Early voting begins Tuesday for Texas’s 2026 primary elections, with eyes on the Lone Star State’s competitive Senate primary for the seat of longtime incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX ). Texas has candidates all across the state facing competitive primaries, especially due to the mid-decade redistricting effort backed by President Donald Trump that catapulted redistricting […]

Famed civil rights activist and longtime black political leader Rev. Jesse Jackson died on Tuesday morning, at the age of 84 following a longtime battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Jackson was hospitalized in November and later diagnosed with a degenerative condition called progressive supranuclear palsy, CBS News reported. His passing was announced in a statement posted […]

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a historical exhibit at the President’s House site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, recognizing the story of nine slaves of former President George Washington, who resided in the city between 1790 and 1797, when it was the capital of the United States. The “Freedom and Slavery in the […]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had a rough go of things at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend.  Making her first appearance at Europe’s preeminent security summit since being elected to Congress in 2018, Ocasio-Cortez participated in multiple panel discussions, in what was widely considered to be a strategic effort to increase her political profile. […]