2018 elections

Scores of Hollywood celebrities celebrated the success of left-wing candidates in Tuesday’s midterm elections, after the Democratic Party won back control of the House of Representatives from Republicans. 

China’s state-run Global Times took a look at the 2018 U.S. election on Tuesday and found the Democrat Party coming up short on policy because it relies too heavily upon identity politics.

Three of four crucial House races in Virginia are tightening, according to the latest polling.

Advocates qualified a 2020 ballot measure to erode California’s Proposition 13 protections against unlimited property tax increases by splitting the tax roll to spike business taxes by up to $10.5 billion.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been hitting the campaign trail, trying to clinch more Democrat seats in the House that would see her return to being House Speaker and to Democratic-launched investigations into the Trump administration.

Hollywood celebrities from Rob Reiner to Lena Dunham praised pop star Taylor Swift after her endorsement of Democratic candidates in Tennessee this week.

After losing the war to defeat Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats are thinking about becoming even “more ruthless,” reports the far-left Politico.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) just became the number one recipient of lobbyist cash during the 2018 election cycle.

TBS late-night host Samantha Bee announced the launch of a political mobile app game geared toward ginning up turnout among young voters ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is leading as the GOP nominee for Kansas governor in the latest poll ahead of the August 7 primary.

The latest batch of Axios/Survey Monkey polls shows that Democrats are in real danger of losing three U.S. Senate seats, which means they have no chance of capturing that chamber in 2018.

Sen. Bernie Sander (I-VT) declared in a New York Times interview on Friday that President Trump’s agenda will be “dead” if Democrats win the majority in the House or Senate in 2018.

Two Texas Democrat candidates, who lost their respective races by razor-thin margins in the March 2018 Primary, are challenging results in a new lawsuit. It alleges the winning Democrats committed voter fraud in a county already fraught with investigations into alleged mail ballot irregularities.

Media outlets and international groups have condemned former army chief and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s reelection victory on Thursday, calling it a “sham” for including only a meager opposition presence and obstacles to getting on the ballot.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit Thursday against Harris County, Texas, for allegedly failing to disclose noncitizen registered voter records as required under federal law.

California Governor Jerry Brown blasted critics of his cherished high-speed rail project in a speech to labor leaders in Sacramento on Monday: “This is bullshit … “I’m so tired of all the nonsense that I read in the paper and you hear from other politicians.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent new cease and desist letters to two more public school districts Friday. The letters included examples of advocacy campaigns from the recent statewide March primary election that allegedly violated the state’s education code.

Progressive Democrat billionaire and environmental activist Tom Steyer believes California’s nearly 10 million millennials are the key to seeing a Democrat-controlled Congress, and he is reportedly prepared to spend at least $3.5 million of his own money to achieve it.

Amid accusations of “political advocacy” leveled against several Texas public school districts by Attorney General Ken Paxton, emails obtained from one jurisdiction under review highlight commentary advocating for political party switching in primary elections and the promotion of a single slate of candidates–all on an official communication network.

Amanda Renteria, Hillary Clinton’s national political director in the 2016 presidential race, insists that she is not a tool for fellow Democratic candidate Antonio Villaraigosa.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent cease and desist letters this week to three public school districts over advocacy campaigns that violate the state’s education and election codes as “unlawful electioneering.”

With a primary election a few weeks away, Dallas County officials say they already received suspicious mail-in ballots, triggering election integrity vigilance in the wake of last year’s voter fraud scandal engulfing two city council races. It led to hundreds of sequestered ballots, one arrest, and a state law to squash such illegal activity.

The nation’s top intelligence official told members of Congress Wednesday that the intelligence community expects Russia to continue influence operations targeting the United States.

President Donald Trump’s nickname for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and her ongoing fight with the commander-in-chief may have helped her in the polls as she seeks re-election to a fifth term in the Senate against fellow Democrat rival state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles).

A Brazilian election poll found that 24 percent of respondents are not aware that an appellate court sentenced former president and current presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to 12 years in prison on corruption charges.

Comedian Billy Eichner announced on Thursday that he has teamed up with the film company Funny or Die for an initiative called ‘Glam Up the Midterms,’ intended to encourage millennials to participate in the 2018 midterm elections.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro debuted a logo for his upcoming presidential campaign that violates the nation’s electoral laws, and he illegally used public television to promote himself this weekend in anticipation of a presidential election few believe will yield legitimate results.

A majority of the three judges presiding over his case in Brazil’s appellate court have not only upheld a ten-year prison sentence for former president and current presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, they have demanded that sentenced by extended to twelve years.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been measuring the drapes in the Speaker’s office since Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) defeated Republican Roy Moore in the December 12 special Senate election in Alabama.

Harris County, Texas, stands accused of “hiding public information” on noncitizen voters, says a national election integrity law firm.

Houston Magazine OutSmart reports that at least 35 LGBTQ Texans are running for office in the 2018 primary and general elections–including governor and lieutenant governor contests. Five candidates identify as transgender. More than one-third are from Harris County. The publication added five to the list by Wednesday afternoon.

Omar Navarro, 28, the conservative Latino challenger to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), 78, has racked up a growing list of high-profile donors and advisers.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a Fox News contributor and author of Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the horrific terrorist attack on a mosque in Egypt, with over 300 fatalities.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about tax reform, which he called a “work in progress.” He also discussed his call for the removal of Robert Mueller as special counsel in the investigation of Russian influence on the 2016 election.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, chief strategist for the MAGA Coalition and former deputy assistant to President Trump, reflected on Election Day 2016 with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily.

David Bozell, president of ForAmerica, told SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily that it was a little “disappointing” and “bittersweet” to see Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) drop his re-election bid because he “really, really wanted to be a part of defeating that guy.”