Texas State Rep. James Talarico joins Sam Stein from an undisclosed location in Illinois—far from the statehouse floor, to explain why Democrats fled Texas. They discuss the Trump-backed redistricting ...

The rivalry tugging at the nation’s political balance is playing out in advance of the 2026 midterm elections.

With Texas Democrats walking out of the state and paralyzing the legislature from passing a Trump-endorsed mid-decade ...

Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton (D) said on Tuesday that “nothing will be off the table” in response to the plan by Texas Republicans to redraw their congressional boundaries in a way they hope ...

President Trump early Tuesday touted an appeals court ruling upholding Texas’s requirement that voters to provide a driver’s ...

Much of the information presented to the grand jury that indicted Ghislaine Maxwell for helping the late financier Jeffrey ...

As Texas Republicans move ahead with redistricting to protect or even expand the GOP’s slim majority in the US House, ...

Ohio Sen. Jon Husted was appointed to replace VP JD Vance, but he has to run again in 2026. He could face a challenge from ...

Governor Gregg Abbott ordered state troopers to find and arrest those Democrats who left the state. But lawmakers dismissing those threats as state authorities are beyond their jurisdiction. Abbott ...

The Republican-led House on Tuesday issued subpoenas to the Justice Department and high-ranking officials for files related ...

President Donald Trump defended Republican efforts to redraw Texas' congressional maps that would add five GOP seats, saying ...

Texas Democrats on Monday prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump ...