Tag: Elections
Alabama town’s first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, wins election
NEWBERN, Ala. – The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town overwhelmingly won election this week, four years after white residents locked him...
Georgia’s Fulton County fined $10,000 a day for not appointing Republican election board nominees
ATLANTA – The government of Georgia’s most populous county must pay $10,000 a day until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board...
A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
“I’ve spent most of my career researching right-wing media and sounding the alarms about the collapse of our old information environment,” Ellie Langford, the...
Judge rules Utah must redraw its congressional map for 2026 elections
The Utah Legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state’s congressional boundaries after a judge ruled Monday that the Republican-controlled body circumvented safeguards put...
Texas lawmakers to consider restoring limits on late voter registration changes
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Trump ran on a promise of revenge. He’s making good on it
Donald Trump ran on a promise to use the powers of the government for revenge against those he believed wronged him. He now appears...
Texas Gov. Abbott vows to approve GOP-leaning congressional voting map
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday promised to quickly sign off on a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map gerrymandered to help...
Trump was once a Republican Party outsider. Now it’s his GOP and the MAGA faithful are in the lead
ATLANTA – Amy Kremer was an early tea party leader who supported Donald Trump for president in 2016. She ran for Congress from Georgia...
Texas redistricting fight shakes up battle lines for both parties in key US Senate race
HOUSTON – Just as Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred was holding a town hall near the Mexican border as part of an “unrig...
Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding from 34 cities and counties over ‘sanctuary’ policies
A judge ruled late Friday the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because...
