The massive Democratic majority in the U.S. House and Senate that was ushered in by a historic blue midterm vote is an ideologically diverse one.

Candidates spent much of the past year differentiating their positions from the mainstream Democratic coalition. The result is a freshman class filled with as many progressive liberals as ...Read more

As U.S. House members pushed for a potential vote Wednesday on whether to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his handling of the Iran war and other alleged “high crimes” against the nation, Hegseth prepared for a fight — with President Donald Trump squarely behind him.

“In the 250 years of our American republic, no secretary of...Read more

The 2026 midterm rout that awarded Democrats decisive majorities in the Senate and House has also sparked interest in the future of the U.S. Supreme Court.

With Democrats securing at least a 54-seat majority in the Senate on Jan. 3, 2027, the window is rapidly closing for President Donald Trump to appoint a new Supreme Court justice ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The leaders of an effort to overhaul how the House deals with sexual misconduct hope their proposal will see action before the end of the 119th Congress, though they’re split on the odds.

Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., chair of the Republican Women’s Caucus, said legislative text is done and is being looked at by the relevant ...Read more

Although it’s difficult to imagine, the Supreme Court looks poised to eliminate the ability for citizens to bring legal action against U.S. Immigration and Customs agents and other federal officers who violate their constitutional rights. Following a hearing for Nielsen vs. Watanabe on Monday, there is every reason to fear that the court’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that she opposes any push to expel outgoing Michigan Democratic U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens after she flipped her Senate endorsement from her former primary rival Abdul El-Sayed to Republican Mike Rogers just before last week's midterm elections.

"We have about three more or two more ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth mounted a combative defense against the impeachment effort against him in Congress, casting the move as a politicized attack on U.S. troops and lawful military operations ordered by President Donald Trump.

“I was proud to execute” Trump’s orders, he said, “and I would do it again.”

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In most races in the midterm elections on Nov. 3, 2026, Americans had only two realistic choices: Democrats and Republicans.

As a scholar of parties and elections, I am often asked why the U.S. has only two major parties, while other democracies offer voters three, four or even five choices. The U.S. system looks weird compared to ...Read more

The law of large numbers in statistics means the greater the sampling size, the truer to the actual values. In politics, the law of large numbers of Democrats elected to the House under Hakeem Jeffries and to the Senate under Chuck Schumer means that the chambers will not be held hostage to a handful of members and the bodies can be truer to the...Read more

U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner has won reelection to Washington’s 5th Congressional District seat, in a race that saw a Democratic challenger get the closest to winning the district in more than 30 years.

With Monday’s vote count, Baumgartner, a Republican from Spokane, led Democrat Carmela Conroy 51.7% to 47.9%.

Earlier vote tallies had ...Read more

DENVER — Democrat Eileen Laubacher declared victory Monday in her race against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a polarizing crusader for the Make America Great Again movement whose apparent defeat in Colorado’s most conservative district is the latest fallout of the blue wave that crashed over President Donald Trump’s coalition last week.

While...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is throwing his support behind the United Nations-authorized Gang Suppression Force, warning Monday that the latest international effort to wrest control of Haiti from the powerful grip of criminal gangs must succeed because Washington has run out of other options.

“If the Gang Suppression Force effort ...Read more

WASHINGTON — LaKesha Womack faced towering odds as an underfunded Democrat making her first run for public office in a North Carolina district that Donald Trump carried by 15 points two years ago.

But as early voting surged in mid-October, she sensed she might pull off an upset over Republican Rep. Tim Moore, the influential former speaker of...Read more

The anonymous satirical art activist group Secret Handshake is at it again — this time erecting a giant golden statue of a seated President Trump rubbing a bare foot. Titled "The Foot Soldier," the statue pokes fun at the president's famous bone spurs — a diagnosis he received in 1968, which led to a medical exemption during the Vietnam War....Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., took to the House floor Monday to unveil a resolution that would impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and a vote on the issue could occur by Wednesday.

A draft resolution that Massie read aloud on the House floor on Monday accused Hegseth of eight violations of law or the Constitution, including that...Read more

Abortion advocates are hopeful that Texas’ newly elected Democratic leaders could mean the state could enact more exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban.

Here’s where the laws currently stand, and what could change when the new leaders, including Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa, are sworn in.

What do current Texas abortion laws say? ...Read more

Democrat Eileen Laubacher declared victory Monday in her race against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a polarizing crusader for the Make America Great Again movement whose defeat in Colorado’s most conservative district is the latest fallout of the blue wave that crashed over President Donald Trump’s coalition last week.

While the Associated ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump offered full-throated support for Pete Hegseth, signaling that the embattled defense secretary’s job was safe for now amid a congressional effort to impeach him for his conduct of the Iran war.

Republican Representative Thomas Massie introduced a measure on Monday to impeach Hegseth, roughly one week ...Read more