DEMOCRATS

The enduring goal has been to choose justices who “look like America.” What’s changed is their view of what America looks like.

The pending retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer could be just the kind of diversion the president would welcome.

Pepsi Co. doesn't deny it made the donation.

The Biden administration is pushing a bill to provide billions to address a computer chip shortage and fund research that supporters say will help the country compete with China on emerging technologies.

A group of millionaires that advocates for progressive tax policies is backing primary challenges to two centrist House Democrats.

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw sends mail-in ballot applications to voters after Texas banned the practice for local election officials

One told the lawmaker that she's an "embarrassment to the state of Georgia."

Senate Democrats have played defense for the last three Supreme Court vacancies.

Democrats said a new Supreme Court fight will help them as Republicans sought to preemptively cast Biden's unannounced nominee as radical.

"Obviously they have got a lot of other problems, let's just be honest," DeSantis said of the Biden administration. "This has not been a great show over the last year."

The GOP-backed voting law bans local election officials from the practice, but politicians can still do it.

Some recipients like new parents may qualify for additional funds during the 2022 tax season.

Growing misinformation online and on social media is creating an environment ripe for mistrust.

Growing misinformation online and on social media is creating an environment ripe for mistrust.

Manchin and Sinema have had no problem this year bucking their party on big votes.

Wealthy Democratic donors are planning to finance a primary effort against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema as she votes against key pieces of their party's agenda.

Breyer, the court’s oldest justice, has been under unprecedented pressure to retire while Democrats have narrow control of the Senate.

In politics and economics, too many predictions give disproportionate weight to the events of the recent past.

The most important parts of Biden’s stalled spending plan can still be salvaged. The key is making them simpler and more fiscally responsible.

Ron Klain is taking heat for the president’s sinking popularity, but the case against him is laughably weak.

With less than five weeks left in the primary election season, there is no shortage of political issues to debate. But most of the political conversation isn’t about the election.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she is running for reelection to her San Francisco-area congressional seat.

Florida Senate Education Committee approved the bill taking aim at critical race theory, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed.

Florida Senate Education Committee approved the bill taking aim at critical race theory, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed.

Republicans' powerful 2011 maps have limited the number of seats available for them to flip in this year's redistricting, but they have chopped up minority communities in some states.

A Delaware lawmaker who came under fire last year for using a racist and sexist slur to refer to sex workers was arrested on shoplifting charges Tuesday, just days after announcing that he was resigning for health reasons. Newark police said a warrant was issued Tuesday for Rep. Gerald Brady’s arrest on two counts of shoplifting, and that Brady, 65, turned himself in a few hours later. House Democrats announced last Friday that Brady was resigning effective Feb. 4, but they did not disclose that he was under criminal investigation.

After the failure of Democratic legislation, a voting-rights expert talks about options for safeguarding elections.

A new Commerce Department report highlighted the severity of a global shortage that has hobbled manufacturing and fueled inflation for more than a year, and that defies easy solutions.

Susan B. Anthony List secured $20 million in pledged financial contributions, five times more than it has had at the outset of an election year over its 30-year history,

THE INAUGURATION of Virginia’s 74th governor, Glenn Youngkin, was one for the history books.

President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic Monday calling a Fox News reporter a vulgarity after the journalist asked him a question about inflation. It was Biden's second hot mic moment in a week, both in response to questions from Fox News. (Jan. 24)

In some cases, even Democrats are surprisingly supportive of Republican capabilities.

The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to the proxy voting system that Democrats put in place in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The thing that continues to leap out at me is that all the things the Democrats now hate are the things they used when they were in power.

For three of the state’s most experienced politicians, bad news comes with the territory. But bad news in the critical stages of an election is another, more serious, kind of trouble.

Ignore the phony partisan rhetoric.

Mackenzie Salmon 'overreacts' to the biggest storylines from the AFC Divisional round games and looks ahead to the AFC title game.

The House committee’s conversations with Barr are further indication that several former Trump administration officials are cooperating with the panel even as others are fighting efforts to compel their testimony.

"We made significant progress in making it easier for folks to vote in the pandemic in 2020," Sen. Coons said. "Why would we be rolling that back?"

"We made significant progress in making it easier for folks to vote in the pandemic in 2020," Sen. Coons said. "Why would we be rolling that back?"

A BLOODBATH is coming in 2022.

After months of damaging internal bickering, the president needs to unite his party behind more realistic legislative goals and refocus voters’ attention on the GOP’s failings.

Seven large tech companies spent nearly $70 million lobbying the U.S. government in 2021 as policymakers from both parties weighed legislation to curtail their power and influence.

Some House Democrats have threatened to block President Joe Biden’s signature proposal if the broken-up plan drops relief for the $10,000 SALT deduction limit.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Black Americans “are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans,” sparking outrage online. His office said he misspoke and meant to say “other Americans."

A bedrock democratic institution, voting, continues to divide the two major U.S. political parties. States run by Republicans and states run by Democrats are increasingly diverging in their policies on registering to vote, voting in person and voting by mail. These state-by-state battles are a legacy of the 2020 presidential election and former President Donald Trump’s insistence, contrary to all evidence, that it was stolen from him and delivered to Joe Biden. Even the process of declaring whic

Biden has failed

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats "made progress” toward changing the Senate’s filibuster rules to advance voting legislation, despite the dramatic collapse of the package that his party says is central to protecting democracy.

The bill would have made Election Day a national holiday, among other changes.

The Senate Majority leader downplayed the risks of holding such a public demonstration of the rift within his caucus ahead of the midterm elections.

