Of the 552 men who’ve entered the program, 10 have won their release — the same...
The progressive group Democracy for America (DFA) is endorsing Texas state Sen. Royce West (D) in the Senate Democratic primary runoff against Mary Jennings Hegar (D), who is backed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) As Texas flashes signs that November's election could wind up the closest in decades, Republican John Cornyn and Democrat MJ Hegar clashed over the response to...
Texas voters stuck with two of the more moderate candidates in the race over some of the...
Many national Democrats support veteran MJ Hegar, but African American state Sen. Royce West is gaining energy from social protests.
Hegar will face Sen. John Cornyn in November.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Tuesday announced a series of House, Senate and state legislature endorsements for 2020, including Air Force veteran MJ Hegar, who is challenging Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).
Can Jeff Sessions survive his Alabama Senate runoff?
Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez’s candidacy is one of many that illustrate friction among Democrats between candidates who represent diverse communities and white candidates who may appeal more to moderates.
President Trump's former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is battling against the president's preferred candidate in Alabama's Senate race. The race is one of several set to be settled on Tuesday.
Some of the 12 candidates have clearer advantages than others, but it is an open question who will make a widely expected runoff. With a month until election day, the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Texas remains fraught with uncertainty about who is best positioned to qualify for an all-but-guaranteed runoff. The crowded field […]
How Democrats will make a run at Texas in 2020 is sharpening into focus
Voters in Alabama and Texas are casting their ballots in runoffs for House and Senate, and Maine voters are voting in the state’s primary.
Democrats will lock down their roster of Senate candidates, while Jeff Sessions' comeback bid faces a wall of Trump-fueled opposition in Alabama.
Democrats are close to winning the Texas House.
Democrats' plans to win Texas in 2020 sharpened into focus Wednesday amid the familiar uncertainty of whether the party's presidential nominee will work as hard in the giant red state in November as on Super Tuesday.
Moore, 72, a licensed professional counselor, told the editorial board that her platform...
Mike Bloomberg spent about $18 million per delegate earned. He amassed 31 pledged delegates before dropping his presidential bid.
The president's rambling Rose Garden speech hit Biden, China, and the Green New Deal.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) As Texas flashes signs that November's election could wind up the...
An arbitrary special education enrollment target, set by the Texas Education Agency, led...
Cornyn, seeking a fourth term, survived a spirited challenge by MJ Hegar in another big near-miss for the Democratic Party in the Lone Star State.
A new spot highlights the momentum generated by her first ad.
Cornyn, seeking a fourth term, survived a spirited challenge by MJ Hegar in another big near-miss for the Democratic Party in the Lone Star State.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) endorsed combat veteran MJ Hegar in the Texas Senate primary on Monday.
Senate Democrats campaign arm is set to make its first major investment in the general election fight between M.J. Hegar and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in Texas.
AUSTIN — A conservative group that has funneled millions of dollars into Republican...
With polling indicating voters still aren’t familiar enough with the candidates to have...
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Many Republican strategists are concerned about the growing disparity between Republican and Democratic women in Congress. Without institutional support to get Republican women through crowded primaries, outside groups are trying to lead the way.
Rep. Ruben Gallego will serve as national security chair of the California senator's 2020 presidential campaign.
Hickenlooper instantly becomes the highest-profile politician in the crowded field of Democrats vying for the right to take on Gardner.
Most of the Democratic presidential hopefuls on tonight’s debate stage will be fairly familiar to the general public, but one candidate will be getting his first crack at national exposure: Montana Governor Steve Bullock.
If it’s Tuesday ... voters are voting! Republicans could be headed for a primary runoff after today’s three-way primary contest in the Mississippi gubernatorial race.
Republican Congressman Ralph Abraham is looking to knock off incumbent Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards in the conservative-leaning state.
The Working Families Party had been considering endorsing Harris but she is now out of the running after her campaign said she did not have time to participate in a Q&A by its tight deadline
Billionaire Tom Steyer continues to pour money into his presidential campaign through Facebook ads, but South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg is nipping at his heels over the past week.
Buttigieg campaign parts ways with its N.H. state director.
Kamala Harris gets endorsement from Iowa's Asian-Latino Coalition
The campaign has reserved at least $192,000 of ad spending across the state and is the first Iowa ad from a presidential hopeful polling toward the front of the pack.
Mary Jennings Hegar (born c. 1976) is an Air Force veteran, one of Foreign Policy magazines 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013 and one of Newsweeks 125 Women of Impact of 2012, and the author of Shoot Like a Girl, a memoir released in March 2017 from Penguin Berkley Caliber.
President Trump made a surprise call into campaign event to energize women voters, saying "we're doing great with women" despite polls showing support among key group slipping.
Recent retirements are part of a larger picture, one of a Texas delegation that's been going through a massive shift in the past two election cycles. And that shift has been at the direct expense of House Republicans.
The Republican Governors Association has been the biggest advertiser so far in this gubernatorial race, spending more than $2.5 million over the airwaves.
Pompeo hasn't slammed the door shut on a possible Senate bid.
Booker endorsement demonstrates tough balancing act for candidates.
Sen. Michael Bennet will be receiving the official endorsement for president from Gary Hart tomorrow morning ahead of the New Hampshire Democratic State Party Convention in Manchester, NH, his campaign tells NBC News.
A bid by Kennedy would set up a generational battle in the state's Democratic primary against the incumbent Markey.
In a new mash-up video published this morning on “Team Joe” Twitter account, the Biden campaign starts off by highlighting Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris’ inability to answer questions about their healthcare plans and how much they would cost.
Elizabeth Warren's heritage flap re-emerges ahead of a native American forum in Iowa Monday.
Steyer spent more last week on Facebook than six top Democratic presidential candidates combined.
Pete Buttigieg’s campaign has launched ads on streaming music services just as college students return for fall classes.
As Congress returns from summer recess, here are the biggest political and campaign stories from the week.
MJ Hegar isn’t the odds-on favorite to win her race. But it's not the first time she has faced a closed door and prevailed.
Former South Carolina congressman and Gov. Mark Sanford revealed Monday that he is headed to New Hampshire as he ponders a primary challenge to President Trump.
Ahead of the 11 year anniversary of then candidate Barack Obama asking then Sen. Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate Friday, the Biden campaign has released a one-minute video on Twitter to commemorate the moment.
The International Association of Firefightersis began their first paid media program on Joe Biden's behalf with a full page ad running in Friday's New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper.
Buttigieg's comments on "Meet the Press" evoke his push for a generational change in the White House.
While the voters are virtually split on the issue (46 percent say they approve while 49 percent say they disapprove), Trump's approval rating on the economy is tied for the lowest mark in more than a year in Quinnipiac's data.
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Joe Kennedy, the son of Bobby who was marked as a future statewide candidate in Massachusetts from the instant he claimed a House seat in 1986, just took himself out of the running for his Uncle Ted’s vacant Senate seat.
“You can’t build a roof without a foundation.”
Republican officials in Illinois who supported marriage equality won their primaries across the board this week
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Since Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee won his election in 2018, the...
Republicans are running short of time, money and options to stop Democrats from winning a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate, and with them full control of Congress, in an election that is now only two weeks away.
Cornyn aides have lined up a long list of appearances at festivals, parades and other...
Trump is wounded and his MAGA candidates took a beating in the midterms. This is the time for the president to pass the torch to the next generation of liberals.
The day after his “Silent Majority” speech on Nov. 3, 1969, calling on Americans to stand with him for peace with honor in Vietnam, Richard Nixon’s GOP captured the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey. By December, Nixon had reached 68 percent approval in the Gallup Poll, though, a year earlier, he had won but […]
Court papers allege that he abused his ex-wife and one of their children. But will it stop his Senate candidacy?
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is running for the Senate, and Republicans are generally supportive. But they may want to be careful what they wish for.
The campaigns of Donald Trump, Corey Stewart and Dave Brat provide some insight into the politics of culture and identity.
A completely reasonable question.
Betsy Johnson, a pro-gun, woke-bashing former Democrat is waging a strong bid for governor.
In 2004, Bush took Florida by 381,000 votes and Obama took it in 2008 by 236,000 votes- a swing of over 617,000 votes. Romney has some work cut out for him in Florida. The bulk of the Obama victory...
Jewish former Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine is running for Florida governor as a Democrat.
Davis was one of six convention headliners announced by the RNC this morning.
Missouri's Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley were projected to easily defeat their primary opponents Tuesday night to set up a key race in the battle for control of the U.S. Senate this November.
Political observers called it months ago, but Tuesday’s midterm elections made it official: The Republicans have captured control of the U.S. Senate.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges, but the man left the courthouse...
‘He has no principles. None,’ president’s sister says of him
After her big loss to Bill Cassidy this week, Louisiana senate Mary Landrieu may not be returning to the Senate next year, but some think her political career might not yet be over. Two statewide vacancies in the next year could leave an opening for ...
Following an announcement made Wednesday that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee had been elected to the Country Music Association's philanthropic CMA Foundation board of directors, the Republican pundit has now resigned.
