A little more than a week after socialist New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani took the reins of the nation’s largest city, voters in Seattle elected a socialist that has been compared to Mamdani to lead the West Coast’s fifth-largest city by population.  Katie Wilson, a progressive activist who operates a small nonprofit called the Transit Riders Union, defeated Democratic Mayor Bruce Harrell in an election so tight...

A handful of Democrats defended the far-left portion of their base upset over Democrat Senators caving to Republicans to end the government shutdown.  “I think they are rightfully disappointed. At the end of the day, we took on this fight for more than 40 days to make healthcare more affordable, being one of the primary goals that we had in this fight and to see us give in...

With the 2025 elections fading into the rearview mirror, the campaign spotlight moves 100% towards next year’s midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending their fragile House majority and their control of the Senate. And as this month’s elections showcased, the economy will once again be uppermost on the minds of voters. How both parties handle the ‘affordability’ issue will likely impact whether Republicans can regain their standing...