Voters in states across the country head to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in local elections for candidates and on certain ballot initiatives, including whether to roll back so-called “democracy vouchers” in Seattle for publicly financed campaigns. The first-of-its-kind program came about in 2017 after Seattle voters approved a citizen-led initiative to boost election […]

The national average price for a gallon of regular gas on Tuesday is $3.163. The price marks an increase of three consecutive days at the pumps to begin August, according to AAA. Yet, despite the recent slight increase in average gas prices, for the most part, fuel costs have been steady this summer, as the […]

Texas Democrats grapple with legal, political, and personal pressure as they protest Republican efforts to rewrite the state’s congressional map before next year’s elections. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has threatened to remove 50 or so Democrats from the Texas House who traveled to Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York last weekend to deny a quorum for […]

President Donald Trump asked Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to call the state legislature in for a special session where they could approve new congressional maps that would redraw district lines in favor of Republicans. That began a partisan back-and-forth, with Democratic states such as California and New York threatening to redraw their maps in favor […]