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David Patterson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, confirmed on Tuesday to the Fox Business Network that Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes has certified his signatures, and he will be included on the ballot in November.  Grimes

Recent polls indicate that libertarian ideas are gaining traction among voters, especially with “Millennials” under the age of 33, a group whose strong support was critical to the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. According to a February

In the first major press conference since his stunning primary victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on June 10, Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Republican nominee Dave Brat focused on the unifying “mainstream American principles we all believe in.”

Just days after he criticized ads by outside groups attacking Congressman James Lankford (R-OK), retiring Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has criticized a new ad by a different outside group attacking T.W. Shannon, Lankford’s opponent in the June 24 Oklahoma U.S.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) failed to congratulate or even acknowledge Dave Brat in his concession speech last night. Neither did Cantor offer Brat his support in November’s general election against his Democratic opponent, or call Brat to concede

Late Tuesday evening, conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham savored David Brat’s historic upset victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Republican primary. “This was a cataclysmic upending of the old Republican Guard.  A

Lindsey Graham coasted to an easy victory in the South Carolina U.S. Senate Republican primary Tuesday, avoiding a runoff by surpassing the 50-percent margin required by law to claim the nomination.  With 71 percent of the precincts reporting, Graham had

On Friday, the Daily Caller released a poll that showed House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) lead over Tea Party-backed challenger Dave Brat in the Republican primary in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District has dropped to 13 points just days before

On Thursday the payday lenders trade association and its largest member company, Advance America, filed a lawsuit in federal district court to end the Department of Justice’s controversial Operation Choke Point. The case argued that the defendant agencies (the Federal

RICHMOND, Virginia–Her surprisingly activist support for the long-shot primary challenger to Eric Cantor is part of a larger plan to shape the GOP, conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. “I think Jeb

On Wednesday two prominent Evangelical Christians criticized House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) assertion that the Dream Act, which would grant citizenship to the children of illegal aliens, is “biblical.” Cantor, who has received criticism for his recent claims that he opposes

GLENN ALLEN, Virginia–Conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham campaigned here with the long-shot primary challenger to Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Randolph-Macon economics professor David Brat, issuing a blistering attack on Cantor’s immigration record. At an evening rally at the Dominion

RICHMOND, Virginia–Ahead of a campaign rally here with radio host Laura Ingraham, the long-shot primary challenger to Majority Leader Eric Cantor is warning that Cantor, who recently touted himself as an anti-amnesty warrior in campaign literature, will revert back to

New filings showed Majority Leader Eric Cantor spent about $1 million in the seven weeks between April 1 and May 21 against a long-shot primary challenger, Randolph-Macon economics professor David Brat, while Brat continued to hammer Cantor on the immigration

The Justice Department’s “Operation Choke Point” is so flagrantly illegal it cannot continue in any form under the law, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Charman Darrell Issa’s staff said in a new report, setting up a constitutional confrontation

Eric Cantor’s primary challenger David Brat ripped the Majority Leader as “the number one Republican supporter of amnesty” in a dramatic press conference steps away from a rival event by a liberal Democrat intended to paint Cantor as the face

Is it a campaign flier for Majority Eric Leader Eric Cantor, or Rep. Steve King (R-IA)? Cantor, whose primary race against a political newcomer, Randolph Macon economic professor David Brat, has improbably garnered national attention, has sent thousands of voters

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who since 1986 has falsely claimed she has Native American ancestry despite having no credible evidence to support that assertion, joined 49 fellow senators who signed a letter to the NFL on Thursday urging the league to

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is taking fire from both sides in the heated immigration debate, facing a primary challenger ripping him for supporting amnesty while liberal activists try to portray him as the face of Republican intransigence on the

The $60 million high school football stadium that opened in an affluent Dallas suburb less than two years ago has been deemed “not safe,” and will be closed for the 2014 season. Though a plan for repairs is under way,

Despite an eleventh-hour political attack engineered by the Democratic Party of Oregon, Dr. Monica Wehby easily won the Oregon U.S. Senate Republican primary on Tuesday, defeating second place “Homeless to Harvard” attorney Jason Conger. With 51 percent of the precincts

First, the Justice Department began targeting them with “Operation Choke Point.” Now a new non-profit group is fighting back. The new group, the United States Consumer Coalition (USCC), has launched a “whistleblower website” asking for the secretive program’s victims to

On Friday, four days before the polls were set to open in Tuesday’s Republican U.S. Senate primary in Oregon, a City of Portland police report about an embarrassing, year-old stalking incident involving GOP frontrunner Dr. Monica Wehby suddenly appeared as

Former Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH) appears to be making good on his vows to “crush” the Tea Party.  A longtime ally of Speaker John Boehner, LaTourette is a driving force behind the outside national groups that have spent more than

The American Chemical Council (ACC) will make a $289,000 independent expenditure for local network and cable television ads in support of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) during the three weeks leading up to the June 10 Republican primary in Virginia’s

When Randolph-Macon College economics professor David Brat announced a challenge to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Republican primary several months ago, many wrote his campaign off as a quixotic whim that would go nowhere.

The Tea Party, left for dead by the mainstream media only a week ago, roared back to life on Tuesday with two big Republican primary victories in Nebraska and West Virginia. All eyes now turn to Mississippi’s June 3 Republican

Alex Mooney, the Tea Party-backed candidate in the crowded Republican primary in West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, easily won his party’s nomination in Tuesday’s election. With 85 percent of the precincts reporting, Mooney leads with 35 percent of the vote. Pharmacist

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor faced a raucous crowd Saturday, including loud boos and heckles from Tea Party activists presumably supporting his long-shot primary opponent, professor Dave Brat.  Cantor’s speech occured while the votes were being counted in Tea Party-backed

Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) was the first lawmaker to vote against Speaker John Boehner on the House floor in January 2013. Now the GOP Establishment, and especially allies of Boehner, are looking to take him out. Top GOP power brokers

In the war between the GOP Establishment and the Tea Party, Tuesday was a bloody day for the Tea Party. GOP Establishment candidates coasted to victories in the North Carolina senate race, a key House primary there, and in Ohio,

North Carolina state house speaker Thom Tillis vanquished two conservative opponents in the state’s GOP Senate primary, coming in above the 40 percent threshold he needed to avoid a runoff. With 83 percent of precincts reporting, Tillis had 45 percent

The GOP Senate primary in North Carolina Tuesday is the first real test of the battle between the Republican Establishment and the Tea Party of the 2014 election cycle, but the Establishmen’s pick, North Carolina state House Speaker Tillis, is

An unexpected new player has entered the advertising wars in advance of tomorrow’s North Carolina Republican U.S. Senate primary. The campaign of incumbent Democratic Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC), who voted for Obamacare and continues to support it, has paid for

The Republican Senate primary in Oregon on May 20 is emerging as one of the most interesting races in the country. The seat, currently held by one-term incumbent Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), has suddenly come in play, at least in the

Two hundred fifty left-wing Evangelicals, part of a coalition that calls itself the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), swarmed Capitol Hill last week to lobby an estimated 100 Republican Congressmen in support of amnesty for illegal aliens.  A year ago, the same