Text messages and committee findings show Rep. Scott Perry lobbied to install Jeffrey Clark at the Justice Department and pressed Pennsylvania lawmakers to dispute the 2020 election results.

Data leaks link married WI candidate David Daniels to AdultFriendFinder and Fling.com accounts.

Democratic text spam raised $678 million, and only $11 million went to making the case for candidates. James Carville's name is on some of those texts.

Bo French's racist tirade against South Asian UT fans exposes a GOP identity crisis, splitting Texas Republicans and testing whether ethnic nationalism can survive past Trump.

A rally in corn and soybean prices offers hope, but $6 diesel fuel and soaring shipping surcharges continue to squeeze farm profits.

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A year after his assassination, Charlie Kirk has become a meme instead of a martyr, and his movement looks rudderless. But he was a top-notch opportunist who savvily glommed onto Christian Nationalism for cultural power, and we shouldn't ignore the political lessons of his success.

The Jackson County Republican Party is selling golf sponsorships named after the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and Flight 93 for an event on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Michigan House Democrats want Rep. Kathy Schmaltz to call for it to be canceled.

Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,182 bills, 48 states, everything from abortion bounties to a study of chemtrails. Search it by issue,...

Missouri GOP candidate Thomas Ross faces federal charges after allegedly plotting to plant cocaine on his opponent.

Why does Abdul El-Sayed face backlash for campaigning with Hasan Piker while Republicans skate free after appearing with Ted Nugent, RFK Jr. and worse? Plus this week's state politics roundup.

The Michigan Republican has voted at least four times to hand tariff authority to the president, even after conceding the costs would land on his constituents.

The Wisconsin Senate candidate's ad brags about a project she says cleaned up Lake Altoona for free. County records — and Skinner's own voting record — tell a different story.

El-Sayed has softened his single-payer pitch. Mamdani is sending tax notices to second-home owners rather than seizing property. Every time a left-wing candidate wins and then governs inside the existing order, the Democratic establishment wins an argument it won't admit it's having.