A state lawmaker has refused to leave the Texas Capitol as Republicans use police to prevent Democrats from fleeing the state over a redistricting vote.

Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, who represents much of the majority-Black, working-class neighborhood that surrounds the Obama ...

DC residents respond to an ATF/Secret Service/MPD/FBI arrest in front of the Union Market Trader Joes earlier tonight: ...

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) said that she was not accusing the Israeli government of committing genocide in Gaza, despite saying at an event last week there was “genocide and ...

Declining homicide and assault rates in DC don’t mean residents feel as safe as they want to be. Democrats have to do a ...

Texas state Rep. Mihaela Plesa says Democrats' two-week walkout created a "nationwide movement," but she's ready to make a legal case against redistricting.

Fast tracking a vote that was expected to happen in October, utility regulators will vote tomorrow on a power plant for ...

President Donald Trump launched his second-term assault on mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines on Aug. 18, firing ...

Challenger Lashunda Scales warns voters of potential state takeover as the Randall Woodfin campaign highlights crime reduction and increased police recruitment.

Former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke is the preferred candidate among Democratic voters in the state’s 2026 Senate race ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that he doesn’t think President Donald Trump’s desire to ban voting by mail applies to Florida ...

Proponents say Dearborn council's current structure of all at-large seats has led to disproportionate representation on the ...