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 […]

Former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris will each try to tell their side of the 2024 campaign story in forthcoming books. The question is whether they will have much interesting to say if they try to keep their stories straight. Harris will get the first word when 107 Days comes out in September. […]

Moms for Liberty, the parents’ rights organization which rose to prominence for championing more parental involvement in education, was labeled a hate group by a state committee responsible for training police officers. The Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee classified Moms for Liberty as a “hate group” in its training materials, putting them in the same […]