This one at least shows some signs of Republican senators trying to distance themselves from Trump, evidence of his unpopularity and their having room to maneuver even in very red states. The stuff about Hegseth is just irrelevant to elections and campaigns.
Obituaries: Former Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), the first woman to serve as a Republican from Texas in the House, has died at 83.
Granger, a trailblazing mayor of Fort Worth, was drafted by both parties to run for the city's seat in Congress in 1996. She held it for 28 years as a Republican, eventually rising to be a powerful chair of the House Appropriations Committee. She retired two years ago after reports of her living in a nursing home with dementia explained her absence from voting.
It was a 3-way split between Bevin (70,480 votes, 32.91%), Comer (70,397 votes, 32.89%), and Hal Heiner, a former member of Louisville Metro Council and failed candidate for mayor, (57,951 votes, 27.10%). That split is what let Bevin squeak through.
Re: the Chicago mayoral item - I find it so strange that candidates are jumping into races while also competing in their current election. I understand why of course with election cycles and everything, but it just doesn't sit well with me. Would be curious to hear others' thoughts.
Agreed, but not the worst thing about Chicago politics.
Also, a bit more honest than the alternative. In 1988, with a special mayoral election a few months away that everyone knew he would be running in, Richard M. Daley said he hadn't made up his mind and that his "dream job" was to be U.S. Attorney if Dukakis won. Total b.s., and again, everyone knew it was.
Illinois should go to ranked-choice voting in November of odd-numbered years for the consolidated (municipal and special district) elections (Chicago and Danville may have February nonpartisan primaries for mayor just three months removed from a midterm general election) and move the non-presidential partisan primaries for federal, state, and county offices to May of even-numbered years.
The mayoral primary is in February for a very specific reason--the machine could count on its payrollees to vote no matter what the weather happens to be (hint: lousy). Change is hard in Chicago, so not likely to shift it to later anytime soon.
VI-Gov, VI-Del: Longtime U.S. Del. Stacey Plaskett won the Democratic primary for governor of the Virgin Islands Saturday as former territorial Sen. Janelle Sarauw won the primary for her congressional seat.
Plaskett was expected to have a competitive primary with Lt. Gov Tregenza Roach due to her ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but won convincingly by 15 points after former VPOTUS Kamala Harris campaiged for her. Sarauw defeated former U.S. Attorney Delia Smith.
Primary turnout was 48%, which is apparently high for the islands.
I'm concerned that we could lose this governorship with Plaskett's ties to Epstein, but Republicans didn't field a candidate and it's hard to judge whether any of the independents have a chance.
She'll be the first openly LGBT territorial delegate elected to congress as it doesn't seem like any independents or Republicans managed to qualify for the ballot. Washington D.C did have an openly lesbian shadow delegate back in the 90s, though.
Cindy Holscher calls to mind the late former Kansas Governor Joan Finney (1992–96). She, too, had a long record of public service. She, too, was disarmingly approachable and forthright. Kansas receives candidates like that well.
Report from the Cal Dem Party -- I was in the resolutions committee meeting where many of the propositions were debated. (Our resolutions committee votes on endorsing ballot propositions.) The debate on Prop 5, the recall election reform, was very short. One person from Public Counsel or Common Cause, I forget which, testified for it; no one opposed it; the committee didn't have any substantive questions; it passed the committee unanimously and then got approved by the e-board as a whole. Ask me about any other resolutions you're curious about, although I was not in the room by the time we got around to Prop 40/ billionaire tax.
Prop 5 took a long time to make it to the ballot. The concern about gubernatorial succession arose out of the recall election in 2021. Maybe the timing would have been too tight for 2022, but it could have been on the 2024 ballot. Better late than not happening at all, though. That is my first and easiest endorsement for the November election. YES on 5 !!!
I assume Alaska folks are on this, but Richard Grayson (listed as a Green candidate for Governor) was running for office in Arizona as recently as this spring. Is he even an Alaska resident?
