When Senator Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly in July at age 71, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster filled the vacancy within two days — with Graham’s younger sister. Darline Graham, who had never held elected office, was sworn in on July 14 as the first...
A federal judge on Tuesday, August 11, barred the Trump administration from implementing the president’s mail voting executive order anywhere in the country, expanding a block that had previously applied only to the 23 states, plus the District of Columbia, that...
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...
