population, have begun reengaging with the political process. Five Black candidates are running...
GOP Reps. Ken Buck and Kay Granger announce they won’t run for
Republican Representatives Ken Buck of Colorado and Kay Granger of Texas have announced they won’t seek re-election to the House...
Rep. George Santos survives vote to expel him from Congress
Representative George Santos, the New York Republican who admitted to lying about his background and has now been indicted on...
Biden’s Gaza Stance Spurs Stunning Drop in Arab American Support
Following the deadly October 7th attack by Hamas, President Joe Biden has promised his unfettered support to Israel and its...
Judge reinstates gag order on Trump in federal election subversion case
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan has reinstated the gag order she placed on former President Donald Trump earlier this month...
House Speaker Mike Johnson played a key role in efforts to overturn
The new House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, played a key role in efforts by former President Donald...
‘The man broke my heart’: Biden’s Arab-American boosters begin to leave his
Maysoon Zayid, a Palestinian American comedian, supported President Biden adamantly in the 2020 election; she starred in comedy events boosting...
Exclusive poll: Biden and Trump tie at 37% as RFK Jr. costs
One year before the next presidential election Joe Biden and Donald Trump are tied, each receiving 37% of the vote...
7 Republicans are running for House speaker. Only 2 of them voted
Since House Republicans dropped Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio as their nominee for Speaker of the House, 7 new candidates...
Judge issues partial gag order in Trump federal election interference case
United States District Judge Tanya Chutkan has issued a partial gag order forbidding former President Donald Trump from making statements...
Republican states swore off a voting tool. Now they’re scrambling to recreate
Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen recently launched a new program, the Alabama Voter Integrity Database, which will use federal...
Republican Jeff Landry will win Louisiana governor’s race, CNN projects
Republican Jeff Landry is projected to win the gubernatorial race in Louisiana. Under Louisiana’s jungle primary system, all candidates had...
New Hampshire Democrats weigh whether to cross over and vote in GOP
A new Political Action Committee called Primary Pivot is encouraging Democratic voters to temporarily switch their party affiliations to “undeclared”...
This week in politics: Louisiana redistricting case in court again- and more
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments last week in a case regarding the redrawing of Louisiana’s...
U.S. lawmakers question Meta and X over AI-generated political deepfakes ahead of
Google was the first big tech company to claim it would place new labels on deceptive AI-generated political advertisements that...
Newsom taps Laphonza Butler as interim pick to fill Sen. Feinstein’s seat
Governor Gavin Newsom announced Sunday that he plans to appoint Laphonza Butler to fill the Senate seat left vacant after...
Democrats, Republicans release dueling abortion ads in high-stakes Virginia elections
Democrats and Republicans have released opposing ads on abortion in Virginia, a hot button issue at the center of the...
Trump co-defendant Scott Hall pleads guilty in Georgia election case
Scott Hall, one of the 18 defendants charged with former President Donald Trump for allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential...
Ignoring 62% of voters, North Carolina Republicans Overhaul Elections Board with Senate
North Carolina Republicans recently sent Senate Bill 749 to Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s desk; the bill passed by a 26-17...
Taylor Swift told fans to register to vote- then Vote.org got 35K
Vote.org, a non-partisan and non-profit platform encouraging election participation, received a massive spike in voter registrations last Tuesday. The group...
Virginia governor urges Republicans to vote early despite Trump’s skepticism
Early voting for Virginia’s consequential 2023 election began Friday September 22nd, with every seat in the state’s senate and house...
State of Oregon sues Fox over 2020 election coverage
The state of Oregon and New York City’s pension fund have sued Fox Corporation alleging Fox harmed investors by allowing...
Lawsuit filed in Minnesota to boot Trump from the 2024 ballot
Voters in Minnesota have sued to remove Trump from the ballot in the upcoming presidential election arguing he is ineligible...
GOP-led Wisconsin Senate votes to remove chief elections official
In a 22-11 vote entirely along party lines, Republicans in Wisconsin voted to remove Meagan Wolfe, a non-partisan administrator of...
China suspected of using AI on social media to sway US voters,
Microsoft researchers claim to have found what they believe to be a network of fraudulent Chinese-controlled social media accounts attempting...
Virginia’s off-year election is next big test for reproductive rights
Multiple Virginia Democrats including Congresswoman Abigail Spangberger and state senate candidate Jason Ford are emphasizing the importance of the upcoming...
Biden and Trump are tied in the polls. Democrats have mixed feelings
14 months from election day, former-President Donald Trump is polling even with President Biden. Poll results are eliciting mixed feelings...
A 15-year-old shakes up New Hampshire with tough questions for Ron Desantis
Quinn Mitchell, a high school student and aspiring journalist, has made a habit of attending presidential campaign events in New...
Election workers have gotten death threats and warnings they will be lynched,
Over a dozen people in multiple states have been charged with threatening election workers by a Justice Department unit trying...
Small political parties in Maine hope to gain ground with new election
Harrison Kemp, Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Maine, hopes a new law will help his party grow within the...
North Carolina Governor vetoes election bill, sparking override showdown with GOP supermajority
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a Republican-backed election bill that would end a grace period for voting by mail...
Pa. Republicans slowly are learning to embrace mail-in ballots
Sam DeMarco, chairman of the Allegheny County Republican Committee, claims he’s had to fight countless conspiracy theories over the past...
Presidential candidate Ramaswamy calls for single-day, paper ballot elections
Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy recently proposed unique changes to election administration during a campaign event at a Pizza Ranch in...
Judge temporarily blocks law abolishing Harris County election administrator’s office; Texas AG
Under Texas Senate Bill 1750, Elections Administrator Clifford Tatum’s post was going to be eliminated effective September 1, until Judge...
Majority of Americans think Trump’s charges in Georgia election interference case are
A recent poll indicates 63% of Americans believe the charges approved by a grand jury in Georgia related to Trump’s...
Desantis’ debate memo urges him to defend Trump and take ‘a sledge-hammer’
A two page memo regarding the first Republican presidential primary debate written by a pro-Desantis super PAC was recently leaked...
Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system
Atlanta-area prosecutors are now in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to...
Mississippi GOP Gov. Tate Reeves will face Democrat Brandon Presley in the
Current Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves won the Republican nomination for a potential second term in office, he will now...
Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher
Ohio voters defeated a Republican-backed proposal that would have made it more challenging to change the state’s constitution. Had the...