Democrats

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who has not decided whether he will next year run for reelection, make a third-party bid for the presidency, or retire, has raised $1.2 million in the second quarter of 2023. The Epoch Times obtained the fundraising figures along with other numbers showing that the Manchin campaign has $10.7 million cash on hand and $2.2 million...

President Joe Biden’s 2024 presidential campaign has raised over $72 million in the recent quarter, which is greater than his rivals but falls short compared to previous presidential campaigns. “I’m proud to say that Team Biden-Harris has raised more than $72 million since April. To all the grassroots donors who pitched in a few bucks at a time—thank you. This...

All of the top Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump excepted, braved questions from journalist Tucker Carlson at a summit in Des Moines, Iowa. While some met with a lukewarm or, at times, unfriendly reception from the very Christian audience, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was most definitely not among them. He even got a standing ovation. “It would seem that we’re...

The House has adopted its version of the proposed $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 defense budget and dispatched it to the Senate, where many of the “culture war” amendments conservatives successfully attached to the must-pass annual appropriations package are likely to be rejected by the Democrat-led chamber. Do so at your own risk, House Freedom Caucus members and associated Republicans...

Fly View Productions/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a victory for reason, truth, and reality, a Kansas state judge has ruled that driver’s licenses in the Heartland state must show the actual biological sex of the person to whom the license is issued instead of his preferred (read: imagined) “gender identity.” The ruling comes as the result of a lawsuit filed by...

If you want to get a reaction from an Iowan, say you’re tired of having their caucuses select a president for the entire country. You’ll get an earful of reasons that just ain’t so faster than you can say “pork queen.” Iowa’s position on the election calendar has given the state’s caucus-goers an early thumbs up—or down—on presidential hopefuls since...

Commentary Complaints about our two-party system are nothing new and parties other than Democrat and Republican have popped up from time to time, occasionally with memorable names such as the Bull Moose Party. Even so, they disappear pretty rapidly, the conventional wisdom being that the only thing that really works is the same old, same old. Further, we look across...

LANSING, Mich.—Former Democratic state Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. on Monday announced a campaign for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, one of the nation’s most competitive House districts. Mr. Hertel and another ex-state senator, Republican Tom Barrett, who launched his second run for the seat Sunday night, are the first to announce bids for the seat of U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.)....

Roy Herron, a longtime Tennessee state lawmaker and former chairperson of the state Democratic Party, died Sunday from injuries sustained in a jet ski accident. He was 69. Herron died at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, according to a statement from his family. He had been hospitalized since a July 1 collision with another jet ski on Kentucky Lake, in...

AP Images Portions of an email exchange involving Joe Goffman, principal deputy assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other EPA staffers including Dan Utech, the EPA’s chief of staff, appear to show that President Biden is again considering declaring a climate emergency for the United States. Climate alarmists believe that such a proclamation would give the president...

The first-in-the-nation GOP caucus has officially been scheduled after Iowa Republicans gathered Saturday to vote unanimously on the date. “The Republican Party of Iowa is proud to announce that we will officially hold our 2024 First-in-the-Nation Caucus on January 15, 2024,” Jeff Kaufmann, chair of the Republican Party of Iowa, said in a statement. Like in past primary cycles, the...

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sent a letter to Target on Wednesday warning the corporation that its recent “Pride” campaign merchandise and donation efforts ran the risk of violating state child-protection laws. It also cited concerns about parental rights and neglect of fiduciary duties. “State child-protection laws penalize the ‘sale or distribution … of obscene matter,'” the letter states (pdf),...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) announced he will not be running for retiring Sen. Ben Cardin’s (D-Md.) Senate seat in 2024 and will run for reelection instead. “At this moment, I believe the best way for me to make the greatest difference in American politics in 2024 and beyond is this: to run for reelection to the House of Representatives in Maryland’s...

Luis Miguel It can be tempting to fall into defeatism, but the dissident Right is advancing promisingly at a crucial time throughout the western world.  Both in the United States and in Europe, the establishment Right is collapsing in on itself as voters realize that it has neither the answers for the challenges nations now face, nor the stamina to...

As the Biden administration’s plan to erase more than $400 billion in federal student loan debt failed at the U.S. Supreme Court, both Democrats and Republicans are saying they have an answer to help with the looming student loan default crisis. To fulfill his campaign promise, President Joe Biden has pledged that he will still push through a blanket student...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has ditched plans to pursue a $100 million private school voucher program in the state’s annual spending plan amid a deadlock between Republican and Democratic leaders. Mr. Shapiro announced the decision to pull the program to pay for tuition at private and religious schools—known as the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success scholarship program—in a July 5 statement. His...

An Oregon law that forbids recording in public without consent runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, a U.S. court has ruled. Oregon law 165.540, first enacted in 1955 and subsequently broadened to bar secret recording of conversations, is unconstitutional, Judge Sandra Ikuta, a George W. Bush appointee writing for the majority in the 2–1 ruling, said. Exceptions to the...

lucky-photographer/iStock/Getty Images Plus “Decency,” Jill Biden told us on October 27, 2020, “is on the ballot.” Clan Biden, we were to believe, would bring modesty, decorum, and grand manners back to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. What “Dr.” Jill didn’t say: The First Family would bring cocaine, too, mostly likely courtesy of drug-addicted and first son Hunter, he of the famous laptop. And...

Georgia’s Secretary of State says political parties must address their losing candidates’ claims of election fraud. “That is not healthy for America, and so we need to really confront people that are just trying to tear apart our social fabric and not accept the results of the election,” Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, said. Whether it’s former President Donald...

Ever since Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to charges of misdemeanor tax evasion and the purchase of a firearm while addicted to drugs, Republicans, starting with Donald Trump, have denounced favorable treatment for the Biden family while, the Republicans claim, the Justice Department singles out the former president. In addition to comparing apples and oranges, they offer another use of the...