Doubtful, he's a writer who has run for office in multiple states. His campaigns are satirical. He was the Dem nominee for WY-AL in 2014, running as a "hip-hop candidate" with a campaign committee called "PPLZ 4 GRAYSON CREW"
I think the Constitution allows for candidates to run for federal office in any state as long as they (assuming they win, which, lol) become a resident of the state prior to taking the oath.
Mr. Grayson has some residual name recognition from his previous job as being "Robin the Boy Wonder" under the name Dick Grayson. That was Batman's assistant in the comic books...
I know polling for these kinds of races is slim, but where are things with the various state legislatures in battlegrounds? I'm thinking Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and the like. Congress is obviously important, but the more state governments the Democrats control, the better things will be for things like voting rights, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, health and welfare provision, and so much more.
I think PA, MI, MN, and AZ can (re) gain trifectas. WI trifecta is a long shot with Hong at the top of the ticket, but I do see a split legislature (meaning that WI Rs can't push any more constitutional red meat amendments on their ballot).
It would be miraculous if Keisha Lance Bottoms nabbed a trifecta to work with, although she'll probably have one state House to work with if polling is accurate (meaning she wins the governor's mansion).
It would be nice if Governor Stein got some help in North Carolina too. Between the strength of Gov. Cooper's Senate run and the problems the Republicans seem to be creating for themselves (see the post by Martybooks) it sure feels like the plan is coming together nicely.
Carolina Forward's Blair Reeves put out a video today detailing the NC GOP's money problems. I've linked to the site before, but outgoing state Senate leader Phil Berger blew through $12-13M in a failed attempt to keep his seat. Money that otherwise would've gone to vulnerable incumbent GOP legislators.
Mark Robinson's failed run for governor in 2024 cost $20M for a statewide race (where he got trounced by now-governor Stein). In that same year, the NC GOP spent $12M in total for ALL of their state legislative races.
And let's not forget the several million dollars blown on the Riggs vs. Griffin fight.
If Dems somehow still get the legislature with Hong at the top of the ticket in WI, they need to RUSH to put independent redistricting on the ballot. I do NOT want Republicans redrawing the legislature and congressional seats again after 2030.
Theoretically, if Dems gain control of the WI legislature but lose the governor's mansion, they can still put an independent redistricting amendment on the ballot.
WI Rs pushed the photo voter ID amendment on the April 2025 ballot with the big-ticket state Supreme Court race -- and successfully got it enacted.
WI Dems could, but are they smart enough and forward thinking enough to do this? Even if Hong wins, they should do this, since I don’t think her chances of surviving a 2030 midterm under a Dem president would be very good.
Why should this be the play? Why not do a mid-decade redraw of the state legislative boundaries to gerrymander in our favor, so we can hold it even in a bad year, and try to strip power from the governor? It worked great for NC Republicans.
First off, if Dems don’t have the governorship they can’t draw the lines. Second, geography is not as favorable to Dems in WI as it is to Rs in NC. Third, why would the WI state Supreme Court allow an incredibly messy middecade gerrymander of the legislature when they recently struck down the Republican maps as partisan gerrymanders? Dem judges tend to not be as hackish as R ones and even if they allow it, how do we know that the US Supreme Court wouldn’t break prior precedent and strike down a state map because Dems drew it?
Why not do both? Put a D gerrymander in place for 2028 and get independent redistricting in place for post 2028. I'd suggest this in MI and PA as well if we get those trifectas.
I think this lacks imagination. We should press any time we get an advantage, like the other side has been doing for some time now. If you assume anything you try will fail then you have to settle for a commission (which Rs will try to dismantle regardless if they get a chance), but I would try to press for more.
We might have the advantage here after 2026 or 2028, but probably won’t after 2030 given that Dem is likely to be president during that election. Assuming that we were gonna control everything and not having any backup plans is what caused us to get killed in redistricting in 2011.
2031. If there is a Dem president, Tiffany is not being defeated and likely brings a Republican legislature with him in 2030 and will get to regerrymander the legislature.. There is likely no second bite here.
The focus should be on putting insurance in place (independent commission) to prevent Rs from being allowed to gerrymander going forward.
This needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Getting a trifecta doesn’t mean it’s gonna last more than two years. Dems should remember from 2010 when they watched Dem trifecta after Dem trifecta or control of a legislature vanish overnight and turn into Republican trifectas just in time for redistricting.
I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion a hypothetical Gov. Tiffany wins reelection in 2030 under a Democratic President. He’s old af and extreme af. Governors races are weird.
Governors have one of the strongest incumbency advantage of any office, more so than Senate. If a Dem is president it’s highly unlikely even Tiffany loses as an incumbent.
Also, even if Tiffany won in both 2026 and 2030, at least we have the backstop now of the state Supreme Court, unlike the Walker era. That should mitigate a lot of the damage of a Gov. Tiffany, or, God forbid, a Republican trifecta. Even on redistricting.
We can’t rely on holding the state Supreme Court forever. There future elections, justices could pass away. We just don’t know.
Also, I wouldn’t put it past SCOTUS to break precedent and start striking down state supreme redistricting rulings.
Bottom line, with independent redistricting in WI and PA, we would take all of these concerns off the table in two states where Republicans are much more likely to have trifectas for redistricting than Dems after 2030.
https://www.multistate.us/elections/ has a nice UI for seeing current compositions, seats up, and 2024 presidential margins for state legislative districts.
I didn't do any data analysis to confirm this, but it seems like in states where the legislature is closely divided, partisanship prevails and the state-level voting is similar to federal voting. In places where control of the state legislature isn't in question, there are more outliers (Rs who won strong Harris districts and vice versa).
If the legislature control isn’t in question, more voters are likely to split tickets or the party won’t go hard after Reps who hold districts that would otherwise be won by the other party. It’s why you have a bunch of Harris/R legislator districts in MA and CT and some Trump/D ones in Kentucky and West Virginia.
Politico, in its writeup, somewhat inaccurately referred to the MD map that was struck down in 2022 as an 8-0 map. Actually it was 7-0-1, the one tossup being a MD-01 that Andy Harris would probably have held on to in 2022-24 but might well be on the way to losing this year.
Meanwhile, I hope my neighbours to the south are screening and carefully preparing lists of potential SCOVA justices.
I'm positive that the VA General Assembly is compiling a list of young, progressive candidates to replace the GOP judge up next year. Because he WON'T be getting another term on SCOVA.
Any polling to show what's happened to Laura Kelly's approval after pouring $1.8 billion of taxpayer money down the sewer hole to build a new playpark for the Chiefs?
Who could have imagined that Donald Trump would turn on me when I refused to do something impossible, immoral or illegal? In all seriousness, any government attorney who wants to keep their law licence past 2029 should resign before this happens to them.
Allies of Donald Trump are pushing the president to encourage embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller to drop his reelection bid, according to four sources familiar with the matter, amid claims of domestic abuse from his ex-wife and pressure from his former father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno.
CA-Insurance Commissioner: It appears that state Senator Ben Allen has secured the state party's endorsement in the insurance commissioner's race. He needed 60% of delegates at this week's party meeting, and he got 60.68%.
For a downballot statewide race, this is a big deal. Most people don't know much about the office, and Allen's name will appear on any slate that the party sends out anywhere in the state.
As someone who has been really unimpressed with Jane Kim throughout her career and view her as a charlatan, I think this is a great decision. I also expect Senator Ben Allen will tackle the most serious issue of wildfires impact on home insurance, as he current represents the Pacific Palisades.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I strongly encourage California voters to vote for Allen this fall!
MVP Harris saying Dems need to be ruthless in a non-cruel, law abiding way.
Revisit Electoral College, Expanding SCOTUS to 13, and adding DC & PR as states.
Should be been there 6 years ago. Better late than never though.
No do raising taxes on the rich & corporations, M4A, climate change, housing, paid leave, raising the min wage, getting the $$ out of politics, and holding people accountable for corruption.
