The 2026 midterm season begins in earnest on Tuesday with two of the nation’s most consequential Senate primaries playing out in Texas.

The Supreme Court has sided with Republicans in ruling that the boundaries of the only GOP-held congressional district in New York City do not not need to be redrawn for the 2026 elections, despite a court ruling that the district is unfair to Black and Hispanic residents.

From school funding to parental rights, Texas primary ballot propositions let voters influence party platforms and legislative agendas.

Republicans hope to flip the Rio Grande Valley state House seat, long held by Democrats.

Democratic candidates have notched a series of wins in recent special elections — but a new AP-NORC poll finds views of the Democratic Party among rank-and-file Democrats have not bounced back since President Donald Trump’s victory in 2024.

The House has voted to slap back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada.

The poll, released Wednesday, also showed Sid Miller and Don Huffines with comfortable leads in their Republican primary bids for agriculture commissioner and comptroller.

Both John Cornyn and Ken Paxton argue they’re best equipped to carry the torch for Republicans and fight off Democratic headwinds in local races.

Cain, a state lawmaker, and Mealer, a former Harris County judge candidate, have consolidated much of the fundraising and endorsements in the 9th Congressional District’s Republican primary.

The Supreme Court has allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a plea from state Republicans and the Trump administration.

In a statement, Abbott said Texans deserve a commissioner focused on Texas agriculture and “with zero tolerance for criminality.”

President Donald Trump is fighting a two-front war at the outset of this year’s midterm campaigns, working to prevent Democratic victories while also attempting to purge the Republican Party of the few remaining members who have defied him.

New polling from Gallup shows that Americans are increasingly identifying as political independents and rejecting the labels of the two major political parties.

The Department of Justice has expanded its review of documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to 5.2 million as it also expands the number of attorneys trying to comply with a law mandating their release.

Dallas County Republican Chairman Allen West cited cost, staffing, and logistics concerns for the decision.

Vice President JD Vance says the conservative movement should welcome anyone who loves America.

Conservative influencers clashed at Turning Point USA's annual youth conference over the future of President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement.

Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to Donald Trump.

Some county GOP officials said the president’s pardon could complicate their plans to unseat the Laredo Democrat in South Texas’ battleground 28th Congressional District.

Chile’s ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast has secured a stunning victory in the presidential election, defeating the candidate of the center-left governing coalition and setting the stage for the country’s most right-wing government in 35 years of democracy.

Republicans in the Indiana Senate are facing threats as President Trump pushes for lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional map.

Rep. Darrell Issa tells the Associated Press he isn’t moving to Texas to run for Congress.

President Donald Trump and top Republicans are making a last-ditch push to prevent embarrassment in a hotly contested Tennessee special election for Congress.

Prominent Houston Attorney Tony Buzbee confirmed his firm is representing an unidentified female victim in a case involving alleged sexual misconduct.

Prominent Houston Attorney Tony Buzbee confirmed his firm is representing an unidentified female victim in a case involving alleged sexual misconduct.

After months of resisting calls to release the files, President Donald Trump signaled this week that he will sign the bill if it reaches his desk.

At a Texas Tribune Festival event on Thursday, the Beaumont Republican said his opposition to Trump and his agenda informed his decision to give up the speaker’s gavel last year.

Speaking at the Texas Tribune Festival, Democratic Rep. Donna Howard acknowledged that Republicans have unified around Speaker Dustin Burrows to the point that he “may not need us” to retain the gavel.

A legislative package to end the government shutdown appears on track.

The Senate has taken the first step to end the government shutdown after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies.

California voters have approved a plan to overhaul the state’s congressional district boundaries, giving Democrats a boost in their bid to win the U.S. House majority next year.

Democrats are dominating the first major Election Day since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Concerns that antisemitism is on the rise among Republicans burst to the surface this weekend at a meeting in Las Vegas.

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster.

President Donald Trump's pick to lead an office charged with protecting whistleblowers appears to be in jeopardy.

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who was slated to serve more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft charges.

Democrats are calling on President Donald Trump to get more involved with negotiations to end the government shutdown.

An unprecedented number of states are considering redrawing their congressional district lines mid-decade.

The Texas GOP will vote Saturday to possibly bar some state legislators from running in the 2026 primary, despite repeated Texas Supreme Court rulings saying they cannot.

Republicans have seized on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a bid to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally.

Nebraska officials have missed a deadline to grant licenses to marijuana growers under a new medical marijuana law approved by voters.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are “marching the country” into a government shutdown.

Republicans note that some of the districts they intend to flip were redrawn to become majority-Hispanic. Democrats say the GOP made sure to add Hispanic Texans who are unlikely to vote.

The message was clear and concise from Harris County Republicans, “We live in Houston, we don’t want Houston to have a similar situation,” said Cindy Siegel, Chairman of the Republican Party of Harris County.

A judge in Utah has ruled that the state must proceed right away with redrawing the state's congressional districts.

A judge has ruled that Georgia's Fulton County must pay $10,000 daily until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board.

Donald Trump was the Republican Party outsider in 2016.

President Donald Trump is vowing more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own.

Included in the Republican Party’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts is funding to power President Donald Trump's deportation agenda.

President Donald Trump is increasing pressure on Republican-led states to redraw congressional boundaries.

A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”.

Vice President JD Vance made the Trump administration’s first big pitch to sell the public on President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy package in the swing political turf of northeastern Pennsylvania.

