New York City voters turned out in record numbers for the first two days of early voting in the city's mayoral election, as ...

Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner for mayor of New York City, has built his lead in part by relying on a huge ground-game ...

Virginia Democrats are taking steps to redraw their state’s U.S. House districts, hoping to boost their party’s chances in ...

Trump and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

With just more than one year left before Election Day 2026, the race for control of the House seems to be a toss-up while the ...

President Donald Trump has granted clemency to six people in NC, plus those convicted of crimes surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

Virginia is shaping up as the latest battleground in a rare and widening mid-decade redistricting war instigated by President ...

Gerrymandering not only dilutes voters’ voices, it leads to dysfunction in Congress. North Carolina just made that worse. | ...

Observer readers comment on White House renovations, Charlotte police, NC legislative inaction, redistricting, MAGA, ‘No ...

Tony Wilt, a MAGA in the middle of a hotly contested re-election for his 34th House District seat, doesn’t want to have to go ...

From the onset, supporters of California’s mid-cycle redistricting plan have called it a “response” to Republicans.

Chuck Schumer's plan to bank on safe establishment candidates in 2026 was divisive within the party — before damaging ...