In the state constitutional conventions of the Reconstruction South, biracial coalitions of delegates constitutionalized universal public-school systems and kept their constitutions free from ...

The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be removed ...

New York leaders from both parties have roundly condemned Young Republican leaders who traded racist and anti-gay slurs and Nazi jokes in a group chat exposed by the political news site Politico. Some ...

A new federal court filing shows fewer Republican state attorneys general have joined a legal effort defending former President Donald Trump’s latest use of the National Guard—this time in ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt, the current chairman of the National Governors Association, broke with Texas, saying, “Oklahomans would lose their mind” if Illinois sent troops to their red state. By J. David ...

Oregon Republican leaders at the state and federal level are stopping short of calling for National Guard intervention in Portland. In statements and interviews, U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz, Senate ...

As President Donald Trump clashes with Democratic governors over his push to deploy federalized National Guard troops to their cities, several former Republican governors are raising concerns about ...

SAN ANTONIO – Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones will not be sanctioned for soliciting the Democratic National Convention to come to San Antonio after the city’s Ethics Review Board dismissed an ethics complaint ...

Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt is running for the US Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary campaign. The two-term Houston-area ...

Elected officials and some residents voiced support for deploying the National Guard to Memphis to address crime. State Sen. Brent Taylor criticized the Memphis City Council for opposing the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Less than two years ago, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien and Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin nearly came to blows during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee ...

IOWA’S NEWS LEADER ABIGAIL. THANK YOU. THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE LAUNCHED A NEW AD CAMPAIGN TARGETING DEMOCRATS OVER THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. THE AD ACCUSES DEMOCRATS OF SHUTTING ...