President Trump has spent the past several weeks publicly pressuring Senate Majority Leader John Thune to cancel the Senate’s August recess and pass the SAVE America Act, the election overhaul bill Trump has called his top legislative priority of 2026....
Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth won the Republican primary for governor on Tuesday, August 11, defeating both Mike Lindell, the former MyPillow CEO endorsed by President Trump, and Kendall Qualls, the candidate endorsed by the state Republican Party at its...
Voters in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Vermont go to the polls on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, in the next round of primaries ahead of the November 3 midterm elections. Minnesota carries the day’s heaviest card: an open governor’s race created by...
The Senate voted 50 to 49 in the early hours of Saturday, August 8, 2026, to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General of the United States. Every Democrat voted no, joined by two Republicans: Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Senator Mitch McConnell...
In December 2025, the Supreme Court refused to let the Trump administration proceed with its National Guard deployment in the Chicago area while litigation continued. Eight days later, Trump ended the Los Angeles deployment and abandoned attempted deployments in...