Donald Trump has made tax cuts a central part of his political legacy.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina says he won't seek reelection.

Terry Virts, a former astronaut known for his travels in space, officially announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas as a Democrat.

In a recent court appearance, George faced legal challenges related to a social media hoax and money laundering charges.

This shift adds to a notable trend in Texas politics, where several state lawmakers have changed party affiliations over the years. What do you think about this political shift?

Fort Bend County Judge KP George has announced a shift to the Republican Party.

Storey Rubio plans to launch her campaign by attacking the Republican incumbent as a “spineless moderate” who has not taken a hard enough line on border security.

The Trump administration has accused North Carolina’s election board of violating federal law by failing to ensure that registration records of some applicants contained identifying numbers.

House Republicans are in the final rounds of negotiations over a sweeping budget plan that has been significantly influenced by President Donald Trump's priorities.

Conservatives have blocked President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill.

The bill would cap out-of-state political donations to a candidate or lawmaker to $5,000 for a statewide election, $2,500 for a district office and $1,000 for a county office.

The Republican Party is trying to figure out what it stands for in terms of economic policy during the second Trump administration.

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig is the latest Minnesota Democrat to enter an increasingly competitive race for the U.S. Senate seat held by the retiring Sen. Tina Smith.

Iowa looked a lot different in 2010, when Republican Kim Reynolds was first elected to statewide office.

The Texas House also approved more money for schools in a bipartisan vote.

The Justice Department has charged a man with vandalizing a Tesla dealership in New Mexico and setting fire to the headquarters of the state Republican Party.

The Senate has produced the quickest top-level Cabinet confirmation process in the last 20 years under new Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota.

House Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself in a familiar jam, with conservative Republican holdouts stalling action on President Donald Trump’s “big” bill of tax breaks and spending reductions.

When the results for Tuesday's special election in Florida came in, Democrat Gay Valimont had fallen short of winning a congressional seat that few thought she had a chance to claim.

A fire that damaged the entryway to the New Mexico Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque is being investigated as arson.

Federal authorities are investigating an early morning fire that damaged the entryway to the headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Wisconsin’s spring election Tuesday for state Supreme Court, state schools chief and a proposed constitutional amendment requiring photo ID for voting will be the first major indication of the state’s political climate since Donald Trump recaptured the White House.

Angry over the crush of court rulings against the Trump administration, Republicans in Congress are trying to slap back at the federal judiciary.

Wisconsin voters are casting the first ballots in a pivotal state Supreme Court race that will determine whether liberal or conservative justices control the highest court in the crucial presidential battleground.

A new AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll shows that most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders do not agree with the strategy of putting entire federal agencies on the chopping block, nor are they broadly on board with mass layoffs of federal workers.

A group backed by billionaire Elon Musk is behind a new set of deceptive attack ads and text messages targeting voters just weeks ahead of the election for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court.

As Donald Trump prepares to address a joint session of Congress, protest groups are gathering at parks, statehouses and other public grounds to assail his presidency as dangerous and un-American.

Conservatives who filled a ballroom a few blocks from the White House have lamented that the United States is abandoning the fundamental ideals that forged a great nation.

A group of young engineers is playing a vital role in billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s effort to slash the federal bureaucracy through his Department of Government Efficiency.

Republican senators pushed a $340 billion budget framework to passage over Democratic objections after a nearly all-night vote.

President Donald Trump’s early moves, such as trying to slash the federal government and imposing tariffs on key allies, are testing how far Republicans are willing to go in supporting his supercharged “Make America Great Again” agenda.

President Donald Trump’s pledge to help make Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream a reality is viewed with skepticism by many prominent Black and Hispanic civil rights leaders.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling state lawmakers into a special session to help carry out President-elect Donald Trump’s promises for a swift crackdown on immigration.

Allison lost his primary last year, after being targeted by his party over his vote to kill school vouchers.

Some lawmakers emotionally recalled the violence.

Elon Musk’s role in taking down a bipartisan budget deal shows his ascendance as a political force.

Sen. Mitt Romney has given his final remarks after seeing the Republican Party for which he was once the standard bearer drastically transform under Donald Trump.

Republican lawmakers are pushing back against criticism from some Democrats that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead U.S. intelligence services is “compromised” by her comments supportive of Russia and a meeting with an ally of that country.

Working-class voters helped Republicans make steady election gains this year and expanded a coalition that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members.

Democrats fell short again in wresting away swing-state prize North Carolina from Republicans in the presidential election.

After a resounding election victory, President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans say they have a mandate to govern.

Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party’s sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump.

Republicans landed historic victories in Pennsylvania, winning the battleground state’s valuable presidential electoral votes, posting a two-seat gain in its U.S. House delegation and sweeping all four statewide offices on the ballot, including a U.S. Senate seat.

The former president captured 55% of Latino voters in the state, according to exit polls. He also won 14 out of the 18 counties within 20 miles of the border, a number that doubled his 2020 performance in the Latino-majority region.

Some state officials are pushing back on what they’re calling “the Department of Justice’s attempt to interfere with Texas Elections," while others argue it will ensure "fair and accurate" results.

Senate Republicans vying to replace longtime leader Mitch McConnell have been crossing the country to campaign and fundraise for colleagues, making their final arguments before an important upcoming Senate vote.

A national campaign is backing ballot measures in six states to end partisan primaries.

Democrats in Lubbock and Amarillo hope Kamala Harris’ candidacy and a backlash to abortion laws will help make their long-held vision of a blue wave a reality.