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August 19, 2025 2:01 PM ET Virginia’s off-year gubernatorial contest is tightening less than three months ahead of election day with Republican Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears within striking distance of her Democratic opponent, according to recent polling. Earle-Sears, the GOP nominee for governor, trails former Democratic Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger by seven percentage points, according

August 19, 2025 12:57 PM ET Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed a bill into law that allows students in his state to receive financial aid regardless of their immigration status. The legislation, which was sponsored by Democratic Illinois State Sens. Celina Villanueva and Javier L. Cervantes, will allow all students residing in Illinois

August 19, 2025 12:40 PM ET Democrat Virginia Rep. Suhas Subramanyam stated during a Monday town hall that illegal immigrants who are being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have not committed any crimes. Subramanyam distinguished between the Laken Riley Act, which mandates that federal immigration authorities detain illegal immigrants who committed theft-related crimes

August 19, 2025 11:48 AM ET Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu vowed on Tuesday to defy the Department of Justice (DOJ) by protecting criminal illegal immigrants in her city. The DOJ sent a letter to Wu and other Democratic mayors and governors across the U.S. stating that they must submit a plan that outlines their

August 19, 2025 11:42 AM ET Former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke is the preferred candidate among Democratic voters in the state’s 2026 Senate race, according to recent polling — despite having lost three major races within a span of four years. O’Rourke leads former Texas Democratic Rep. Colin Allred in a head-to-head matchup by

August 19, 2025 10:40 AM ET Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett blasted Texas Republicans’ newly redrawn district map as “racist” Monday night on Instagram — while in the same video she praised California Democrats’ gerrymander. Crockett’s comments come as runaway Texas Democrats return to Austin to vote on the Lone Star State’s proposed map, which

August 12, 2025 8:38 PM ET Texas House Democrats will end their weeks-long standoff Tuesday and return to Austin. Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives fled to Democratic strongholds like New York and Illinois to block a special session on redistricting, a move that could have given Republicans multiple new seats in the U.S.

August 12, 2025 5:41 PM ET A federal appeals court found Tuesday that banning child sex changes does not violate parents’ rights, days after another court came to the same conclusion. The full Eight Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an injunction blocking Arkansas’ ban on sex changes procedures for minors Tuesday in an 8-2 decision.

August 12, 2025 5:29 PM ET The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday it is banning preferred pronouns from employee’s email signatures, according to a memo obtained by the Daily Caller. The memo outlines the DOJ’s new guidance issued in accordance with President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring

August 12, 2025 3:33 PM ET For all the tedium of American political debates, at least we don’t have to defend air-conditioning. Not so in France, where “air-conditioning has become part of the political tug of war” amid a summer heat wave, writes The New York Times (NYT).  On the side of air-conditioning, and reason