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A contentious race continues to heat up in the final days before the May 6 election in a Texas school district where dedicated progressives hope to unseat several incumbents on one of the state’s most conservative school boards.

Joe Bray-Ali, a Democrat candidate for Los Angeles City Council, lost the endorsement of the Los Angeles Times last week after admitting that he had made offensive remarks in an online forum.

Joel Fox of California’s “Fox & Hounds” political blog has suggested the possibility that a Democrat-versus-Democrat contest in California’s 2018 governor’s race could end up helping some Republicans retain their seats.

A new report in the Orange County Register suggests that Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) of San Diego has turned to the left after nearly losing his congressional seat in the 2016 election, in a state where being anti-Trump may help (or not).

Edward “Ned” Price, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst who said he resigned last week because of President Donald Trump’s “disturbing” actions and that his “decision had nothing to do with politics,” donated thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign.

A poll conducted in the Lone Star State reveals that President Donald Trump has an 81 percent approval rating by Republicans. Only 10 percent said they disapprove of his performance.

Recent polling has found that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who is seen as the Democratic Party’s “liberal lion,” is far less popular than the state’s Republican Gov. Charlie Baker (R-MA).

California Gov. Jerry Brown, continuing his practice of granting clemency before major Christian holidays, pardoned another 112 people, bring his total as governor to record 1,258.

TEL AVIV – While the overwhelming majority of Jewish voters voted for Hillary Clinton over President-elect Donald Trump, the Republican candidate still received the second-highest total Jewish vote for the GOP in the past 30 years, beaten only by Mitt Romney in 2012.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has statistically tied Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a Fox News poll released Wednesday afternoon. Trump won 39 percent in the new poll to Clinton’s 41 percent, according to an announcement made on the Fox

On Tuesday, California’s State Senate fell four votes short of the 21 votes necessary to approve a bill that sought to eliminate Daylight Savings Time.

The East Bay Times has endorsed a Republican for State Assembly: namely, attorney Catharine Baker, 45, who is up for reelection for the first time in the Bay Area’s 16th Assembly District — a tough reelection district for any Republican.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced that the Democratic presidential nominee “disavows” support from the Orlando terrorist’s father Seddique Mateen.

“We are hiring organizers here and between now and election day, we are going to register 3 million more people,” Hillary Clinton said at the close of her DNC campaign speech. “We are not just going to register them, we are going to get them to commit to vote.”

WikiLeaks is out with more than two dozen voicemails from the Democratic National Committee, which feature frantic complaints about how the DNC is too soft on Sen. Bernie Sanders (D.-Vt.) and his supporters.

TEL AVIV – A former congresswoman spread the lie on Twitter that Israel played a role in both the Nice and Munich terror attacks, based on the fact that an Israeli photographer was present at the scene of both.

Two Camden County, New Jersey elected officials jumped ship from the Democratic Party to register Republican in the heavily Democrat region and vote for presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump.

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer won the over 50 percent needed this week to avoid a November runoff election and score his first non-special election win.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris pulled off a commanding first place finish in the crowded race to replace retiring Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday — a win thanks in large part to the flooded field of Republican and “no party preference” candidates in a “jungle” primary.

President Barack Obama honored the Denver Broncos today for their Super Bowl victory, but he couldn’t help recalling the moment that he accepted the Democratic nomination in Mile High Stadium in 2008.

California now has the highest voter registration in its history at near 18 million, with over 646,000 registrations in just 45 days, thanks in part to controversial Facebook’s two-day May registration push ahead of the June 7 Presidential primary election.

Democrat-run New Orleans witnessed 23 armed robberies and two homicides during Memorial Weekend.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s distant vice presidential prospects may be more remote than ever, as a state appellate court appears ready to strike down California’s “cap-and-trade program as an unconstitutional tax.

The leader of a major union is accusing Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, of betraying union members’ economic interests to please a major environmentalist donor.

California has seen a surge in voter registration ahead of the June 7 primary — not only among Republicans, but even more so among Democrats and Latino voters.

Legal German immigrant Sabine Durden lost her only son Dominic in 2012 when an unlicensed, illegal alien driver hit and killed him. Now, Durden says Donald Trump is the 2016 presidential candidate who has brought attention to her son’s death and renewed her hope.

President Barack Obama declined to say whether he voted for Hillary Clinton or Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary in Illinois. Obama was asked about his vote by the Wall Street Journal’s Carol Lee, but he did not appear willing

Veteran pollster Pat Caddell’s Armada group has spent the past several years charting the alienation of the American electorate, constructing a fascinating model of what most Americans desire in the ideal political candidate – the great statesman, or stateswoman, voters want for our time.

There are more solidly Republican or Republican-leaning states in the U.S. than Democratic or Democratic-leaning states, according to a new Gallup analysis of political party affiliation.

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) joined Senator Dianne Feinstein in condemning President Barack Obama’s strategy in handling the Islamic State–becoming one of the most recent California Democrat elected officials to do so.

Although Democrats like to talk about unfair wealth inequality in America, six of the ten richest members of Congress are Democrats and the poorest member is a Republican.

Charlie Crist is back, and this time, it looks as if he is here to stay. Crist announced that he is running for Congress in Florida’s soon-to-be-Democratic-leaning 13th congressional district.

Vice President Joe Biden is still weighing a run for president, but CNN reports he doesn’t plan to announce his intentions in time for the first Democratic presidential debate, in October.

Long-time Clinton chum Casey Wasserman, a Hollywood sports agent, suggested Sunday that a run by Vice President Joe Biden for president in 2016 would serve to strengthen Hillary’s run for the Democratic Party nomination and the Oval Office.

U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-FL), who is in a contentious Senate primary race with fellow congressman Alan Grayson, has expectedly moved to the left of his usual middle-of-the-road positions on many issues.

Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) joined the ranks of a growing number of Democrats opposed to the Iran deal on Wednesday.