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House Republicans are divided over how to move forward after the party’s devastating election losses, with some calling for an overhaul of the current leadership team and others arguing that President Trump bears...

Texas Republicans blamed each other, Trump and a failure to improve the lives of Texans after decades of one-party control of all statewide offices.

Rep. David Valadao is one of the last remaining House Republicans in office who voted to impeach President Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Democrat Randy Villegas will win California's 22nd Congressional District over incumbent David Valadao, ABC News projects.

Democrat William Lawrence defeated freshman Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI) in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District on Wednesday, according to a race call by the Associated Press.

Michigan Republican Rep. Tom Barrett lost his reelection bid to a hard-left challenger on Tuesday in what was the most expensive House race of the cycle.

The race was one of the most closely watched in the nation.

NBC News projects that Lawrence has unseated Barrett, who was running for a second term, in a district Trump carried in 2024.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus formally announced its opposition to the bipartisan permitting bill intended to make it easier to build energy, transmission, and other infrastructure projects across the country....

The Senate further advanced a major infrastructure and energy bill Tuesday night, moving it one step closer to the finish line in the upper chamber. The bill — which seeks to speed up the buildout of energy and other...

Rare bipartisan bill requires data centres to pay for infrastructure, but environmental groups say it falls short.

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Three New York City progressive Democrats are expected to win their midterm congressional races in Tuesday's election.

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Voters in California have rejected a measure to impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on residents with net worth over $1 billion. CNN’s Elex Michaelson reports.

California voters are rejecting a proposal to impose a wealth tax on billionaire residents, marking a major win for tech and business executives, who spent hundreds of millions against the measure, according to a...

California voters have rejected Proposition 40, a proposed one-time 5% tax on the net worth of residents worth more than $1 billion. The measure would have directed most of the revenue toward health care, with...

California voters have rejected a one-time wealth tax on billionaires.

What does Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate win mean for the future of the Democratic Party? His victory is energizing progressives, challenging the Democratic establishment, and raising a new question for 2028: Is this the...

Researchers say a Wikipedia account removed or softened references to controversies involving Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed before his election, though the edits do not prove political coordination.

Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed said some people wanted to make his race a “referendum on me and my name and my faith” in a speech at the Arab American Leadership and Empowerment at National CONNECT Summit in...

Asked why he devoted so much time to Michigan, Jim Clyburn compared the hostility Abdul El-Sayed faced to the struggles of civil rights icon John Lewis, citing Lewis’ beating on the Edmund Pettus Bridge and El-Sayed...

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On Saturday, just days after the midterm elections, thousands of demonstrators flooded Midtown Manhattan to demand Democrat leadership change in Congress.

Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” MS NOW anchor Rachel Maddow said she hopes Democratic lawmakers have a “big fight” over leadership. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said, “Now there is this debate. So Chuck Schumer spent...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told The Washington Sun he already has more than enough support to become majority leader again, saying, “I am going to be elected leader.” It remains unclear what...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he would support Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) for majority leader if he chose to run following the independent saying he would not back Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)...

Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Darializa Avila Chevalier

San Francisco Snubs Pelosi's Pick For A Radical With Creepy Legislative Record San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan (D-CA) conceded the race for the city's open congressional seat to state Sen. Scott Wiener on...

California state lawmaker Scott Wiener appears to have defeated congresswoman Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked successor in her San Francisco congressional district. Democrat Connie Chan said she does not have a “clear...

The candidate former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed to succeed her as San Francisco's representative in Congress lost her race to another Democrat.

Congress stock trades in 2026: how purchases by 10 lawmakers, led by Byron Donalds and Nancy Pelosi, performed against the S&P 500 in WallStPal's ranking

Alex Karp suddenly wants to share his 'private' beliefs after Democrats had a stunning sweep.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the Trump administration went too far with immigration enforcement, despite his company's technology supporting its deportation operations. After Democrats’ midterm victories, Karp has...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp told Politico that he's a lifelong Democrat, and that President Donald Trump mishandled immigration.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is moving away from President Donald Trump after Republicans suffered devastating losses in the midterm elections. Karp signaled his shift to the left in a new interview with Politico at the...

Political analyst Juan Williams named Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia as the 2026 Politician of the Year due to his impactful social media messaging and influence on the midterm elections.

Kamala Harris made democracy a campaign theme, but Washington Democrats now seek to overturn Initiative 638 after voters backed girls sports separation.

Republicans have a lot of things to worry about after their catastrophic 2026 midterm, and one of them might be Jon Ossoff, the newly reelected Democratic senator from Georgia.

Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff led an informal 2028 Democratic presidential straw poll at Crooked Con, despite saying he has no interest in running for president.

Victoria Derbyshire and Katie Zacharia on Newsnight. A BBC presenter was left stunned after Donald Trump’s former press secretary claimed the Republicans’ defeat in the US midterms was “not even a setback” for the...

Kamala Harris Finishes 16th With Under 1% In Progressive 2028 Straw Poll Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness , Former Vice President Kamala Harris drew just 0.6 percent in a 2028 presidential straw poll...

Retired Adm. James Stavridis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO, warned that President Donald Trump’s latest comments about Ukraine point toward a peace deal that would hand Russia a large share of the...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Democrats must focus on enacting their legislative agenda when the new Congress takes power in January following the party’s decisive victories in this week’s midterm...

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) confirmed that he is thinking about running for president in 2028, adding that the country was "finally going to get a new generation on both parties."

Only two days after the midterm elections, allies of Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) launched a new effort Thursday to urge the California House member to run for president in 2028. Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and...

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) this week hailed a new draft committee organized by supporters to help him run for president in 2028, as Democrats begin considering in earnest who the party will push to succeed President...

Campaign focused on cost of living issues and backlash over ICE raids pays dividends for progressive Randy Villegas.

Democratic socialists had another success with Ms. Raman’s ascent to the Los Angeles mayoralty. But she is no sure bet to advance the group’s priorities.

Asked what went wrong, Bass pointed to a broader wave of voter frustration and demands for change.

Raman’s colleagues all opposed her run for mayor. Now some promise ‘full support’ Los Angeles Times Raman’s win triggers surge of optimism among advocates of transit and safer streets in LA LAist Nithya Raman...

Nithya Raman taps into frustration with economic and political status quo to become mayor of the second-largest US city.