And even then I'd say those are the bare minimum. e.g. I like that the DSA has in their ideas to eliminate the Senate, I'd add to that uncapping the House and moving to at least a semi-presidential parliamentary system, of course that is more blue sky stuff
You'd need a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Senate, but the 438 cap can be easily done. And should be. GOP did it in 1930 or thereabouts to minimize excpected Dem wins post crash.
Of the past 22 comments, 19 are from you. STOP THE SPAM. (If we want to read everything on rawstory.com, we know where to find them.)
This one at least shows some signs of Republican senators trying to distance themselves from Trump, evidence of his unpopularity and their having room to maneuver even in very red states. The stuff about Hegseth is just irrelevant to elections and campaigns.
https://apnews.com/article/kay-granger-texas-death-house-d23ffbe41dea3e373268648bd13e3388
Obituaries: Former Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), the first woman to serve as a Republican from Texas in the House, has died at 83.
Granger, a trailblazing mayor of Fort Worth, was drafted by both parties to run for the city's seat in Congress in 1996. She held it for 28 years as a Republican, eventually rising to be a powerful chair of the House Appropriations Committee. She retired two years ago after reports of her living in a nursing home with dementia explained her absence from voting.
I hadn't decided where I wanted to spend my final years, but now I know I must be placed in a cursing home.
LMAO
Omg. Thank you for catching that lol
She was the first Republican woman from Texas to serve in the US House. Kay Bailey Hutchison was earlier elected to the Senate.
That hypocrite James Comer running for KY governor? A big downgrade from Beshear.
He ran in 2015 and got edged out by Bevin by like 100 votes. So in a way we have Comer to thank for Beshear
It was a 3-way split between Bevin (70,480 votes, 32.91%), Comer (70,397 votes, 32.89%), and Hal Heiner, a former member of Louisville Metro Council and failed candidate for mayor, (57,951 votes, 27.10%). That split is what let Bevin squeak through.
I thought the same thing!!
Re: the Chicago mayoral item - I find it so strange that candidates are jumping into races while also competing in their current election. I understand why of course with election cycles and everything, but it just doesn't sit well with me. Would be curious to hear others' thoughts.
Had a similar thought. It’s like “why am I electing you to this office, you don’t even want to be there?!?!”
Agreed, but not the worst thing about Chicago politics.
Also, a bit more honest than the alternative. In 1988, with a special mayoral election a few months away that everyone knew he would be running in, Richard M. Daley said he hadn't made up his mind and that his "dream job" was to be U.S. Attorney if Dukakis won. Total b.s., and again, everyone knew it was.
Illinois should go to ranked-choice voting in November of odd-numbered years for the consolidated (municipal and special district) elections (Chicago and Danville may have February nonpartisan primaries for mayor just three months removed from a midterm general election) and move the non-presidential partisan primaries for federal, state, and county offices to May of even-numbered years.
The mayoral primary is in February for a very specific reason--the machine could count on its payrollees to vote no matter what the weather happens to be (hint: lousy). Change is hard in Chicago, so not likely to shift it to later anytime soon.
https://stthomassource.com/content/2026/08/01/historic-early-vote-propels-plaskett-sarauw-to-democratic-primary-victories/
VI-Gov, VI-Del: Longtime U.S. Del. Stacey Plaskett won the Democratic primary for governor of the Virgin Islands Saturday as former territorial Sen. Janelle Sarauw won the primary for her congressional seat.
Plaskett was expected to have a competitive primary with Lt. Gov Tregenza Roach due to her ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but won convincingly by 15 points after former VPOTUS Kamala Harris campaiged for her. Sarauw defeated former U.S. Attorney Delia Smith.
Primary turnout was 48%, which is apparently high for the islands.
I'm concerned that we could lose this governorship with Plaskett's ties to Epstein, but Republicans didn't field a candidate and it's hard to judge whether any of the independents have a chance.
The independents are all has-beens that have either been out of public office/public life for years.
Oh, and the last time Republicans did field a candidate was *1974*. I think Plaskett will be fine.
Sarauw is openly gay as well!
