The ruling party was set to be slaughtered in the 2022 midterm elections—then the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and Senators Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin struck a deal.

The scandal-scarred former governor has dropped precipitously in the polls in his Senate run—and that probably dims the Democrats’ chances.

Kari Lake and other far-right candidates have latched onto a controversy in the Scottsdale school district whipped up by conservative mothers.

That green intern who tried to pass fake electors to Mike Pence was in fact a very seasoned and partisan operative. And increasingly, it’s an issue in the senator’s reelection campaign.

“I don’t think we should be coy. I don’t think we should be abstract,” said the vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association.

Elections in red states may be hard, but they serve as potential laboratories for Democrats to retool their struggles with working-class appeals.

The state Republican Party chairman is a serious extremist. Cheney’s opponent, once anti-Trump, now loves him. Can Cheney hang on?

The Environmental Voter Project wants to turn infrequent voters who care about the environment into a force that can swing elections.

It’s normally a good sign when a political party sheds an embarrassing extremist. This is something different.

Ohio’s primaries are next Tuesday. The putative Democratic Senate candidate says he can win because the Republicans are extremists and radicals.

The centrist congressman ran no TV ads for nearly three weeks—with the primary just one month away.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is expected this June to end women’s constitutional right to abortion. How voters will react in the November elections is less clear.

November keeps inching closer. The best way for Democrats to stave off defeat is to take aim at corporate power.

Sarah Palin is running to represent all of Alaska again. But it wasn’t too long ago that she decided she would rather have money and fame than real work.

Trump saw that his Putin praise was a seriously bad look within the GOP, so he changed his tune. The party is unlikely to punish him at all for the flip-flop.

Governor? Senator? Member of Congress? No, no, and no. The Colorado secretary of state may decide the presidency in 2024.

The chair of Wisconsin’s Democratic Party details how he keeps the right at bay in a crucial swing state. It isn’t easy.

Enthusiasm is at dangerous lows among the constituency that made Joe Biden the Democratic nominee. One group is trying to do something about it.

The Keystone State is the party’s most likely chance at flipping a Senate seat. But Dems are looking at four months of a grueling and potentially rough primary.

Pundits are acting apocalyptic about pandemic education policy and the midterms. The evidence paints a far shakier picture.