Despite pressure from within his own party, Robert Howden says Texas will defend its open primary system — and that any effort to close it belongs in the Legislature, not the courts.
The independent candidate for governor argues Tennessee’s one-party dominance is fueled by historically low turnout—and she thinks the voters sitting on the sidelines could upend the conventional wisdom.
The Trump administration's new executive order on birthright citizenship aims to work within Supreme Court limits by denying citizenship to children born to non-citizen parents in specific categories, but experts warn it could create constitutional conflicts.
California legislators introduce two constitutional amendments to remove party control from elections: one making the secretary of state a nonpartisan office, another transferring ballot language authority to a nonpartisan body.
Over 68,000 Wisconsin Democratic primary voters cast ballots for candidates who dropped out before the election, highlighting how ranked choice voting could prevent votes from being wasted when candidates exit the race.
Joe and Heather Manchin are betting that a handful of independent victories in 2026 could break the two-party grip on Congress—and they’re building the organization to make it happen.
California's Republican gubernatorial nominee Steve Hilton says AI leaders like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have damaged public trust in their industry and argues the state must ease opposition to data center construction to compete with Texas and Ohio.
Nancy Pelosi detailed her private conversation with President Biden before he withdrew from the 2024 race, saying she questioned his polling and campaign strategy but that accounts of the meeting "did not really happen" as reported.
An independent candidate with little money and no party machine is betting that the closest House district in America is ready to break from the same Republican-Democratic rematch.
Assemblymembers Josh Hoover and Natasha Johnson introduce constitutional amendment to make the secretary of state's office nonpartisan, addressing concerns about conflicts of interest in election administration.
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