As Texas Democrats flee the state to block a redrawn map, California Governor Gavin Newsom vows to "fight fire with fire," promising a special election to counter Republican moves. California is ...

In Texas and beyond, the party has adopted a newly combative posture following months of internal conversations. Now, they ...

By Richard Robbins A nation that lies to itself about itself is in its essentials untrustworthy; divorced from factual reality, it is a nation doomed to self-deceit and self-dealing, such as to render ...

Democrats concede there’s only so much they can do to keep Texas from redrawing its maps. But they want to encourage blue ...

If mid-cycle redistricting becomes a national, tit-for-tat strategy with both parties engaging in extreme gerrymandering, Republicans may ultimately stand to lose more seats than they will gain. For ...

Republican state lawmakers, like Democrats in Texas and California, have seen President Trump become unmoored from ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that judges are powerless to review partisan gerrymandering. But courts can still enforce the ...

Police responded to a report of a potential bomb threat at a suburban Chicago hotel Wednesday morning, and leaders of the ...

All politics are local, or is that loco? And nothing is more local and loco than the push by Donald Trump to essentially turn ...

State officials are using what’s called a “quo warranto” process to ask the Texas Supreme Court to remove Democrats from ...

Texas Democrats stand to be fined nearly $400,000 for fleeing the state in a gambit to stop Republican-led redistricting. And should they stay away during potential successive legislative sessions ...