State on Wednesday won New York’s special election to fill the congressional seat left vacant by fellow Democrat Rep. Brian Higgins. “We did it. We did it as a COMMUNITY,” Mr. Kennedy stated on social media platform X following his victory in the special election. “Because that’s what this was all about since Day One. […]
Louisiana state House lawmakers passed a bill on Friday that would create a new congressional map with a second majority-black district to comply with a court order. The bill will now head to the desk of Republican Gov. Jeff Landry for signing. “The outcome of this special session is a win for the people of […]
Jacob Chansley, the Arizona man who entered the halls of Congress shirtless while wearing patriotic face paint and horned fur headgear on Jan. 6, 2021, has filed paperwork to run for Congress as a Libertarian. According to the filings, Mr. Chansley is seeking to fill the seat currently held by Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.), who […]
Lawmakers probing the cause of last month’s deadly Maui wildfire did not get many answers during Thursday’s congressional hearing on the role the electrical grid played in the disaster. The president of Hawaiian Electric, Shelee Kimura, said she didn’t know specific details about when the power stopped flowing through downed power lines in Lahaina or […]
A big topic at the Republican presidential debate was the Ukraine war. NTD invited political strategist and former Congressional candidate from Texas, Raven Harrison, to give her analysis of their performances on the debate stage. Which candidate did she think laid out the most sensible approach to the Ukraine war in terms of American interests? […]
During its eighth public hearing on July 21, the House January 6 Committee unveiled testimony and videos alleging to show that President Donald Trump was too slow to condemn the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The hearing, led by Reps. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), focused on the so-called “187 […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Pioneering a new method of political discourse, The Epoch Times hosted a debate among three candidates in Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District Republican primary at Landmark Auditorium in Nashville on July 12. Hosted by the Nashville Republican Women, the Nashville Young Republicans, and the Williamson County Young Republicans, the forum featured questions asked by a panel […]
The two Republican candidates in Alabama’s U.S. Senate primary runoff on Tuesday can each boast that at one point they had former President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race. Trump first backed Rep. Mo Brooks in the spring of 2021. That endorsement stood for nearly a year until Trump rescinded it as the conservative congressman […]
A nine-page document outlining plans to occupy a number of congressional buildings connected to the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court on Jan. 6, 2021, and to communicate demands for a new election, were released in court on Wednesday. The document, titled “1776 Returns” (pdf), was filed in court as part of a recent motion (pdf) made by one of the co-defendants […]
A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily suspended a lower court’s ruling that Louisiana redraw its six-district congressional map to add a new majority-black district. The administrative stay was issued to suspend the injunction order of U.S. Middle District Judge Shelly Dick, an appointee of former President Barrack Obama, who ruled in favor of a voting […]
A former Capitol Hill staffer who served under Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) has pled guilty for fraudulently stealing around $80,000 from the federal government. The staffer, 24-year-old Sterling Carter, “pleaded guilty today to theft of public funds in connection with his scheme to fraudulently inflate his salary and bonus payments, thereby paying himself more than […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday vetoed the state’s newly drawn congressional map and called for a special session to redraw them in April. The Republican governor claimed the congressional map, which was submitted by both chambers of the Legislature, violated the 14th Amendment. “We have a responsibility to produce maps for our citizens that […]
A federal judge late Tuesday rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to shield records from his time in office from a congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol. Trump’s lawyers argued that a request for documents sent to the U.S. archivist was “illegal, unfounded, and overbroad” and lacked a […]
Texas Republicans have advanced new maps for political districts that could bolster the GOP’s dominance and reduce the number of competitive districts statewide. The maps, which incorporate the two additional seats gained by the House, were approved late on Monday night. It followed criticism from Democrats that the redrawn maps are discriminatory and reduce minority […]
The 2020 Census data has been released after months of delays. States in the South and West gained congressional seats, while colder states like New York and Ohio lost them. California, though, is losing a House seat for the first time in its 170-year history.
Dr. Rich McCormick is working as a doctor in Georgia, and at the same time running for the state’s 7th district congressional seat. McCormick suggests one reason why this district in metro Atlanta has become a swing voter area. He says there needs to be what he called a realignment of the parties—meaning more compromise and […]
