The Big Beautiful Bill did not just cut Medicaid. It cut food stamps too. Since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed on July 4, 2025, SNAP participation has dropped by more than 3.5 million people. That is a 9 percent decline in eight months. And the biggest cuts...

Democrats have not won a statewide race in Texas since 1994. That streak may end in November. And President Trump may be the reason why. Today, May 26, Texas Republicans vote in a Senate primary runoff between four-term incumbent John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken...

The deadlines are arriving. Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4, 2025. The House passed it 218 to 214. The Senate passed it 51 to 50. The bill included nearly $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid over the next decade. Congress called it a budget...

Here is how it worked. Donald Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service in 2024 for $10 billion, claiming an IRS employee had illegally leaked his tax records. Rather than take the case to court and fight it on the merits, the Justice Department — now run by Trump's own...

Tuesday was a good night. Charles Booker is the Democratic nominee for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat. Keisha Lance Bottoms won the Georgia Democratic governor primary outright — no runoff, no waiting — and is now running to become the first Black woman elected...

At the end of 2025, enhanced federal subsidies that had been lowering health insurance premiums for millions of Americans expired. Congress did not renew them. The results are now visible in the data: roughly five million people have dropped their marketplace...

Georgia holds its primary elections tomorrow. Before a single ballot is counted, the race has already produced a number worth paying attention to: more than one million people voted early, breaking the previous record for any Georgia primary. Of those, 56.7 percent...

Mitch McConnell has held his Kentucky Senate seat since 1985. This fall, for the first time in four decades, his name will not be on the ballot. McConnell is retiring. The seat is open. And on Tuesday, Democrats in Kentucky will choose who they want to run for it. The...

Jerome Powell's term as chair of the Federal Reserve ends tomorrow. On Wednesday, the Senate confirmed his replacement by a vote of 54 to 45, the closest confirmation of a Fed chair in the modern era and the first to fall almost entirely along party lines. Kevin...

When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section had roughly 40 full-time attorneys. The section was created after Watergate specifically to investigate and prosecute corruption by public officials. It...

For five years, Alabama fought to keep a congressional map that federal courts ruled was racially discriminatory. It lost in court repeatedly. It defied the orders anyway. On Monday, with voters already casting absentee ballots for a primary eight days away, the...

Chedrick Greene is a firefighter from Saginaw, Michigan. On Tuesday, he won a state Senate seat in a district that Kamala Harris carried by less than one percentage point in 2024. He won it by 19. Greene's victory preserved the Democratic majority in the Michigan...

Last July, the Trump administration quietly rewrote the rules on who could be held in immigration detention. A memo from ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons declared that immigrants who had entered the country without authorization were ineligible for bond hearings, full...

The Justice Department has sued 29 states to obtain their voter registration files. It is using a federal immigration database to identify suspected noncitizens on those rolls. In state after state, the database keeps flagging eligible American citizens. Courts have...

The ink was barely dry on the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling when the scramble began. Within 48 hours of the 6-3 decision limiting the law's power to protect minority voters, the Republican governors of Alabama and Tennessee had called their legislatures...

The 75-day partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security ended Thursday when House Republicans passed the exact bill they had spent 10 weeks refusing to accept. The measure funds TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service through September. It does...

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Wednesday to sharply limit the Voting Rights Act's power to protect minority voters from discriminatory redistricting. By the time the ruling was an hour old, Florida Republicans had passed a new congressional map designed to flip four...

Republicans have spent months trying to pass the SAVE Act, the bill that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. It has stalled in the Senate. Trump renewed his call this week to eliminate the filibuster and force it...

The Department of Homeland Security has been partially shut down since mid-February. Ten weeks later, Republicans still cannot agree on how to reopen it. Congressional leaders returned to Washington Monday facing what one outlet called a "nightmare week," with a DHS...

The Justice Department dropped its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday. The probe, which was opened in January, had centered on cost overruns in a renovation of two historic Fed buildings in Washington. The project originally...

Virginia voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment on April 21, giving the Democratic-controlled state legislature authority to draw new congressional maps before the November midterms. The measure passed 50.7 percent to 49.3 percent, out of roughly 2.5...

More than 35 House Republicans have announced they will not seek reelection in 2026, compared to roughly 22 Democrats. The total number of House members from both parties not returning to their current seats is 55, the most since record keeping began in 1930,...

The Justice Department has demanded that Wayne County, Michigan turn over more than 865,000 ballots, ballot envelopes, and ballot receipts from the 2024 presidential election. The county has 14 days to comply or face potential court action. Wayne County is Michigan's...

Virginia is holding a special election today on a constitutional amendment that could reshape the fight for the House of Representatives in November. Polls close at 7 p.m. The question is simple on the surface: should Virginia temporarily allow its...

Analilia Mejia won New Jersey's 11th Congressional District special election on April 16, defeating Republican Joe Hathaway 60 percent to 40 percent. The AP called the race for Mejia minutes after polls closed. It was not close. Who Mejia Is Mejia is a progressive...

A Hennepin County judge has issued an arrest warrant for a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of pointing his government-issued firearm at two passengers in a car on a Minnesota highway. The officer, Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., faces two...

Donald Trump won between 55 and 59 percent of Catholic voters in 2024, the strongest performance by a presidential candidate with that group in decades. He is now feuding with the first American pope, posting what critics across the political spectrum are calling a...

A federal judge ruled Friday that the Pentagon cannot require journalists to get government approval before reporting on the U.S. military — delivering a significant First Amendment victory in a case that press freedom advocates had been watching closely since the...

It didn't make headlines. There was no press conference. The Trump administration's Justice Department simply filed paperwork to dismiss a lawsuit — one that had been protecting Alabama voters from an illegal purge program — and moved on. That was one of seven voting...

The security lines at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport stretched outside the building Monday morning. The wait times computer went down — it wasn't designed to track queues that long. The official guidance from the airport: allow four hours or more to...