Linda Blackford: Sometimes gaffes have a way of stating the truth and they confirm many people’s suspicions about who is worthy of our democracy and who is not.

Democrats pushed ahead on a quest that was improbable at best, resulting in a fresh demonstration of impotence by a party and president who vowed to make government work. But those involved said they had no choice but to fight.

Cuellar's office said in a statement that he will "fully cooperate in any investigation."

Setting aside the awkward framing, the argument itself is flawed in a familiar way.

When asked about concerns among voters of color, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell implied African Americans are not Americans.

Two more House Democrats have announced they won't be seeking reelection in November.

The Brownsville Democrat said his resignation will be effective Jan. 31. That sets up a potential special election to finish his term, though whoever wins would only serve for a short time.

Money is pouring fast into the Texas governor’s race headlined by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Democrat Beto O’Rourke.

The latest fundraising figures in the governor’s race confirm what’s long been seen as the state of play: O’Rourke is a strong fundraiser, but Abbott, with over $65 million saved up, is on another level.

The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected a new map of the state’s 15 congressional districts as gerrymandered, sending the blueprint back for another try.

President Joe Biden is all but conceding defeat for this year on the Democrats' big elections and voting rights legislation.

Senate Democrats have defeated a bill by Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz that would have slammed sanctions on a Russian natural-gas pipeline to Germany.

Senate Democrats are trying to force a public showdown over their sweeping elections legislation.

A new poll finds Democrats increasingly view protecting abortion rights as a high priority for the government as Roe v.

In 2020, Democrats took their campaign efforts virtual. But they later admitted that the lack of in-person campaigning hurt them at the polls.

President Joe Biden is challenging senators to “stand against voter suppression,” urging them to change Senate rules in order to pass voting rights legislation that Republicans are blocking from debate and votes.

California Democrats have taken their first step toward creating a universal health care system.

The two-term Republican governor likely faces off against a Democratic challenger. Watch as we go behind the scenes.

The coronavirus pandemic is beginning to recede as a top priority in the minds of Americans.

Luther became nationally known at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 when she refused to shut down her Dallas salon in defiance of emergency orders. She was sentenced to a week in jail but was released after only a few days.

Just a year ago, many Republicans joined Democrats in reacting with horror to the Capitol insurrection.

President Joe Biden is forcefully accusing Donald Trump and his supporters of holding a “dagger at the throat of democracy” with his election lies that sparked last year’s deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.

The new year comes with a new election — and with familiar challenges to the way Texans vote and have their votes counted.

Around three dozen Democrats were trapped in the House gallery on Jan. 6 after the rest of their colleagues had been evacuated, ducking beneath their seats as supporters of former President Donald Trump laid siege.

The Republican senator from Texas said Democrats weaponized impeachment with former President Donald Trump, adding, “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”

Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is sounding a skeptical note about the prospects of easing the Senate’s filibuster rules to advance stalled voting legislation.

Iowa’s 2nd congressional district has the dubious distinction of having the second-most structurally deficient bridges in the country.

President Joe Biden, along with progressive and moderate Democrats, appears determined to return to the negotiating table with Sen. Joe Manchin.

Abbott vetoed legislation in June that would have helped shore up the Universal Service Fund, which supports telecommunications in rural Texas. He said it would have “imposed a new fee on millions of Texans.”

President Joe Biden appears determined to return to the negotiating table with Sen. Joe Manchin.

Democrats are trying to pick up the pieces after West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin effectively crushed President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey say they have tested positive for COVID-19.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has tested positive for COVID-19.

President Joe Biden has signed a bill raising the nation’s borrowing limit by $2.5 trillion, avoiding a potentially catastrophic default and resolving the turbulent issue until after the 2022 midterm elections.

The 8-1 decision came Wednesday from the all-Republican Court of Criminal Appeals.

It’s one of the most far-reaching of all the federal aid programs launched during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two Democrats kicked off their campaigns on Saturday in Bexar County.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the majority was straying from the court’s precedent to step in when state laws chill the exercise of constitutional rights while allowing other states to follow suit.

Chances are, winter weather won’t be as bad as it was last February. Chances are, Texas won’t have the electric blackouts that caused so much misery then. And chances are, whatever happens will have some influence on the 2022 elections.

The Senate has passed a fast-track plan for raising the debt limit.

Critics of the Chapter 313 corporate tax incentive program say it lacks accountability and is burdensome to taxpayers in the state.

The Republican Party of Texas announced Monday it had launched a new Local Government Committee to work with county parties on backing candidates for nonpartisan local offices.

Current state party leader Gilberto Hinojosa has indicated he isn’t going anywhere. But that hasn’t stopped open discussion about leadership of the party with several months until convention delegates vote on the position.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is asking the White House to cut back a big Medicare premium hike set to take effect in weeks and tied to a pricey Alzheimer’s drug whose benefits have been widely questioned.

It remains unclear whether Gov. Greg Abbott — the only official with the power to convene special sessions — will order state lawmakers back to Austin, or what issues he would include on the agenda.

This month’s elections may have offered a preview of the Spanish-language misinformation that could pose a growing threat to Democrats.

The actor said in a video Sunday that “political leadership” is a “path that I’m choosing not to take at this moment.”

Crockett is running for the seat vacated by Johnson, who announced Saturday that she would not seek reelection in the 30th Congressional District after serving nearly three decades in Congress. The seat is solidly Democratic.

O’Rourke has ground to make up after his own underwhelming performance with voters there in 2018 when he ran for U.S. Senate — and turning out more Latino voters has long been key to Democratic hopes statewide.

Ohio's final congressional map sprinted through the Legislature last week and was signed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine over the weekend, all in less than five days.