Political Pulse Alerts

California lawmakers unanimously passed SB 239 to expand criminal threat protections for county and city election officials plus local elected...

The Supreme Court’s five-justice majority blocked a challenge to Trump’s 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom by ruling that the National Trust for...

• Laura Loomer unleashed racist slurs against Black Democratic women with little media backlash.
• Marjorie Taylor Greene condemned Loomer’s rhetoric...

Virginia's Nov. 3 election puts Sen. Mark Warner's seat and all 11 House districts in play, with results directly affecting Senate balance and House...

House members returned Monday after five weeks away, with Speaker Johnson racing to pass a Senate-backed stopgap that would push the Sept. 30 funding...

A Circuit Court judge ruled Friday that Maryland's Democratic-led General Assembly violated the state constitution, Declaration of Rights, and...

Rep. Michael Rulli’s H.R. 10174, the federal GRANITE Act, would bar U.S. courts from enforcing foreign censorship judgments conflicting with the First...

Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden is urging a criminal referral to the DOJ after documents contradict HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claim that his...

Congress faces a three-front crunch this fall: securing the Pentagon's $1.5 trillion FY27 budget, passing supplemental funds for the Iran conflict,...

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper rejected the Trump administration’s “structural and financial disarray” argument as a “non-sequitur” for the...

A Michigan group has sued the state Supreme Court to override a 2-2 deadlock by the Board of State Canvassers that blocked its proof-of-citizenship...

The Supreme Court's preliminary approval of Trump's mail voting restrictions leaves procedures unchanged for now but restarts a compressed legal fight...

With a Republican-backed election overhaul stalled in Congress, states are turning to ballot measures to advance voter ID rules. Oklahoma became the...

Federal courts are pushing back on proof-of-citizenship requirements for voter registration.

• Ohio block: A U.S. judge blocked the state's new law...

A conservative report reveals $638.7 million flowed through tax-exempt voter-registration groups in 2024, up 30% from 2020.

• The network, rooted in a...

Trump's August 24 all-red map post revived pressure for the SAVE America Act, requiring citizenship proof and photo ID for federal elections, even as...

• Shapiro surges in key poll: NYT shows him at 55%-39% in Pennsylvania, with Dems ahead 51%-44% on the generic ballot in a state Trump barely won.
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Charleston County officials reported no polling place issues as of 1 p.m. Tuesday during the South Carolina GOP runoff between U.S. Sen. Darline Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph, with DOJ monitors present.

Shutdown odds on major platforms have fallen from 35% at July's end to the low-to-mid teens by mid-August, reflecting easing market sentiment as...

Chairman John Boozman plans to reconvene the Senate Agriculture Committee in mid-September 2026 to reconsider the Farm Bill.