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How To Survive a Republican Power Grab

This was not how Greg Casar planned to spend his recess. On a Thursday afternoon in mid-August, as the clock ticked down on the first special session of the Texas legislature, the 36-year-old second-term Democratic congressman was sitting at the head of a small wooden conference table, commiserating with the legislator on the other end […]


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How to Survive a Republican Power Grab

This was not how Greg Casar planned to spend his recess. On a Thursday afternoon in mid-August, as the clock ticked down on the first special session of the Texas legislature, the 36-year-old second-term Democratic congressman was sitting at the head of a small wooden conference table, commiserating with the legislator on the other end […]


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Meet the Ohio Lobbyist Running Against Lobbyists

Former Ohio state Sen. Kevin Coughlin—a self-described “husband, father, [and] small business owner”—is running to be the Republican nominee for Ohio’s 13th Congressional seat in the 2026 midterms. He promises to “put Ohio workers and their families first,” according to his campaign website. “Never politicians, lobbyists, or special interests.” What Coughlin doesn’t say is that […]


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Texas House Republicans Just Helped Trump Rig the Midterm Elections

After weeks of delays, protests, and threats of arrests, the Republican-led Texas House on Wednesday passed a highly contentious redistricting plan that could give the GOP five additional seats in the US House. “This is racial gerrymandering at its worst. It is something that Jim Crow would be proud of, but it is something that […]


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How Democrats Plan to Battle the GOP’s Redistricting Power Grab

For years, Republicans have sought to consolidate power at the state and federal level by controlling the redistricting process through which congressional boundaries are drawn. In places such as Wisconsin and Ohio, they have crafted cartoonishly distorted districts that have literally drawn Democrats out of power. But the longstanding battle between Republicans and Democrats over […]


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Texas Republicans Have a Brazen New Plan to Block Democrats from Retaking the House in 2026

The state of Texas is currently mourning at least 120 lives lost due to horrific flooding in the Hill Country. But Texas Republicans appear focused on a different priority: re-gerrymandering their state to reduce Democrats’ chances of retaking the US House in 2026. After intense lobbying by the White House, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced […]


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Elon Musk is Back in Politics With the New America Party

After leaving DC, with his business empire suffering, his relationship with President Donald Trump fractured, and his DOGE efforts deemed broadly unpopular, Elon Musk is not quietly retreating to his Texas compound of pronatalists’ dreams. Instead, he announced on Saturday in a post on X that he will launch a new, third political party called […]


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