It was her son’s eighth birthday, but Dayna Broadnax could not afford a present.
October 24, 2026Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is drawing big crowds as she campaigns for progressive Democrats before the Nov. 3 election
October 24, 2026The number of politically competitive U.S. House seats is shrinking rapidly
October 24, 2026Eighty-year-old Rick Russman of New Hampshire spent five decades as a Republican.
October 24, 2026Kamala Harris is returning to the campaign trail to help Democrats in some of the tightest US midterm races, putting the former vice president back before voters
October 24, 2026President Donald Trump's administration has taken steps to block the results of a midterm election in Alaska
October 23, 2026US consumer sentiment edged down to near a record low in October as rising prices because of the Middle East conflict soured households' views of the economy on the
October 23, 2026The U.S. Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton is heating up in Texas
October 23, 2026US President Donald Trump extolled an attack ad by Republican Vivek Ramaswamy against his Democratic rival in the close Ohio governor's race on Thursday, even as the
October 21, 2026House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is on track to become House speaker if his party sweeps to power in midterm elections and elects him to the job
October 22, 2026Public opposition to data centers may jolt the AI trade as the US midterm elections approach, with a strong Democratic showing potentially hampering the
October 22, 2026The November 3 midterm elections are quickly approaching after an electoral cycle shaped to an unusual degree by decisions of the US Supreme Court, a
October 22, 2026A possible merger between Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX and carmaker Tesla may face bigger obstacles from politics than from regulation,
October 22, 2026Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main opponent Gadi Eisenkot both oppose an independent Palestinian state, meaning
October 22, 2026What Republicans mean when they ask Abdul El-Sayed to ‘disavow’ the Muslim Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Democratic Party leaders are suing to block President Donald Trump’s administration from usurping states’ authority to administer elections
October 21, 2026Money or other material benefits are often not enough to override a voter’s preferences and partisanship.
October 21, 2026Trump’s approval rating hits a new low as midterms enter final stretch: CNN poll
October 21, 2026At President Donald Trump's urging, Republicans pursued an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting campaign ahead of November's midterm elections, redrawing dozens of US
October 21, 2026Texas Democrats' best chance at a statewide win in more than three decades is facing a wall of Republican money,
October 21, 2026US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would spend more than $400 million on Republican campaign efforts, while the New York Times reported that former New
October 20, 2026Senate Democrats' campaign spending group is wading into Mississippi's Senate race for the first time this cycle
October 20, 2026US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that there was not much a Democrat-led House of Representatives could do to stop the Trump administration's agenda.
October 20, 2026Poll chaplains and lay peacekeepers have maintained a calm presence over the last few election cycles
October 20, 2026Early voting has been underway for weeks ahead of the November
October 19, 2026Republicans confront anger from their own red-state voters ahead of midterms
October 18, 2026Maine Democrat Troy Jackson says he doesn't regret telling Susan Collins that she should “shut up” after the Republican senator suggested that a protester who interrupted their recent debate was one of his campaign’s backers
October 18, 2026It wouldn’t be easy to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar of her citizenship, legal experts say
October 17, 2026Democrats and aligned advocacy groups are hitting the airwaves with a flood of campaign ads on the Iran war as they seek to win back in the House and Senate
October 17, 2026GOP-controlled local boards restrict voting on Sundays and find other ways to make voting harder
October 16, 2026Few Republican members of Congress in swing districts may be more closely linked to President Donald Trump than Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
October 16, 2026The town of Shirley, Illinois, population 135, is an unlikely place for a campaign stop.
October 16, 2026President Donald Trump says he wants voters to pretend that he's on the ballot in this year’s midterm elections
October 16, 2026GOP allegations that voter fraud is rampant in the US may drive more Democrats – and fewer Republicans – to the polls in November.
October 15, 2026Just over half of major party candidates in the most competitive US Senate races told Reuters they will accept election results regardless of the outcome
October 15, 2026A decade after Republican Donald Trump peeled away working-class and union voters who had long been a cornerstone of Democratic support in Ohio,
October 14, 2026Kamala Harris is building out her final fall campaign blitz on behalf of other Democrats
October 14, 2026Iowa is grappling with water quality and cancer rates, bringing these issues to the forefront of state politics
October 14, 2026Former President Barack Obama is heading to Ohio to support Democratic candidates in the Senate and governor's races
October 13, 2026GOP senator said gas prices would decide the midterms. Now they’re threatening his reelection
October 13, 2026Federal agents have searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar
October 12, 2026‘Trump is dragging the party down’: GOP scrambles to stop steep midterm losses
October 12, 2026The United Auto Workers is working to regain political influence in closely contested Michigan
October 10, 2026Some 78% of Americans blame President Donald Trump's policies for rising prices that are outpacing their earnings,
October 09, 2026Fact check: Republicans’ deceptive ads on key Democratic candidates’ stances on gender surgery for children
October 09, 2026Democratic Party officials sued US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, seeking a court order blocking his administration from using
October 08, 2026‘The list of his failures goes on’: El-Sayed’s Obama criticism resurfaced ahead of campaign rally
October 08, 2026Republicans are facing anxiety as they enter the final month of the midterm campaign
October 07, 2026Top Democrat is investigating Jared Kushner’s financial investments after CNN report
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