I was born in Atlanta and spent my early childhood years growing up in John Lewis’s congressional district. My brother and I attended pre-school with Lewis’s kids, and my mom and dad attended parents’ meetings with Lewis and his wife, Lillian. I’ll always feel lucky because of that personal connection, but it’s not why John Lewis […]

Georgia Republican Karen Handel, who faces off against Democrat Jon Ossoff in Tuesday’s special election, has decried the lack of civility in American political discourse. But she’s not pointing a finger at her own party, who spent eight years hinting or outright declaring that President Barack Obama was illegitimate because he was a secret Kenyan. […]

Donald Trump is not popular in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. While 52 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of Democrat Jon Ossoff — compared with a 42 percent favorable impression of his Republican, opponent Karen Handel — only 35 percent view Trump favorably. Handel has tried to keep her distance, but Trump can’t seem to help […]

Democrat Danica Roem won the Virginia primary for the 13th State House District this week, giving her an opportunity to fight back against Republican Bob Marshall, whom Daily Kos describes as the “most virulently anti-LGBT and right-wing lawmaker in the House of Delegates.” Roem, a transgender woman, has some choice words for Marshall: People are tired of […]

With less than two weeks to go before the special election runoff for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, Republicans are running out of time to defeat Jon Ossoff. A new poll in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows Ossoff up against his Republican opponent Karen Handel, 51 to 44. In one of the most striking categories of the […]

During her first debate with Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District race, Republican Karen Handel tried and failed to defend her troubling record of cutting funding for breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood. She disingenuously claimed that, while serving as the vice president for public policy at Susan G. Komen For the Cure, she […]

You might remember Karen Handel, the Republican whom Jon Ossoff trounced by 30 points in the Georgia special election, from her work at nearly destroying the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, but she has plenty of other dirty tricks up her sleeves, as well. As a Komen foundation vice-president in 2012, Handel led the […]

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) announced that he would not run for re-election in 2018, in another sign of the power of resistance, the potential of a wave election in those midterms, and the danger for Republicans who align themselves with the albatross that is Donald Trump. Jason Chaffetz is not running for re-election. pic.twitter.com/4awWSbN4Vo — Yashar […]

The special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District — to fill the seat vacated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price — is turning out to be symbolic on many levels. Democrat Jon Ossoff’s 30-point clobbering of the Republican field, for a seat Republicans have held for four decades, is a powerful referendum on Donald Trump’s […]

In a few short months, a special election in a solid Republican congressional district in the northern suburbs of Atlanta unexpectedly became a competitive race, as a hitherto-obscure 30-year-old Democrat named Jon Ossoff was promoted by a grassroots Daily Kos campaign and by Republicans’ incompetent hit jobs against him. Soon, Ossoff was racking up endorsements […]

Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King has been occupying a seat in Congress for over 14 years. And in that time, he has proven himself time and again to be a far-right ideologue trafficking in, among much else, overt racism, homophobia, and retrogressive sexism. Yet he has consistently won reelection by large margins, with Democratic opponents rarely able […]

On Tuesday, voters in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District will head to the polls to fill the vacancy left by Tom Price, Donald Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services — a seat that has been in Republican hands since 1978. Against all odds and conventional wisdom, Democrat Jon Ossoff, the young former congressional staffer and documentary […]

The Senate map in 2018 poses a massive challenge for Democrats, who have to defend 24 seats to Republicans’ 10. But already, one Democratic senator is building up a huge war chest to fight off a GOP challenge. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is reporting a fundraising haul of $2.4 million in the first quarter of 2017 — the largest […]

Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) is expected to challenge Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp in next year’s midterm election. In advance of that matchup, Cramer has publicly taken an extraordinarily hostile position toward the popular Social Security system. In a radio interview, Cramer argued in favor of “making adjustments” to Social Security for people who are 30, […]

The special election to replace Tom Price in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District is not going well for Republicans. Jon Ossoff, young documentary filmmaker and Democratic rising star, is tied or ahead in recent polls and benefiting from a coordinated field operation. Meanwhile, the GOP is struggling to prop up Karen Handel, a pro-Trump career politician who famously destroyed […]

