Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is term-limited after two terms, removing an incumbent who won her last race by more than 10 points and opening one of the most closely watched … Read more
Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. Wisconsin has not had an open race for governor since 2010, when Scott Walker won the seat Gov. Tony Evers is now vacating. Evers, 73, announced in July 2025 … Read more
Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. Arizona is one of five states where a Democratic governor is on the ballot in a state Donald Trump carried in 2024, and Gov. Katie Hobbs won her first … Read more
Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. Georgia is the only state where a Democratic incumbent senator is defending a seat that Donald Trump carried in 2024, which is why both parties treat this contest as … Read more
Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. North Carolina’s open Senate seat is one of the two or three contests most likely to decide which party controls the chamber next year. Republicans hold a narrow 53-47 … Read more
The House approved limits on congressional stock transactions together with federal voter-ID rules. Here is what the bill would ban, permit and leave unresolved.
A Wisconsin court is considering whether voters may cancel and replace complete absentee ballots already returned before the August 11 primary.
Learn how U.S. campaigns raise and spend money through individual donations, PACs, Super PACs, parties, public funding, and outside groups.
A divided First Circuit left an injunction against Trump’s federal voter-list and mail-ballot executive order in place during appeal.
A federal appeals court paused one block on proposed USPS mail-ballot rules, but a separate injunction still prevents implementation.
What Happened In the final week of June 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice sent letters to officials in three Michigan cities, Detroit, Lansing, and East Lansing, notifying them that federal election monitors will be deployed to polling locations during the state’s August 4 primary. The letters also requested election-related documents from each city. All … Read more
How Redistricting Works Every 10 years, the United States carries out a census, an official count of everyone living in the country. The most recent census was in 2020, and the next is scheduled for 2030. The population numbers from the census trigger a process called reapportionment, in which the 435 seats in the U.S. … Read more
