AR Times: “In 2025, Arkansas Republicans passed a number of bills designed to limit or restrict Arkansans’ ability to change state laws and amend the state constitution at the ballot box. It wasn’t the first time the state Legislature has chipped away at the ballot measure process — a right guaranteed under the Arkansas Constitution — but…

NY Times: “A special election for a heavily Republican House seat in Tennessee that was on virtually no one’s political radar a few months ago has surfaced as the unlikely new front in the fight for control of Congress…. The Republican candidate, Mr. Van Epps, remains strongly favored. Even Democrats privately acknowledge that he is likely…

Political Wire: “The House Ethics Committee said Wednesday it was moving forward with an investigation into Rep. Cory Mills, an announcement that came hours before the Florida Republican managed to fend off a censure vote,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The secretive committee said the inquiry would consider whether Mills violated House rules or federal law, including…

NY Times: “A Tennessee judge on Monday temporarily blocked the deployment of the National Guard in Memphis, siding with state and local lawmakers who argued that Gov. Bill Lee had overstepped his constitutional authority in sending troops to the city. The ruling adds to a tangled legal landscape regarding the deployment of National Guard troops…

WaPo: “A Virginia man was sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime and firearms charges Thursday, after pleading guilty to shooting two men because he suspected they were migrants from outside the United States. Douglas Wayne Cornett, 59, had told detectives that he was angry undocumented migrants were receiving resources from the government, according…

NY Times: “For years, guards in a jail outside Jackson, Miss., terrorized those in their care, according to dozens of people who say they endured, witnessed or participated in violent assaults. Guards dragged inmates into blind corners, where cameras couldn’t capture acts of violence. They beat people behind closed doors. And they encouraged favored inmates…

Reuters: “Greene, who has been one of the most prominent voices in the MAGA movement, has not shirked from criticizing her own party or taking on Trump directly over the Epstein scandal, foreign policy, healthcare costs or the government shutdown, which saw food aid benefits for the poor cut or reduced and thousands of government workers…

NY Times: “When she takes office as governor of Virginia in January, Abigail Spanberger will step into a partisan war over the political direction of one of the nation’s most respected public university systems. The schools have lately been at the center of a push by Republicans to overhaul universities that they see as having…

AL.com: “Democrats are basking in decisive victories from Tuesday’s elections, results that some Republicans have shrugged off as predictable wins in blue strongholds. But Democrats also scored gains in reliably red states such as Georgia and Mississippi. In Mississippi, where Republicans control nearly every statewide office, Democrats flipped enough state Senate seats to end the GOP’s…

Catholic News Agency: “The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops expressed its solidarity this week with immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in Texas ahead of the implementation of a federal court order that will impact the immigrants’ legal status. In a statement released Nov. 4, the Texas bishops called the looming implementation…