In Texas special election, Democrats try to beat opponents – and voter confusion
Then the following month, voters will go to the polls again to select candidates for the November 2026 ballot, this time under the new district lines.
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Kennedy’s vaccine advisory panel upends shot recommendations
representing health insurers, announced earlier this week that it would continue to cover all immunizations that were recommended as of Sept. 1, 2025, and coverage would be available through the end of 2026
NRCC adds 3 newly redrawn Texas seats to its 2026 target list
The National Republican Congressional Committee on Thursday added three Texas districts to its list of targets for 2026, following changes to the state’s House map that make those seats much tougher for
Texas Republicans advance map targeting Democratic House seats
The Republican-led Texas Legislature moved forward Wednesday on a congressional redistricting plan intended to target Democrat-held seats, a mid-decade partisan gerrymandering push ahead of the 2026 midterm
These states could redraw their House maps before the 2026 elections
Gavin Newsom has spoken openly about the prospects of redrawing his state’s congressional lines in an effort to blunt the effects of the new Texas maps on the 2026 landscape.
Texas Republicans release draft map targeting several Democratic House seats
political science professor at Baylor University, said Trump’s role in driving the Texas redistricting "can’t be understated" as the administration seeks to shore up House Republicans’ majority ahead of 2026
House, Senate panels differ on future of hate crime grants
House and Senate appropriators are divided in their fiscal 2026 spending bills on whether to zero out funding for grants authorized under two laws focused on addressing hate crimes.
Battle over transgender troops reignites on Capitol Hill
The House intends to debate its fiscal 2026 NDAA in September, and the Senate may take up its own NDAA around the same time.
Deadly Texas flooding puts Trump’s past talk of eliminating FEMA to the test
The devastation in Texas could cause lawmakers, even some Republicans, to question the administration’s proposed cuts to FEMA spending in the administration’s fiscal 2026 budget.
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: OBBB vs. OBUB
Ritchie Torres says he’s unlikely to run for governor of New York in 2026. The Bronx Democrat had been weighing a primary challenge to Democratic Gov.
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: A speedy special election
Trump’s political team recently launched Kentucky MAGA, a super PAC with the aim of defeating Massie in the 2026 Republican primary.
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the races: Democrats get a reprieve
state Senate seat, an abundance of experienced candidates and a remark by a Republican incumbent that drew widespread scorn: Those are some of the factors fueling optimism among Iowa Democrats about the 2026
‘Eerie similarities’: Dems tea partied in 2010 say today’s GOP faces own reckoning
And that’s Election Day 2026." If there’s a difference between 2010 and now, Carney and Pomeroy said, it’s what power the parties are willing to sacrifice.
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the races: A Democratic boogeyman steps aside
Still, Musk was unlikely to have remained the center of attention in the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections.
With 2026 midterms top of mind, budget vote takes center stage
"Now that vulnerable Republicans are on the record voting for it, this betrayal of the American people will cost them their jobs in the midterms and Republicans the House Majority come 2026," Washington
Senate appropriators grill Kennedy on biomedical research
Appropriations Subcommittee, sometimes deflected and other times fought back as he outlined his vision for reducing and preventing chronic disease through his department’s $94 billion budget request for fiscal 2026
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: Open all night
that, along with Democratic overperformances Tuesday in two special House elections in Florida, has Democrats upbeat about their chances both in the 2025 off-year gubernatorial elections as well as the 2026
Adelita Grijalva announces bid for late father’s House seat in Arizona
Before he won a 12th term in November, he had already decided against running for reelection in 2026.
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: Spring fever
gate We’ve seen this movie before: Sometimes it takes more than one cycle to win a seat in Congress, and strategists in both parties are looking to candidates who performed well in 2024 to run again in 2026
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: House by the numbers
Vance said his focus will be to “fully enact the MAGA mandate and President Trump’s vision” and help build the necessary war chest to “keep and grow our Republican majorities in 2026.”