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GOP lawmakers call for redistricting after Supreme Court ruling
“What this means for the 2026 elections is uncertain. In many states, primaries are over or nearly so.
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“What this means for the 2026 elections is uncertain. In many states, primaries are over or nearly so.
Redistricting has already thrown a long shadow over the 2026 midterm elections, and we’re not done yet.
But it also puts both parties near parity in the monthslong arms race over redrawing congressional lines that has been a defining storyline of the 2026 campaign.
Throughout the 2026 primary season, watch for these updates from the CQ Roll Call campaign team on what you need to know for election day. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter?
Republicans began the push for mid-decade redistricting after President Donald Trump urged GOP-led states to redraw congressional lines in an effort to help the party retain its House majority in 2026.
That creates what might best be described as a known unknown for the 2026 campaign cycle – if names of incumbents who wouldn’t generally be vulnerable to primary challenges or general election scrutiny
The count: 87 percent That’s the share of the 1.2 million individual itemized contributions to Democratic congressional candidates in the 2026 cycle that came by way of digital fundraising platform
Collins brought in $825,000 and began 2026 with $2.3 million in the bank. Dooley, a first-time candidate, hauled in $1.1 million, finishing December with $2.1 million on hand.
Coming up Monday is the candidate filing deadline for the 2026 primaries in Arizona and New Jersey.
The issue that helped propel Republicans into the Senate majority and give them a governing trifecta in Washington now threatens to complicate their chances of holding on to both in 2026.
Governors to higher office in 2026,” Kevin Holst, the group’s executive director, said in a statement. “Even after being massively outspent, Lt. Gov.
Capitol’s Statuary Hall before President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026.
For example, while a few decades-old AUMFs were repealed last year through the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, the 2001 AUMF that laid the foundation for U.S. counterterrorism operations
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Throughout the 2026 State of the Union address, President Donald Trump paraded out gold-medal-winning Olympic heroes, announced awards for wounded warriors from multiple branches of the military and claimed
Coming up↵↵It's all about the kickoff of the 2026 primary season, with Tuesday's contests in Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas.
↵↵His four defeats were on a series of amendments to the fiscal 2026 Energy-Water appropriations bill, where his proposed cuts to four regional federal-state partnerships that fund infrastructure projects
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has placed the district on its list of targets for 2026.
↵↵Lawmakers included a slate of restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers in the fiscal 2026 appropriations law enacted late last month.
↵↵New targets: The DCCC added five Republican-held districts to its 2026 target list, reflecting the party's renewed confidence of winning the House majority this year.