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) now has a Democratic challenger in the 2018 Senate race in Texas, after Rep. Beto O’Rourke announced that he would step up to the plate. O’Rourke is a three-term congressman from El Paso, and as the Wall Street Journal notes, “His entry in the race against a heavily favored incumbent is […]

The special election to fill the congressional seat vacated by Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was never supposed to be competitive. Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District, which contains the northern suburbs of Atlanta, has not been held by a Democrat in nearly forty years. But in the three months since a young, almost-unknown filmmaker […]

Donald Trump’s early unpopularity, coupled with his apparent disinterest in key elections and antagonism toward his fellow Republicans, already has his party on the path to losses in the midterm elections, if voters resisting him make sure to show up. Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics points out that Trump’s anemic […]

With Donald Trump facing a record-breaking low 36 percent approval rating only two months into his presidency, the Mercer family, headed by a hedge-fund multi-billionaire Robert Mercer, is jumping to his rescue. Established in December 2016 and run by Robert Mercer’s daughter, Rebekah Mercer, the family’s non-profit “Making America Great” is launching a $1.3 million television […]

The past few months have seen massive grassroots energy poured into Democratic candidates in traditionally red congressional districts that have not been competitive for decades. In particular, Jon Ossoff has demolished expectations in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, and James Thompson has experienced a late surge in Tuesday’s election for Kansas’s 4th Congressional District, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee […]

California Governor Jerry Brown has a message for the Donald Trump-backing Republicans who are supporting efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act: Your name is “going to be mud.” Brown explained to Meet the Press host Chuck Todd that “this bill is not health care reform or repeal and replace, it’s death, disease, and suffering.” […]

The special election for Montana’s at-large Congressional District was a strange and unpredictable affair from the beginning, with Democrat Rob Quist, a celebrity folk singer, facing off against Republican Greg Gianforte, a tech millionaire with ties to white nationalists, hate groups, and Russian oil companies. Gianforte carried the night, as expected, given that Montana has […]

Physically assaulting a reporter is no big thing if it means holding on to political power, according to public statements from multiple Republicans. These men have gone on record to minimize the behavior of Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte, who according to multiple eyewitnesses and an audio recording, physically attacked Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs by […]

In her first public statement after the inauguration, Hillary Clinton recorded a moving message for the Makers Conference, in which she declared that, “Despite all the challenges we face, I remain convinced that, yes, the future is female.” And women across the country agree. Since the November election, over 10,000 Democratic women have contacted EMILY’s List […]

Montana’s Republican congressional candidate, Greg Gianforte, has been charged with assault. On the night before Election Day, he “body slammed” a reporter who asked him to comment on the GOP health care repeal bill following the release of the CBO score revealing that it would leave 23 million people without health coverage. Three local newspapers have rescinded their endorsements of Gianforte, […]

Buoyed by the backlash against Donald Trump’s presidency, Democrats around the country are mobilizing for special elections, including in states where Republicans are accustomed to dominating the political field. Over the past few months, for example, Georgia has received national attention as Democrat Jon Ossoff has broken open a race in a solidly Republican congressional district, raising […]

Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate for the open House seat in Montana, allegedly just physically assaulted a reporter. Ben Jacobs of The Guardian tweeted, “Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses.” In a follow-up, he noted that a television crew was present. Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses […]

Republicans are terrified of losing the special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff is surging, his campaign raised millions of dollars, and early voting currently favors registered Democrats by 20 points. Desperate to stave off a loss in a traditionally Republican stronghold, GOP interest groups are throwing everything they have at Ossoff. An attack ad […]

The special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District continues to heat up, with massive grassroots organizing and outside groups pouring money and resources into the race. Neither Democratic underdog Jon Ossoff nor pro-Trump culture warrior Karen Handel shows any sign of pulling away with a strong lead, with still more than a month to go […]

In a week already packed with explosive news about the ongoing Russia investigation and Trump’s monstrous budget, Democrats celebrated an incredible — and perhaps prophetic — victory in special elections on Tuesday night. Democrats won control of two Republican-held state legislative seats that should never even have been in contention. The first victory of the […]