1+ hour, 54+ min ago  (1608+ words) Oklahoma's Republican leaders want voters to delete Medicaid expansion from the state constitution this summer'and they have a second ballot measure ready if they don't. The state's GOP-dominated House approved a referendum last month for the Aug. 25 ballot to repeal…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1782+ words) Progressive Judge Chris Taylor won Tuesday's election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a 60-40 margin against conservative Judge Maria Lazar, an outcome that expands the body's liberal majority from 4-3 to 5-2. Taylor's landslide victory over Lazar in the officially nonpartisan race…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1789+ words) Donald Trump endorsed former Fox News host Steve Hilton on Monday morning, a move that's likely to diminish the GOP's chances of locking Democrats out of the general election for governor of California. Democrats have spent months fearing that Hilton…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1693+ words) Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie has burnished his nonconformist reputation by loudly and frequently defying Donald Trump's wishes, but as he faces a Trump-backed primary challenger, he's now embracing'and emulating'the very man who'd like to see him booted from office. "Woke…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1815+ words) Businessman Hector Mujica announced Thursday that he would challenge Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez in Florida's 28th Congressional District, a Miami-area constituency Democrats hope to put in play if Donald Trump continues to alienate Latino voters. Mujica, a longtime Google employee who…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (1512+ words) A deep-pocketed Republican group is ostensibly trying to thwart state Sen. John Cavanaugh's chances of winning the Democratic primary in Nebraska's open 2nd Congressional District'a goal that seemingly runs counter to advice from an anonymous GOP strategy memo that circulated earlier…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1685+ words) Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita on Monday endorsed state Rep. Craig Haggard's primary campaign against Rep. Jim Baird, an 80-year-old Republican who is seeking reelection in the deeply conservative 4th Congressional District. While Rokita, who is Baird's immediate predecessor, did not…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1724+ words) The one and only Mark Sanford said Monday that he would seek the Republican nomination to once again represent South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, a surprise announcement he made just hours before candidate filing closed. "Our nation's debt is the issue…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1725+ words) Republican Rep. Sam Graves announced just days before Missouri's filing deadline that he wouldn't run for a 14th term, but his late-breaking retirement won't engender any ballot shenanigans'thanks, ironically, to Graves himself. That's because the state automatically reopens filing in any…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1748+ words) A Republican-backed ballot measure aimed at repealing Utah's anti-gerrymandering laws failed to qualify for the November ballot on Thursday after opponents successfully persuaded enough voters to withdraw their signatures. The development, which was first reported by the Deseret News, ends…...