Politics

Straight-ticket voting, linked to voter turnout, might prove especially important in 2020: Democrats need Pennsylvania if they want to win the White House.

The draft maps, obtained by The Intercept, illustrate how Republican mapmakers can secretly calibrate maps to have a deep partisan bias, even when they follow the rules.

Formerly incarcerated people questioned Democratic candidates about their positions on the criminal justice system. But only three candidates showed up.

To attack Vindman, Republicans resorted to an old smear tactic: questioning the loyalty of a citizen who fled Soviet persecution of Jews as a child.

After meeting with Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Richard Neal, Trumka assured the Congressional Progressive Caucus that he is on the same page as House leadership.

The chair of DCCC, with help from Joe Crowley, has privately argued that approving Trump’s free trade deal is important for vulnerable House Democrats.

A co-chair of the Nov. 5 event told The Intercept he's happy Biden is “finally” taking PAC money. “He has to, you know, you gotta raise some funds.”

Gottheimer and Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., are scheduled to appear at the fundraiser, hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce PAC for the Problem Solvers Caucus.

It’s a lazy, cynical rewriting of history to pretend these groups have nothing to do with the U.S., or were never backed by the U.S., in their current form.

A mailer, made by a coalition of construction unions and big pharma, claims that the drug-pricing bill would “eliminate millions of American jobs.”