(The Center Square) – Oklahoma voters head to the polls Tuesday to take the first step toward filling the U.S. Senate seat vacated by newly installed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Both parties will pick their nominees, with U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., leading the Republican field in polling, before the two winners meet in the Nov. 3 general election.
(The Center Square) – Four candidates are vying for Tommy Tuberville’s open U.S. Senate seat in Tuesday’s Democratic and Republican primary runoff elections in Alabama. The winners of the two races will face each other in the general election on Nov. 3, in which voters will decide who becomes the next U.S. senator from Alabama.
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(The Center Square) - Voters in Iowa will head to the polls Tuesday to elect candidates in several high-profile primary races that will be watched across the country.
Nearly 100 Democrats are vying for the party’s nomination in the May primary to be the next, or returning, Oregon state representative or senator in 75 races across the state. About a third of the candidates are incumbents who are running unchallenged, and who will sail smoothly to November general election ballots where most will […]
(The Center Square) – A Republican super PAC announced a significant investment in Michigan’s open U.S. Senate race, underscoring the state’s status as a key battleground in the 2026 election cycle.
(The Center Square) – Seven weeks into the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, President Donald Trump is working with Republican congressional leaders to craft a party-line budget reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies.
(The Center Square) -- U.S. senators collectively spend more than a million taxpayer dollars each year for pricey flights on private planes for themselves and their staff, even though Senate rules greatly discourage the practice, an investigation by The Center Square found.
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Senate agreed to fund the Department of Homeland Security early Friday, without including funds for ICE and Border Patrol.Â
Republicans during Oregon’s 2026 legislative session repeatedly criticized Democrats, who hold the majority in the Legislature, for not working across the aisle on measures such as moving the date of a gas tax referendum and policies they said conflict with President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration agenda. Democrats hold 18 of 30 seats in the […]
