Month: October 2025

Roll Call: “Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson, who rose to national prominence after his expulsion from the state House over a gun control protest launched a bid for Congress on Wednesday, challenging longtime Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen. Pearson’s announcement is part of a larger trend of younger Democrats around the nation challenging older incumbents. Tennessee’s 9th…

WRIC: “A flyer urging Virginians to arm themselves against federal immigration officers is raising safety concerns and drawing sharp criticism from Gov. Glenn Youngkin. The flyer in question was seen displayed in Richmond. It reads, in part, “The time for peaceful protest is over.” “Fellow citizens, arm yourselves before it is too late,” it continues….

NY Times: “The Trump administration had for months been expanding its nationwide attack on higher education. But Duke still made for an odd target. Leaders of the school, North Carolina’s largest private university, embraced a stealth strategy as other elite colleges fell into the Trump administration’s cross hairs, avoiding showy standoffs with the government for…

HuffPo: “A property belonging to a South Carolina judge that temporarily blocked an effort by the Trump administration to obtain the state’s full voter registration list was destroyed in a fire on Saturday [before last], according to multiple news reports. The incident is under investigation by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. Property records cited by The Post…

WaPo: “Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) has requested federal assistance to deploy National Guard troops to combat crime in urban centers throughout the state, weeks after President Donald Trump floated the possibility of sending troops to New Orleans. In a letter dated Monday, Landry asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for as many as 1,000 troops to be…

NY Times: “Gov. Ron DeSantis and other top elected Republican state officials donated a prime state-owned property in downtown Miami on Tuesday to the nonprofit raising money for President Trump’s presidential library. Some estimates say that the property, facing Biscayne Bay, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. It belonged to Miami Dade College until…

NY Times: “James Talarico, a Texas Democratic lawmaker running for Senate, was supposed to hold the second rally of his nascent campaign on Sept. 10, the day Charlie Kirk was shot. The horror of the killing shook him deeply, and he thought about canceling. Instead, Talarico retooled his speech to make it all about Kirk’s…

WaPo: ““It just does me good to come out here and talk to him,” Peggy Williams said on a blue-sky morning at the brink of fall. She had returned once again to the quiet spot by the North Toe River where, for decades, she shared a life with Lenny Widawski, a Yancey County musician who…

WaPo: “Former congressman Madison Cawthorn (R-North Carolina), who left office in 2023 after a series of scandals, is launching a comeback campaign in Florida. Cawthorn announced Wednesday that he is running for the state’s 19th Congressional District, a seat that is open next year because the incumbent, Rep. Byron Donalds (D), is running for governor.”

Inside Elections: “Throughout 2017 and into early 2018, election watchers kept seeing the same movie over and over: Special elections in heavily Republican areas were way closer than they had any right to be, as Donald Trump’s presidency galvanized Democratic voters and put several normally safe Republican districts into play. Eight years later, Trump is…