She'll be the first openly LGBT territorial delegate elected to congress as it doesn't seem like any independents or Republicans managed to qualify for the ballot. Washington D.C did have an openly lesbian shadow delegate back in the 90s, though.
Cindy Holscher calls to mind the late former Kansas Governor Joan Finney (1992–96). She, too, had a long record of public service. She, too, was disarmingly approachable and forthright. Kansas receives candidates like that well.
90 to 94, not 92 to 96. Bill Graves succeeding her was part of the 94 Republican Revolution.
You are so right.
Report from the Cal Dem Party -- I was in the resolutions committee meeting where many of the propositions were debated. (Our resolutions committee votes on endorsing ballot propositions.) The debate on Prop 5, the recall election reform, was very short. One person from Public Counsel or Common Cause, I forget which, testified for it; no one opposed it; the committee didn't have any substantive questions; it passed the committee unanimously and then got approved by the e-board as a whole. Ask me about any other resolutions you're curious about, although I was not in the room by the time we got around to Prop 40/ billionaire tax.
Prop 5 took a long time to make it to the ballot. The concern about gubernatorial succession arose out of the recall election in 2021. Maybe the timing would have been too tight for 2022, but it could have been on the 2024 ballot. Better late than not happening at all, though. That is my first and easiest endorsement for the November election. YES on 5 !!!
I assume Alaska folks are on this, but Richard Grayson (listed as a Green candidate for Governor) was running for office in Arizona as recently as this spring. Is he even an Alaska resident?
Doubtful, he's a writer who has run for office in multiple states. His campaigns are satirical. He was the Dem nominee for WY-AL in 2014, running as a "hip-hop candidate" with a campaign committee called "PPLZ 4 GRAYSON CREW"
Kinda wild, how can one be a perennial candidate in multiple states? He’s been on the AZ ballot for different offices for years
I think the Constitution allows for candidates to run for federal office in any state as long as they (assuming they win, which, lol) become a resident of the state prior to taking the oath.
Mr. Grayson has some residual name recognition from his previous job as being "Robin the Boy Wonder" under the name Dick Grayson. That was Batman's assistant in the comic books...
He's no Rocky De La Fuente who famously ran for the Senate in 9 separate states at the same time a few years ago.
Woo Hoo Rs just cant keep it in. Edwards NC-11 to be charged by House Ethics for sexual harassment. https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/2084340516313825532?s=20
Lean Red district. Flip it time!
Not that long ago this district was one of the most competitive in the country.
It flipped 5 times from 1980-1990!
Hoping the censure happens on his 66th birthday on September 13
What is it about that district and Reps catching weird sex pest allegations
I know polling for these kinds of races is slim, but where are things with the various state legislatures in battlegrounds? I'm thinking Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and the like. Congress is obviously important, but the more state governments the Democrats control, the better things will be for things like voting rights, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, health and welfare provision, and so much more.
I think PA, MI, MN, and AZ can (re) gain trifectas. WI trifecta is a long shot with Hong at the top of the ticket, but I do see a split legislature (meaning that WI Rs can't push any more constitutional red meat amendments on their ballot).
It would be miraculous if Keisha Lance Bottoms nabbed a trifecta to work with, although she'll probably have one state House to work with if polling is accurate (meaning she wins the governor's mansion).
It would be nice if Governor Stein got some help in North Carolina too. Between the strength of Gov. Cooper's Senate run and the problems the Republicans seem to be creating for themselves (see the post by Martybooks) it sure feels like the plan is coming together nicely.
Carolina Forward's Blair Reeves put out a video today detailing the NC GOP's money problems. I've linked to the site before, but outgoing state Senate leader Phil Berger blew through $12-13M in a failed attempt to keep his seat. Money that otherwise would've gone to vulnerable incumbent GOP legislators.
Mark Robinson's failed run for governor in 2024 cost $20M for a statewide race (where he got trounced by now-governor Stein). In that same year, the NC GOP spent $12M in total for ALL of their state legislative races.
And let's not forget the several million dollars blown on the Riggs vs. Griffin fight.
