Fearing political violence, more states ban firearms at polling places
This month, New Mexico joined at least 21 other states that ban guns where people vote.
By Matt Vasilogambros, Stateline - March 22, 2024Elections
A couple thousand Ohio voters spent a blustery Saturday on a Dayton tarmac waiting to see Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. In front of bleachers done up with bunting, Trump promised the largest “deportation operation in American history” and compared immigrants to animals.
By Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal - March 18, 2024Hovde’s Orange County home is valued at more than $7 million
By Jesse Valentine - March 01, 2024Moreno, who owns a chain of car dealerships, has been found liable for wage theft.
By Jesse Valentine - February 23, 2024Ohio has seen a recent spike in young voter registration.
By Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal - February 22, 2024Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senate primary candidates met for their second of three debates at the University of Findlay Monday evening. Secretary of State Frank LaRose, state Sen. Matt Dolan, R-Chagrin Falls, and entrepreneur Bernie Moreno sat side-by-side on stage. The winner of the March 19 primary will face Democratic Ohio U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown in November.
By Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal - February 20, 2024Since 2019, Robinson has been accused of omitting key details from campaign finance reports.
By Jesse Valentine - February 16, 2024A Republican state representative wants to completely invalidate the votes of Arizonans in the upcoming presidential election as a bargaining tool to force Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs to agree to a Republican wishlist of election reforms.
By Caitlin Sievers, Arizona Mirror - February 15, 2024Dmitry Bam, vice dean and provost of UMaine Law School, discusses the possible ways the Colorado case could be decided
By Emma Davis, Maine Morning Star - February 09, 2024Hovde is reportedly prepared to spend eight figures of his own money on his campaign.
By Jesse Valentine - February 06, 2024With a primary win all but inevitable, President Joe Biden used his Sunday appearance in Las Vegas’s Historic Westside to rally his most vocal supporters in a battleground state that delivered for him four years ago.
By April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Current - February 05, 2024Arkansas could become the first Southern state to make abortion a constitutional right if voters approve the measure in November.
By Antoinette Grajeda, Arkansas Advocate - February 02, 2024GOP lawmakers approved a bill that would expand the rules to include the things Kari Lake and Abe Hamadeh claimed
By Caitlin Sievers, Arizona Mirror - February 01, 2024In Pennsylvania, wealthy businessman David McCormick says the program is too costly to sustain.
By Jesse Valentine - January 31, 2024A central tenet in Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s Senate campaign to unseat incumbent GOP U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is to attack his record on abortion rights.
By Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix - January 25, 2024The leader of the Maryland Senate said Republican appointees to the State Board of Elections will have to answer questions about involvement in the failed Jan. 6 insurrection following the recent arrest of a board member.
By Bryan P. Sears, Maryland Matters - January 24, 2024The United Auto Workers of America endorsed the re-election of President Joe Biden Wednesday, just months after he became the first sitting U.S. president to walk a picket line with striking autoworkers in Michigan.
By Ashley Murray, States Newsroom - January 24, 2024The three Ohio Republican candidates competing for their party’s U.S. Senate nomination met Monday in the race’s first televised statewide debate.
By Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal - January 22, 2024Gov. Gretchen Whitmer shaped her 2022 gubernatorial reelection campaign around securing abortion access and is now considered one of the leading national voices on the issue.
By Anna Liz Nichols, Michigan Advance - January 19, 2024Over the weekend, some Michigan Republican Party leaders announced they would consider a motion to allow precinct delegates to decide the party’s candidates for most local, state and federal races, rather than voters in primary elections.
By Kyle Davidson, Michigan Advance - January 10, 2024On Wednesday, the New Hampshire House passed a bill that would make registering to vote an online experience.
By Ethan DeWitt, New Hampshire Bulletin - January 04, 2024Republicans Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton have taken thousands of dollars in donations from chemical companies and their affiliated PACs.
By Jesse Valentine - December 08, 2023Last week, New Hampshire’s Supreme Court followed suit. In a 3-2 decision, the court found that the state’s courts also do not have the authority to overturn legislative maps accused of partisan gerrymandering.
By Ethan DeWitt, New Hampshire Bulletin - December 05, 2023Lawsuits based on false claims about voting equipment could delay millions of dollars in cost of living increases for retired teachers expected to arrive in January. The lawsuits also threaten to hold up state property tax cuts for homeowners — arguably Republicans’ signature policy achievement this year. Voters widely approved both policies this fall. Now Texas lawmakers are scrambling in hopes of preventing further delays
By Natalia Contreras - December 04, 2023President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is launching a new ad today with a focus on health care costs, part of a larger push by the campaign to persuade Americans that former President Trump would revisit his attempts to do away with the Affordable Care Act if (ACA) elected to a second term.
By Kim Lyons, Pennsylvania Capital-Star - November 30, 2023It’s Election Day. Results could serve as a barometer for key issues ahead of 2024’s presidential race. Abortion is directly on the ballot on Tuesday in Ohio and underscoring contests in several states.
By Elisha Brown - November 07, 2023It might not surprise Mississippians that The Cook Political Report, regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent elections experts, shifted their 2023 Mississippi governor’s race forecast on Monday in Democrat Brandon Presley’s direction.
By Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today - October 24, 2023'To me, this country is craving people that are problem solvers who will work and put the partisan politics aside,' Hertel said.
By Alyssa Burr - October 20, 2023Three days after announcing his candidacy, the Republican candidate received the legal maximum donation from a top tobacco lobbyist.
By Josh Israel - October 20, 2023Diggs accepted payments from anti-immigrant extremists and spoke at a pro-gun rally attended by militia groups.
By Josh Israel - October 20, 2023'The bottom line is that we're a purple state, and the Legislature should be very close to 50%,' Gov. Tony Evers says.
By Rebekah Sager - October 19, 2023