Texas Governor Greg Abbott wasted no time in escalating the state’s redistricting battle. Within two hours of the previous special session ending on August 15, Abbott called lawmakers back to Austin ...

A familiar fight resurfacing in Texas politics: who gets to decide when election-related crimes should be prosecuted — the local district attorney whose office sits in the community, or the state ...

Texas is an open partisan primary state, which means it does not have to register voters by party affiliation. When voters go ...

Monday to reject a measure that would add ranked choice voting to city elections. The decision means that voters will not ...

California Democrats are getting ready for a fight they can’t win. And taxpayers will foot the bill for the privilege.

The America Party was announced in the middle of a public breakup between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. The two parted ways at the end of May. Musk criticized Trump’s signature tax cut and his ...

Gerrymandering wasn’t invented by Trump. It predates most states in the union. It’s named after Elbridge Gerry, who sliced up ...

It is a classic political threat. Take one more step, and I will act. But this time, even though the target is Texas ...

Texas Republicans have threatened to redraw their maps to protect their party’s majority in Congress. California Democrats ...

“In the last few months alone,” the letter continues, “President Trump has filed baseless lawsuits against news organizations that have published stories he does not like and leveraged them into ...

The celebrity-studded wildfire relief concert held on January 30, 2025, was to raise funds to aid victims of the Palisades and Altadena fires, two of the most destructive wildfires in California ...

IVN recognizes that being independent means something different to different people. It isn’t an ideology. It doesn’t require people to fall “in the center.” Being independent-minded is a mindset, and ...