By refusing to intervene with the 2026 election around the corner, the Supreme Court empowers states to pass skewed maps with no real accountability to voters, the Statesman Editorial Board writes.

With its latest gerrymandering decision, the Court is creating a political system primed for distortion and deeper division.

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Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III, senior pastor of the 13,000-member Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, who ...

Six Republicans and three Democrats have already filed for Harris County judge, in addition to one independent candidate who is actively campaigning on social media.

Texas will use its new, GOP-friendly congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections as the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily ...

Not once, in the four and a half years I learned at home, did anyone from the state come to assess what sort of education I was receiving, or even just check on me.

A federal judge said Tuesday that the Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking ...

President Trump’s promised executive order that would kneecap state laws aimed at regulating artificial intelligence is likely bound for the courts. The president announced his plan Monday to create ...

The latest poll from The Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago asked its ...

As Republicans fear Trump’s effort to rig the midterms is backfiring, Rep. Jamie Raskin talks about the need to counter GOP ...