39-year-old Andrew Gillum has been declared the winner of the Democratic gubernatorial primary, upsetting centrist political scion Gwen Graham. At 9:15 PM Eastern Time, with 5,212 of 5,968 precincts reporting, the Associated…
Rebecca (Bekah) Halat, who ran an unsuccessful campaign in a Republican primary for state senate in Alaska, is also an alleged welfare thief. Earlier this month, the Alaska Office of Special Prosecution…
An audio recording purportedly of Geye Hamby, superintendent of Buford City Schools in Georgia, suggests Hamby is a racist who frequently uses the n-word. Hamby is accused of racial discrimination and using…
(EDITOR’S NOTE, 8/26/18, 1:14 AM ET: Our calculation of Penn Waste’s approximate tax liability in an earlier version of this article was initially found to be incorrect and we have since corrected…
Elections officials in a rural Georgia county are facing massive blowback over a plan that could disenfranchise thousands of voters just months before a high-profile election. The proposed closure of seven of…
In Michigan’s , every candidate on the left praised and supported teachers. A candidate on the Republican ticket, on the other hand, once compared them to pigs. Lisa Posthumus Lyons, who Republican…
14-year-old Ethan Sonneborn is too young to vote, but that isn’t stopping him from running to be the next Governor of Vermont. Youth activism has been on the rise in 2018. After…
Mandela Barnes is running in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin. But local news thought he was either invisible or dead. On Monday, Madison365 reported that at least three local…
Christine Hallquist will be the first transgender candidate for Governor. The Victory Fund, a PAC that supports LBGT candidates, called her “a game changer.” With 49 percent precincts in, the New York…
In the crowded Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor, all candidates are running against Scott Walker’s record. But Mahlon Mitchell stands out in the momentum he’s built in the home stretch of his…