State and local plans for Election Day include how to react to potential ICE raids, misbehavior by federal election monitors and attempts to seize votes or machines.
Democratic attorneys general have spearheaded state resistance to President Trump’s policies. But some face tight election races despite polls showing broad voter support for Democrats.
“The federal government can’t just roll over us,” said Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, an endangered Democrat who is campaigning for his political life.
Statehouses make health-care policy, guide education, and may redraw congressional districts ahead of 2028. With the stakes high, more than 6,100 legislators will be elected Nov. 3.
Increasingly violent storms in the nation’s midsection, like the storm that hit Gilbert Kirk’s house in Kansas City, Kan., are driving up homeowners insurance.
The fight for the Michigan Statehouse is unique. President Trump is unpopular, like in other states, but Democrats are the incumbents in Lansing, and Abdul El-Sayed might be a drag down ticket.
Michigan Democrats like State Senator Kevin Hertel, right, hope their party can capture both chambers of the Legislature and keep the governorship, but unlike in other states, Republicans have a shot at complete control as well.
The swing state of Wisconsin had one of the most undemocratic State Assembly maps in the country. Now Democrats have a chance to take control of the legislature.
State Representative Jenna Jacobson goes door to door to talk with voters while campaigning in her hometown, Oregon, Wis.
The limits on mail-in voting may not go into effect by November, with a multistate lawsuit expected this week. But some states and experts warned about further voter confusion.
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus had ambitions for a total takeover of elected state government. But its candidates were rejected from the governor’s mansion to the Legislature.
Wyoming, one of the most conservative states, has a legislature divided between a hard-right House and a merely right Senate. Ultraconservatives want a complete takeover in the Aug. 18 primaries.
State Representative Alexander Kolodin will take on Adrian Fontes, the incumbent Democratic secretary of state, after defeating a more moderate Republican in the primary.
Democrats have real hope for candidates for governor in red states like Iowa and Ohio, but if Republicans seize supermajorities in the legislatures, their power would be limited.
Democrats want to block Republicans from winning a supermajority in the Iowa legislature in November, but the key will be winning over rural voters.
The data center boom has roiled communities across the country, but on Native land, a Big Tech push for quick approvals has pitted the need for development against a history of exploitation.
“True wealth is the well-being of our families,” Chebon Kernell, a tribal council member for the Seminole Nation, said during a tour of his family’s cemetery.
Penny Brown Reynolds, a former judge, defeated Dana Barrett ahead of a potentially fraught general election to see who will succeed Brad Raffensperger as secretary of state.
State Representative Tim Fleming defeated an ardent denier of the 2020 election results, Vernon Jones, in the Republican runoff to be Georgia’s top election official.
Tuesday’s runoff for a slot on the Alabama Public Service Commission has a familiar ring to it, with talk of data centers and electricity costs. But in a southern twist, solar power has joined the list of villains.
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