If Dems somehow still get the legislature with Hong at the top of the ticket in WI, they need to RUSH to put independent redistricting on the ballot. I do NOT want Republicans redrawing the legislature and congressional seats again after 2030.
Theoretically, if Dems gain control of the WI legislature but lose the governor's mansion, they can still put an independent redistricting amendment on the ballot.
WI Rs pushed the photo voter ID amendment on the April 2025 ballot with the big-ticket state Supreme Court race -- and successfully got it enacted.
WI Dems could, but are they smart enough and forward thinking enough to do this? Even if Hong wins, they should do this, since I don’t think her chances of surviving a 2030 midterm under a Dem president would be very good.
If WI Dems get independent redistricting on the ballot with an R governor, it'll be a win in the long run.
Why should this be the play? Why not do a mid-decade redraw of the state legislative boundaries to gerrymander in our favor, so we can hold it even in a bad year, and try to strip power from the governor? It worked great for NC Republicans.
First off, if Dems don’t have the governorship they can’t draw the lines. Second, geography is not as favorable to Dems in WI as it is to Rs in NC. Third, why would the WI state Supreme Court allow an incredibly messy middecade gerrymander of the legislature when they recently struck down the Republican maps as partisan gerrymanders? Dem judges tend to not be as hackish as R ones and even if they allow it, how do we know that the US Supreme Court wouldn’t break prior precedent and strike down a state map because Dems drew it?
Why not do both? Put a D gerrymander in place for 2028 and get independent redistricting in place for post 2028. I'd suggest this in MI and PA as well if we get those trifectas.
I’d suggest it for PA for sure. MI already has an independent commission (thankfully).
The question is whether PA and WI Dems are smart enough to actually do this?
I think this lacks imagination. We should press any time we get an advantage, like the other side has been doing for some time now. If you assume anything you try will fail then you have to settle for a commission (which Rs will try to dismantle regardless if they get a chance), but I would try to press for more.
We might have the advantage here after 2026 or 2028, but probably won’t after 2030 given that Dem is likely to be president during that election. Assuming that we were gonna control everything and not having any backup plans is what caused us to get killed in redistricting in 2011.
Does redistrcting actually happen in 2030 or 2031?
I mean is there a 2nd bite at the applecthere if Hong loses?
2031. If there is a Dem president, Tiffany is not being defeated and likely brings a Republican legislature with him in 2030 and will get to regerrymander the legislature.. There is likely no second bite here.
The focus should be on putting insurance in place (independent commission) to prevent Rs from being allowed to gerrymander going forward.
wisconsin and pa need commissions, if we get another fdr or jfk we can undo them then
This needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Getting a trifecta doesn’t mean it’s gonna last more than two years. Dems should remember from 2010 when they watched Dem trifecta after Dem trifecta or control of a legislature vanish overnight and turn into Republican trifectas just in time for redistricting.
I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion a hypothetical Gov. Tiffany wins reelection in 2030 under a Democratic President. He’s old af and extreme af. Governors races are weird.
Governors have one of the strongest incumbency advantage of any office, more so than Senate. If a Dem is president it’s highly unlikely even Tiffany loses as an incumbent.
Also, even if Tiffany won in both 2026 and 2030, at least we have the backstop now of the state Supreme Court, unlike the Walker era. That should mitigate a lot of the damage of a Gov. Tiffany, or, God forbid, a Republican trifecta. Even on redistricting.
We can’t rely on holding the state Supreme Court forever. There future elections, justices could pass away. We just don’t know.
Also, I wouldn’t put it past SCOTUS to break precedent and start striking down state supreme redistricting rulings.
Bottom line, with independent redistricting in WI and PA, we would take all of these concerns off the table in two states where Republicans are much more likely to have trifectas for redistricting than Dems after 2030.
https://www.multistate.us/elections/ has a nice UI for seeing current compositions, seats up, and 2024 presidential margins for state legislative districts.
