WaPo: “Some of the biggest Republican donors in the country will converge next month at the historic Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach for a two-day meeting to rally behind Gov. Glenn Youngkin.The closed gathering, named the “Red Vest Retreat” after the fleece Youngkin wore during his 2021 campaign, will begin Oct. 17 and be focused,…

Political Wire: “A Mississippi sheriff “tapped into the power of a grand jury at least eight times over a year to spy on his married girlfriend and the school employee with whom she was also ‘unfaithful,’” Mississippi Today reports. “The investigative report, compiled in 2016 by the district attorney at the time, Michael Guest, laid out evidence…

The Hill: “The Supreme Court refused to reinstate Alabama’s Republican-drawn congressional map, enabling a court-appointed official to draw the lines for the 2024 election instead. The justices in June struck down Alabama’s previous map for likely diluting the power of Black voters, and the current dispute concerned a new version that still did not add…

AL.com: “A small group of protesters gathered Friday at Big Spring Park in downtown Huntsville, asking for the release of the body camera footage following the death of 43-year-old Sterling Keyon Arnold at the hands of police on Sept. 14. The release of the bodycam footage is vital for police accountability, Iris Billiter, one of the protesters,…

WaPo: “The mayor of Dallas is switching parties after serving in public office for years as a Democrat, making the north Texas city the country’s largest led by a Republican. Eric Johnson, a former Democratic Texas state lawmaker, wrote in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Friday that he was switching parties because “too…

Yahoo! News: “Mississippi announced financial incentives for a shipbuilder to expand in Gulfport in 2020, days after the president of the shipbuilder’s parent company made a $10,000 campaign contribution to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, records show. Gulf Ship LLC, which received the state incentives, is a division of the Louisiana-based ship company, Edison Chouest Offshore….

WUNC: “When legislators approve a state budget this week, about 600,000 North Carolinians will gain access to Medicaid. Lisa Franklin of Forest City is one of those people…. She’s one of hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians who will get Medicaid once it’s expanded. That was supposed to have happened already, but got delayed when…

WFAE: “North Carolina Democratic Party chair Anderson Clayton is the youngest state party chair in the country, and she wants to change the outlook for Democrats in our state…. And other than wins in statewide offices like governor and attorney general, the GOP has control over the state. The Republican Party has a supermajority in…

MS Today: “More than 16,000 Mississippians were dropped from Medicaid in August during the latest round of the agency’s disenrollments.  The pandemic-era federal regulations that prevented state Medicaid agencies from disenrolling beneficiaries ended in May. Since then, Medicaid divisions all over the country are reviewing their rolls for the first time in three years. In…

Slate: “This summer, Republicans in Florida launched an under-the-radar, yet incredibly effective, attack on criminal justice reformers in the state. In mid-June, the Republican speaker of Florida’s House of Representatives asked the state Supreme Court to create a commission to look into redrawing judicial circuit borders. By the end of the month, the Florida Supreme Court had created…