How Virginia Democrats are coping with their redistricting defeat

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on February 24, 2026, in Williamsburg, Virginia. | Mike Kropf/Getty Images Virginia’s plan to redraw its congressional maps to create as many as four new Democratic seats is dead, struck down by the state supreme court. Its impact on Virginia politics, though, is…Read More

The Texas Senate candidates have two radically different visions of Christianity

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to supporters on May 26, 2026, in Plano, Texas. | Amanda McCoy/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Now that Ken Paxton, the conservative attorney general of Texas, has defeated incumbent John Cornyn for the Republican Senate nomination, we may see something unusual in modern American elections: a theological throwdown. In a closely…Read More

Despite Zero Fraud, Trump's MAGA Candidates Demand End Of Mail Voting

President Donald Trump and Oregon Republican Christine Drazan have something in common: both want to curtail mail-in voting.Drazan has served in both chambers of the Oregon state legislature and is now running in the Republican primary for governor.Oregon is one of eight states where all voting is conducted by mail. One hundred percent of ballots cast in Oregon in 2024…Read More