Is reality blurry or do we just see it that way? In the early days of quantum mechanics, Einstein and other scientists argued that our theories just weren't strong enough. But in this one case, Einstein was wrong and an experiment fundamentally changed how we view reality.
Durr, who says he spent no more than $10,000 on his campaign, has stunned the NJ Senate president.
Voters in four states Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut are choosing their nominees for November as the primary season enters the final stretch and the matchups for the U.S. Senate are nearly set.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is struggling against Democrat Michael Franken in a recent Des Moines Register poll. But is the hype warranted?
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The Justice Department plans to file a lawsuit against Texas over its restrictive...
[...] the focus on both conventions is on the new generation of Hispanic political stars, ranging from Democratic convention keynote speaker Julian Castro, the 37-year-old mayor of San Antonio, to a pair of 41-year-old Republicans, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Senate nominee Ted Cruz. A star California political consultant for more than 14 years, Barajas - born in Echo Park and raised in an immigrant family - has been the voice of the California Republican Party, the gubernatorial campaig
Checking in with the residents of Cleveland
The ruling Friday essentially puts a stop to all investigations as long as parents claim...
AUSTIN — Houston police officers Rodney Johnson and Michael Bozeman helped form the thin blue line that separates law-abiding citizens from chaos, and both took bullets for that cause. Johnson's multiple gunshot wounds to the back of his head, fired in a patrol car by a man he'd arrested, ended his life. "The recipients of these awards are the finest our state has to offer," Perry said from the Texas Senate chamber on the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Perry bega
The benefits of connecting to the outside world are at least worth examining, especially...
A Texas lawmaker has vowed to release surveillance video of police responding to the Uvalde shooting, despite guidance from the local DA that it remain under wraps.
On April 20th, the Texas Senate passed Texas Senate Bill 18 (SB 18), which will eliminate tenure for professors at public colleges and universities in the state hired after January 1, 2024.
The bill would have otherwise been on its way to the governors desk, but it will now...
Houstonians have been breathing high, unhealthy levels of toxic industrial emissions for years because Texas has failed to set standards that residents of most states take for granted. [...] the same state legislators who consistently vote against tougher air quality standards are eager to take away local governments' tools. White has proposed a benzene reduction plan that begins with voluntary negotiations with seven area plants that produce high levels of the pollutant, six of which are in n
Texas Seat Held By Democrats for Seven Generations Flips to Underdog Republican
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Universal pre-k has been a non-starter for the GOP-led Legislature, but Republican speaker pushes to expand existing program.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a pair of Texas abortion regulations,...
An oil executive that supported Robert "Beto" O'Rourke's 2018 U.S. Senate bid also helped produce a documentary of O'Rourke's campaign.
In the first of three debates, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz confronted challenger Democrat Beto O'Rourke Friday night in Dallas. They'll face off again Sept. 30 in Houston and Oct. 16 in San Antonio.
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke announced Thursday that he is joining the race for president, calling this America's "defining moment" to push for change.
The lawsuit asks the court to bar enforcement of specific provisions that limit polling assistance and voter eligibility.
State Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, said he has decided to scrap his plan to reduce the states portion of sales tax from6.25% to 5.75%.
With CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere higher than they've been in the last 1 million years; with the past January worldwide being the warmest ever; and with a number of crucial feedback mechanisms such as the melting of the Arctic, the Alaska permafrost and the Greenland glacier already increasing many times faster than predicted only 10 years ago, it is time to go into an emergency mode of energy conservation and alternative sources. Texas Senate Bill 860, introduced by state Sen. Rodney
The Texas Senate and House adjourned Monday and will not resume until Wednesday in memory of the seven astronauts killed in the space shuttle Columbia explosion. The space shuttle Columbia and its crew obviously served as a symbol of freedom and cooperation for so many different countries and was dedicated to providing a better life for science and exploration for future generations. Both chambers passed resolutions mourning the loss of the shuttle and its crew and stating their support and co
The Tea Party has picked U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz of Texas as their next project.
Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission meeting dates, agendas, and transcripts
Two more women have come forward with harassment allegations against Texas state Sen. Carlos Uresti, who was convicted on felony charges last week and faces a bribery trial in May.
A Texas church member testified to a state Senate committee on Monday that the government would be guilty of a “hate crime” if he was forced to recognize that LGBT people had an equal right to marriage. On Monday, the Senate committee on State Affairs heard testimony in favor of Senate Bill 2065, which would allow religious organizations and their employees to refuse to provide services related to same-sex marriages if it violated their “sincerely …
It was signed into law in 2011 by then Texas Governor Rick Perry and has been the subject of legal battles since then.
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