When first running for office as a Democrat in 2022, state Rep. Hillary Cassel said she disagreed with Gov. Ron DeSantis on “almost all issues.” Just last year, Democratic state Rep. Susan Valdes said she couldn’t understand why Latinos would vote for a “dictator” like Donald Trump.

Republicans took the gavel in the Michigan House of Representatives, Detroit Democrat state Rep. Karen Whitsett said she won't caucus with her party, in part, because she doesn't want to fuel any concerns that she may leak confidential conversations with her Democratic colleagues to GOP House Speaker Matt Hall whom she called a friend.

A significant number of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday to advance a GOP-led bill to require the detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes – a key step that puts the legislation on the verge of passage.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) reflected on the “changed” Republican Party, saying he finds himself being “probably closer to a Democrat now” politically, arguing the Democratic Party is

The Iowa Democratic Party is facing a greater disadvantage this legislative session as voters across the state largely favored Republican candidates. With the session set to

The Republican Congress that began its first full week of work on Monday is already operating on borrowed time – unless the GOP can defy one of the most powerful patterns of recent US politics.

Two Florida House Representatives, Hillary Cassel and Susan Valdés, recently announced they were leaving the Democratic Party to join the GOP.

President-elect Donald Trump hailed Florida state Rep. Hillary Cassel's announcement that she's switching from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.

The North Carolina Supreme Court blocked state officials from certifying the Democratic candidate as the winner of a razor-thin race for the state’s high court.

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R), among the party’s highest-profile critics of President-elect Trump, responded to getting kicked out of the Georgia Republican Party on Thursday by asking what took so long.

President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case in which he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, at New York Criminal Court in Manhattan in New York, Jan. 10, 2025. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters via AP, Pool) AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court on Friday, with the justices largely holding the app’s fate in their hands. The popular social media platform says the law violates the First Amendment and should be struck down.