I didn't do any data analysis to confirm this, but it seems like in states where the legislature is closely divided, partisanship prevails and the state-level voting is similar to federal voting. In places where control of the state legislature isn't in question, there are more outliers (Rs who won strong Harris districts and vice versa).
If the legislature control isn’t in question, more voters are likely to split tickets or the party won’t go hard after Reps who hold districts that would otherwise be won by the other party. It’s why you have a bunch of Harris/R legislator districts in MA and CT and some Trump/D ones in Kentucky and West Virginia.
I'd say the competitive chambers are:
Alaska (both chambers, coalitions make this complicated)
Arizona (both chambers)
Georgia (only the House, Senate is out of reach)
Maine (only the House because New England can be a bit unpredictable, Senate is likely safe)
Michigan (both chambers, Democrats are probably favored in at least the Senate)
Minnesota (both chambers although Democrats are probably favorites in both)
New Hampshire (probably only the House, Senate is a reach)
Pennsylvania (both chambers)
Wisconsin (both chambers)
MD-Redistricting: Back to work. If this passes this week, then we vote on it in November and a new congressional map can be passed for 2028.
https://marylandmatters.org/2026/08/03/lawmakers-convene-for-what-leaders-hope-is-quick-work-on-a-redistricting-bill/
Politico, in its writeup, somewhat inaccurately referred to the MD map that was struck down in 2022 as an 8-0 map. Actually it was 7-0-1, the one tossup being a MD-01 that Andy Harris would probably have held on to in 2022-24 but might well be on the way to losing this year.
Meanwhile, I hope my neighbours to the south are screening and carefully preparing lists of potential SCOVA justices.
I'm positive that the VA General Assembly is compiling a list of young, progressive candidates to replace the GOP judge up next year. Because he WON'T be getting another term on SCOVA.
Any polling to show what's happened to Laura Kelly's approval after pouring $1.8 billion of taxpayer money down the sewer hole to build a new playpark for the Chiefs?
a very brownback-esque move, from a governor i really respect
Uh oh looks like Judge Box o Wine may not be long for this world https://x.com/jake__traylor/status/2084383023164743844?s=61&t=5copDbz1aPl7ASsRCUclLg
Who could have imagined that Donald Trump would turn on me when I refused to do something impossible, immoral or illegal? In all seriousness, any government attorney who wants to keep their law licence past 2029 should resign before this happens to them.
Allies of Donald Trump are pushing the president to encourage embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller to drop his reelection bid, according to four sources familiar with the matter, amid claims of domestic abuse from his ex-wife and pressure from his former father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/max-miller-abuse-trump-drop-out
CA-Insurance Commissioner: It appears that state Senator Ben Allen has secured the state party's endorsement in the insurance commissioner's race. He needed 60% of delegates at this week's party meeting, and he got 60.68%.
https://cadem.org/ENDORSEMENTS/
For a downballot statewide race, this is a big deal. Most people don't know much about the office, and Allen's name will appear on any slate that the party sends out anywhere in the state.
As someone who has been really unimpressed with Jane Kim throughout her career and view her as a charlatan, I think this is a great decision. I also expect Senator Ben Allen will tackle the most serious issue of wildfires impact on home insurance, as he current represents the Pacific Palisades.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I strongly encourage California voters to vote for Allen this fall!
MVP Harris saying Dems need to be ruthless in a non-cruel, law abiding way.
Revisit Electoral College, Expanding SCOTUS to 13, and adding DC & PR as states.
Should be been there 6 years ago. Better late than never though.
No do raising taxes on the rich & corporations, M4A, climate change, housing, paid leave, raising the min wage, getting the $$ out of politics, and holding people accountable for corruption.
And even then I'd say those are the bare minimum. e.g. I like that the DSA has in their ideas to eliminate the Senate, I'd add to that uncapping the House and moving to at least a semi-presidential parliamentary system, of course that is more blue sky stuff
You'd need a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Senate, but the 438 cap can be easily done. And should be. GOP did it in 1930 or thereabouts to minimize excpected Dem wins post crash.
Are you talking about increasing the size of the House of Representatives in addition to adding more states?