Democrats will need to sort through a pileup of potential candidates who see an opportunity to harness backlash to the Trump ...

Let me translate what Representative Jasmine Crockett couldn't say publicly: The Democratic Party just told one of its most ...

Beto O’Rourke speaks at a reception kickoff event at the Texas Democratic Convention in El Paso, Texas, on June 6, 2024. Credit: Justin Hamel for The Texas Tribune ...

With the legislative session over, Texas Democrats are turning their attention to the 2026 elections for the state’s most powerful offices — with the hope that midterm backlash against the Trump ...

"The state law does not allow us to have a closed primary," said George. "So we're just trying to get the court to tell us that the Republican Party of Texas has the right to have closed primaries and ...

The run in Arizona by Deja Foxx, 25, against Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of a longtime lawmaker who died in office this ...

As Democrats search to counter Trump it may not be Barack Obama, the party's most popular figure, that they should turn to, ...

There's a new top Democrat on the influential House Oversight Committee. Rep. Robert Garcia of California won the job in a ...

Federal prosecutors say the money was used to fly on a private jet, buy real estate and help operate a brewery.

It’s judgment day in the Senate. Republicans are hoping to have a final vote soon on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, their ...

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