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8 takeaways from the Texas, North Carolina, Arkansas primaries
Voters in Texas, Arkansas and North Carolina went to the polls on Tuesday, officially kicking off the 2026 midterm elections.
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Voters in Texas, Arkansas and North Carolina went to the polls on Tuesday, officially kicking off the 2026 midterm elections.
there have been 10 homicides, five sexual abuse incidents, 131 assaults with a dangerous weapon, 146 robberies, 99 burglaries, 327 motor vehicle thefts, 569 thefts from auto and 1,316 "other" thefts in 2026
↵↵"This is perfect for 2026, because I'm running," she says in the clip.
was nearly rejected on the floor, only surviving when three GOP dissenters flipped their votes at the last minute after Johnson shortened the duration of the ban to Dec. 31, 2025, instead of March 31, 2026
↵↵Grijalva plans to attend the future orientation that will be offered to the class elected in 2026. In the meantime, she has been learning on the job.Â
President Donald Trump's litany of comments about the midterm elections are noteworthy, particularly when taken as a whole, Gonzales writes.
The 2025 results tell us something important about presidential job performance, voter turnout and partisan enthusiasm.
affordability, and nobody has really walked through what it's going to mean for those 8 million people," Wyden said, referring to an early estimate of how many people have signed up for ACA coverage for 2026
↵↵As the fiscal 2026 bill edges closer to enactment, one of the few last-minute controversies shadowing it concerns whether the measure goes far enough to restrict military aircraft operations in close
Democratic state legislators have also taken steps toward drawing a new congressional map for the 2026 elections, mirroring mid-decade redistricting efforts in states across the country.Â
↵↵A DOJ account replied: "Not a chance, Gavin — we will stop your DEI districts for 2026."
↵↵And Alito wrote that he would not delay the decision by writing a detailed response to the dissent because "Texas needs certainty on which map will govern the 2026 midterm elections."
↵↵The National Republican Congressional Committee had already been using Mamdani as a new bogeyman as part of its effort to maintain the House majority by expanding the party's map for 2026.
an injunction is obvious: campaigning had already begun, candidates had already gathered signatures and filed applications to appear on the ballot under the 2025 map, and early voting for the March 3, 2026
The filing deadline to compete in the 2026 primary is Dec. 8, while early voting in the runoff will be held from Jan. 21-27.
He, nor any other Democrat, has a path to victory in ME-02 and Republicans will flip this seat red in 2026," Maureen O'Toole, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in
"I do actually wonder if Trump will be even more of a drag in 2026 —the reason is that perceptions of the economy were better eight years ago than they are now."
But Martin, a former chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party who took over as national party chair in February, acknowledged that a 2026 wave election may not include winning the Senate majority
move sparked a rush of mid-decade redistricting efforts in multiple states as both parties seek an advantage in the closely divided House, where Republicans have a threadbare majority to defend in the 2026
One of the group’s top issues is redistricting, especially now that some states are moving to redraw congressional lines before the next census in hopes of providing partisan advantages in the 2026 midterms