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Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. KENNARD — Donald Lamb was fighting a losing battle against his ever-growing East Texas lawn when his neighbor, City Council member James Westbrook, approached him. Westbrook was ready …
Sign up for the We the Texans newsletter to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas. As they head into a Republican primary runoff for an open congressional seat, state Rep. Craig Goldman and business owner John O’Shea each tried to convince …
The day after Rep. Katie Porter flipped an Orange County congressional seat blue in 2018, she set her sights on what would be a defining issue in her congressional career: campaign finance reform. Money in politics, namely campaigns, is what she focused on after losing the primary for California’s open U.S. Senate seat last month …
Washington — The campaign of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disowned language used in a fundraising email on Thursday that referred to those facing charges in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as “activists” who have been “stripped of their Constitutional liberties.” The email urged supporters to sign a petition calling for the …
After weeks of ballot counting, the Los Angeles County registrar’s office has certified the results of the March 5 primary election for races in which L.A. County voters got to cast ballots. A total of 1,641,715 ballots were counted, which translated to a voter turnout rate of 28.9% in L.A. County, according to the registrar’s …
On Friday afternoon, the Los Angeles County registrar certified results from the March 5 primary election cementing the victories of three incumbent county supervisors and confirming that District Attorney George Gascón and challenger Nathan Hochman will proceed to a November runoff. A total of 1,641,715 ballots were processed with 28.9% of eligible L.A. County voters …
The very independent Lisa Murkowski. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski is pretty clearly the Republican senator who is least aligned with the GOP. Her voting record is generally regarded as less conservative than any other Republican senator’s with the possible exception of her friend Susan Collins of Maine (Collins and Murkowski …
First Lady Jill Biden and her daughter Ashley Biden highlighted the Biden administration’s efforts to fight on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community at the Human Rights Campaign’s 2024 Los Angeles dinner on Saturday evening, March 23. “Thanks to our president, marriage equality is now a law, he ended the ban on bisexual and gay men …
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden touched down at Burbank Airport on Friday to make a withdrawal from the reelection campaign ATM known as Los Angeles’ wealthy Democratic families. She and her daughter Ashley Biden arrived around 4:30 p.m. on a bright and breezy afternoon and were greeted on the tarmac by L.A.Mayor Karen Bass, Burbank …
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