Citizens for Sanity reportedly spent six-figures on the AI generated campaign.

The race for Illinois governor has taken a new turn with the emergence of an independent candidate whose campaign could draw support from Republican nominee Darren Bailey, prompting Bailey's team to challenge his place on the ballot.

Over the years, Gabrielle Wyatt has heard directly from Black women nationally who described wealth as not only earnings, but about the conditions to live fully with financial freedom, abundance of choice, belonging, and thriving health. With the attack on Black economic and political power, Black women have been hit the hardest, disproportionately suffering from […]

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Apparently this is the worst thing they can say about the Democratic Senate candidate.

She lost to Colin Allred, who represented the same district as her in the past.

Americans, along with billions in taxable income, are flocking to Southern and Sun Belt states, accelerating a population and wealth shift away from several coastal blue-state strongholds, according to new IRS migration data.

The shifts are reshaping where economic and political power is concentrated ahead of the 2026 midterms, affecting housing markets, state economies, congressional…

Michael Bland has a message for political campaigns: Young Black men aren’t politically checked out. They’re just being ignored. “Black men are not politically absent, they are politically misread,” said Bland, executive director of Black Men Vote, a nonpartisan organization focused on mobilizing Black male voters. That assessment comes from new polling his organization commissioned, […]

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In a court filing, intervenors say the Trump administration is concealing true purpose of its case.

(RNS) — Black voters and other Democrats in red congressional districts should register as Republicans.

A Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana has amplified an already intense national redistricting battle.

Plaintiffs claim thousands of signatures on a petition to get the referendum on November’s ballot were invalid.

Virginia voters have approved a congressional redistricting plan plan that could help Democrats win up to four additional U.S. House seats in this year's midterm elections.

(RNS) — Their bridge building and organizing, they say, looks back to the Civil Rights Movement and ahead to November and beyond.

Darren Bailey is projected to win the Republican Illinois Governor nomination, setting up a rematch with Governor JB Pritzker in November.

Now that the Illinois Primary is over, the U.S. senate candidate from both parties will shift their focus to November's general election.

There is a crowded Democratic race in the 8th Congressional District.

One of the most important races that voters will decide Tuesday is the one for U.S. Senate. The three leading candidates are making one last push for support in a race that's going down to the wire.

In Illinois' 2nd Congressional District, 11 candidates are looking to fill the seat that's being left open by U.S. Representative Robin Kelly as she runs for U.S. Senate.

Former Illinois State Senator Darren Bailey is running it back in an attempt to win the Republican nomination for Illinois governor, four years after he was soundly beaten by Governor JB Pritzker.

The race for Cook County Board President has flooded the airwaves with campaign ads over the past few months.

The next Cook County assessor will be announced on Tuesday night, because there are no Republicans running for the position.

It turns out that the "endorsement" Rev. Jackson reportedly gave to Lt. Gov. Stratton before he passed away, that she released over the weekend, was not actually an endorsement.

Just days before the primary, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton announced that Rev. Jesse Jackson endorsed her before he died, stirring some last-minute campaign controversy.

Super PACs are spending millions on this race.

From the suburbs along Interstate 90 over to St. Charles, redistricting has resulted in a more diverse and Democratic 8th Congressional District.

Four Democratic women who want to become Illinois' next comptroller say it is one of the state's most important jobs, especially during a time when the Trump administration is cutting billions from Illinois.

Texan Algenita Davis headed into her state’s primaries Tuesday with a clear sense of what she wanted the outcome to be. “You want to make sure that you put people in office who are going to make the most difference — who are going to fight,” said Davis, 75, a retiree who lives in the […]

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Dozens of North Carolina A&T State University students recently walked more than 30 minutes to a nearby polling site, holding signs that said “Aggie Votes Matter,” “Use Your Vote or Lose Your Vote,” and other signs after they found out there was no early voting site on campus. In January, the North Carolina State Board […]

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As President _Donald Trump_ prepped for his second term, Tyler Hack was getting ready, too. Just before the inauguration, they launched a new political action committee called the _Christopher Street Project_. It aims to get pro-trans candidates elected to federal office — a “direct response” to the Trump administration’s “attacks on the trans community,” they said.

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Democrats’ counterprogramming to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address didn’t get nearly the attention as the big event, but the president himself took note. Trump was irate on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) as “lunatics” who should be deported. Omar and Tlaib […]