879 articles in the Politics & Elections category.
By Tommy Flynn
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled 7–0 on Thursday that the Republican-drawn congressional map passed in 2025 cannot be used on Nov. 3 and must go to a statewide referendum. Judge Ginger K. Gooch wrote that Article III, Section 49 of the state constitution lets voters approve or...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump said on the Lt. Dan Podcast on Wednesday that if the Senate does not pass the SAVE America Act before the midterms, he will be the last Republican president. “I’ll be the last — think of it, I will be the last Republican president if that happens,” he told Texas...
By Tommy Flynn
Vice President JD Vance took the White House briefing-room lectern Thursday for the first regular press briefing since Karoline Leavitt left the job Aug. 27. No permanent press secretary has been named. Leavitt stepped down to spend more time with her two young children and will...
By Tommy Flynn
The House on Wednesday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have locked the Supreme Court at nine justices. H.J.Res. 1 failed 212–206 under suspension of the rules, short of the two-thirds majority required. The roll call was No. 293. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.)...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump said Wednesday he will campaign for House, Senate, and gubernatorial candidates in the final 30 days before the Nov. 3 midterms, telling reporters he will make “a lot of stops” and telling Republican lawmakers at a White House Rose Garden dinner that “it’s all...
By Tommy Flynn
A prosecutor in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office alleged in a Friday all-staff email that his supervisor ordered him to “find and pursue crimes” against President Trump and affiliated entities without a credible predicate. The message was then deleted from office...
By Tommy Flynn
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday directed FBI Director Kash Patel to produce the full record of Operation Round River, a 2020 Foreign Influence Task Force counterintelligence effort that newly declassified documents show treated senior Trump officials,...
By Tommy Flynn
Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday the House will vote Wednesday, under suspension of the rules, on a constitutional amendment locking the Supreme Court at nine members. A two-thirds majority is required. Johnson announced the vote after the chamber passed the continuing...
By Tommy Flynn
The House on Tuesday approved the Senate’s short-term continuing resolution 370–48, extending federal funding at current fiscal 2026 levels through Dec. 11 and sending the bill to President Trump. Current appropriations expire Sept. 30. The vote, taken under suspension of the...
By Tommy Flynn
The House on Tuesday adopted H.Res. 1490, a nonbinding resolution sponsored by Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.) that “condemns and denounces socialism in all its forms, including the Democratic Socialists of America,” opposes implementing socialist policies in the United States,...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group released a report late last week concluding that the FBI’s January 23, 2023, Richmond Field Office assessment treated “radical-traditionalist Catholic” beliefs as a domestic-extremism indicator and that agents opened inquiries...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump announced Monday that nine additional mid-size drugmakers have joined the administration’s Most Favored Nation pricing framework, bringing the total to 26 companies that the White House says cover 89 percent of the branded U.S. market. Speaking in the Oval Office...