While reproductive rights activists worry about the future of abortion rights in the state, some candidates say voters are particularly focused on the issue. With the passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18 and President… Read More »Candidates talk about importance of abortion in state senate races

U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján maintained a double-digit lead in the race for an open U.S. Senate seat according to a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling for NM Political Report. The poll showed that Luján led Republican Mark Ronchetti 51… Read More »Luján leads Ronchetti by 10 points in open U.S. Senate race

Unless Democrats win both the White House and the Senate in November, abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is about to finish his project of remaking the federal judiciary from top to bottom. The… Read More »Mitch McConnell’s legacy is a conservative Supreme Court shaped by his calculated audacity

(The Center Square) – North Carolina incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis is being challenged by Democrat Cal Cunningham, the Constitution Party’s Kevin Hayes and Libertarian Shannon Bray in the November election. Tillis was elected to the U.S. Senate in… Read More »North Carolina U.S. Senate preview: Tillis faces 3 challengers

When Richard Nixon praised his wife’s “respectable Republican cloth coat” in his 1952 Checkers speech, her clothes were not the point. Rather, Nixon drew a direct line from a coat to the values he proclaimed – frugality, integrity, public service… Read More »The clothes make the candidate: The sartorial politics of this year’s key Senate races

The fight between policymakers intent on lowering prescription drug prices and the drugmakers who keep raising them intensified Thursday, as a slew of Republican senators threatened to side with manufacturers against legislation supported by their own committee chairman and president.… Read More »GOP Senators Distance Themselves From Grassley And Trump’s Efforts To Cut Drug Prices

Before U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and his Democratic challenger, MJ Hegar, meet for their first official debate, we caught up with each of them virtually to see what they had to say on some of the issues important to Texans. This… Read More »Watch John Cornyn and MJ Hegar debate the pandemic, police reform and voting

On any given weekday afternoon in Albuquerque just after 4 p.m., on KIVA-FM, listeners can hear the brief hit song from the late 1990s, You Get What You Give, followed by the booming and conservative voice of Eddy Aragon. Aragon makes it… Read More »ABQ radio station owner considering a run for Senate

Despite being laid off, Justin and Terina Sciarrotta have been able to pay the bills. Justin, a union stagehand at a studio producing big shows for a television network, and Terina, a personal trainer at a gym, have been collecting… Read More »New York Jobless Face New Woes With End of $600 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance