State Rep. Jolanda Jones is running for Texas’ 18th Congressional District, citing her personal experiences with poverty, food insecurity, and government failure as the driving force behind her campaign. She says voters want a fearless fighter in Washington and she’s ready to take that fight to D.C.

Former Houston City Council Member Amanda Edwards is running to represent the city’s 18th Congressional District, focusing on healthcare, economic stability, and restoring representation. Edwards says her father’s cancer battle inspired her commitment to public service and her pledge to put “people over politics.”

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee is running for Houston’s 18th Congressional District seat, saying he wants to fight for working families and protect democracy. His top priorities include health care access, cost of living, and environmental justice.

U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz's brother is the latest to enter a GOP primary field vying for the San Antonio-area district newly gerrymandered to favor Republicans.

The Austin lawmaker, first elected in 2004, chaired the influential House Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security committees. He is the second Texas Republican this week to bow out of Congress.

Lujan, a Republican, represents a state House district that covers southern and eastern portions of San Antonio, overlapping with the new congressional seat.

Flores, who was going to challenge Rep. Henry Cuellar, is returning to her old district after a newly passed map improves Republicans’ chances of ousting Gonzalez.

Herrera, who came within 400 votes of ousting Gonzales in a 2024 runoff, is once again positioning himself to the right of the incumbent.

Democratic members slammed the process, questioning why hearings were happening before maps were available for review. Chair Cody Vasut said follow-up public hearings will be scheduled once maps are filed.

Members of Congress from Houston are pushing back against a special legislative session called by Governor Greg Abbott.

This will be the second time Martin has run for the seat but faces Harris Co. Attorney Christian Menefee, who was endorsed by late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's daughter and serves as his campaign's chairwoman.

Reps. Cuellar and Gonzalez are moderate Democrats who represent border districts that increasingly vote Republican.

After winning a special election to finish her late mother’s term in Congress, Erica Lee Carter, the daughter of Sheila Jackson Lee, will take the oath of office in Washington D.C. on Tuesday.

First-term Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has won reelection in Washington state’s closely watched 3rd Congressional District.

Nebraska’s high court says people with felony records can register to vote in a decision with implications for the upcoming election.

Voters in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District will choose a successor on Wednesday to the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr. In the race, Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver, Republican small business owner Carmen Bucco and two minor-party candidates are running to serve out the remaining 15 weeks of Payne’s unexpired term.

Alabama's newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District is sparking a heated election.

New Hampshire is among the smallest states in the country, but its state primaries have enough intrigue to fill a much larger state.

Five candidates are vying for the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’s 18th Congressional District seat in Houston. #HoustonPolitics #18thDistrict #SpecialElection

Five months after holding its presidential primaries, Washington state is looking further down the ticket to select candidates to compete for federal and state offices in November.

Kansas voters will choose their parties’ nominees for the U.S. House, the state legislature and the state Board of Education in primaries next week.

Arizona is already expected to play a critical role in the race for the White House as it did in 2020.

Some notable names are talking with KRPC 2 Investigates about putting their name in for the 18th District.

Democrat George Latimer defeated U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman in New York’s 16th Congressional District on the strength of his showing in vote-rich Westchester County, according to an Associated Press analysis of initial vote results.

Colorado’s congressional delegation faces a reshuffling in new week's state primaries after a retirement, resignation and one relocation have ensured that at least a third of the state’s population will have new representation in Washington next year.

Conservative Virginia Congressman Bob Good is asking for patience as he hopes the final ballot count from Tuesday’s primary will allow him to fend off a challenger endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

Voters will decide almost 60 contested primaries for the U.S. House of Representatives and both chambers of the Oklahoma state legislature.

A southwest Georgia Republican who went to prison for his actions inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, may come a step closer to serving in Congress when the state holds primary runoff elections in some U.S. House and state legislative races.

A Georgia congressional candidate convicted for illegally demonstrating inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has walked out of a televised debate with a fellow Republican.

Whether to count more than 1,900 mail ballots cast in one New Jersey county will be up to a judge after their envelopes were unsealed prematurely and members of the local election board deadlocked on how to proceed.

Idaho voters are heading to the polls to decide primaries for the U.S. House and the state legislature.

North Carolina’s lone congressional runoff, in the state’s 13th Congressional District, became a one-person race when former President Donald Trump endorsed Brad Knott.

New York voters are choosing a replacement for Democrat Brian Higgins in a congressional district where Democrats have a long record of success.

About 6,000 voters in a new congressional district formed to boost Black representation received postcards with incorrect voting information ahead of Tuesday’s primary election.

Voters in Utah’s second congressional district will cast ballots Tuesday in an Thanksgiving-week special election to fill the last remaining vacant seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Oregon's Democratic U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer has announced that he won't be running for reelection next year.

Sanz was accused of throwing a chair at his sister. The case was dismissed after Sanz completed 36 sessions of batterer intervention and 12 hours of community service at a church.

Host Khambrel Marshall sits down with newly-elected US Rep. Wesley Hunt, representing the 38th Congressional District. He says he has “no apologies” for being conservative and makes his opinions clear on issues such as gun control.

The Texas Republican’s campaign, which recouped most of the money, has reported the case to the FBI. The Federal Elections Commission is also looking into it.

The races for two US House seats in Oregon remain unresolved heading into the weekend, with tens of thousands of ballots left to be counted in the vote-by-mail state.

The Democratic congressman ousted Rep. Mayra Flores, R-Los Indios, who had won a special election in June. The race was key to Republican efforts to win over Hispanic voters in South Texas.

The U.S. House race in Oregon's newly created 6th Congressional District is closer than expected.

“I’m really, deeply disappointed in the DCCC,” Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa said. “I hope they change their mind, and if we lose this election, it’s completely on them.”

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York is endorsing Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler in his contentious primary contest with another veteran U.S. House member from New York, Carolyn Maloney.

The 4th Congressional District in Washington state is a land of snow-capped volcanic peaks and lush irrigated apple orchards.

Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer, who witnessed the Capitol riot days after taking office in 2021 and then cast one of the 10 Republican votes to impeach Donald Trump over the attack, has lost his reelection bid.

Houston Newsmakers: Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on the road to celebration of Juneteenth, and more

In this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with Abby about the week in Texas politics and Cassandra about financial practices of the conservative nonprofit True the Vote.

Her opponent Ruben Ramirez is not conceding, saying the race is still too close to call. Counties have to submit final vote counts by end of day Thursday.

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, is leading his challenger, Jessica Cisneros, by 177 votes, while the margin is even smaller in the 15th Congressional District, where Michelle Vallejo is ahead of Ruben Ramirez for the open seat.

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he will run for Congress in a redrawn district that includes his Brooklyn home.

The winner of the special election will replace former U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, who resigned last month to work for Akin Gump.

A special election will determine who finishes Vela’s term, and while the winner will only serve for a short period, Republicans are already eyeing the contest to show momentum in South Texas.

Kansas officials face two lawsuits over a Republican redistricting law.

Republican lawmakers in Kansas are close to passing a congressional redistricting plan that ties a community known for its “woke” politics to Trump-loving small towns and farms five or hours more west by car on the expansive plains.

A formal challenge of North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s qualifications to run for Congress has been delayed while redistricting litigation is pending.

Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick will fill Florida’s vacant U.S. House seat.

U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez announced last week he’ll seek reelection in a new seat, leaving his 15th Congressional District open for the 2022 election. Candidate filing begins Nov. 13.

The redistricting process in the GOP-dominated Legislature made many political districts less competitive, which some experts believe might hurt civic engagement.

After a few last-minute alterations, the state's new congressional districts are drawn and await the scrutiny of federal courts. Already, one lawsuit has been filed claiming the new maps intentionally discriminate against Latino voters.

The Austin Democrat, who has served in Congress since 1995, currently represents the 35th District, which stretches down to San Antonio. He will run in the newly created 37th District located in Travis County.

The GOP is losing its hold on suburbs of Dallas and Fort Worth as they grow more diverse. Two new districts show how far the party is reaching to entrench rural, white electoral power.

Wesley Hunt, an Army combat veteran who ran a close congressional contest last year in the Houston area, announced Tuesday he plans to run for the state's new 38th District in the same region.

The proposed congressional map also increases the number of districts where Trump had a majority of voters over Biden in 2020 and protects Republican incumbents who might have been vulnerable by packing their districts with more Trump voters.

Five Republicans, one Democrat, an Independent and a Libertarian are vying to fill Ellzey's seat after he won a promotion to Congress last month. The filing deadline was 5 p.m. Thursday.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat representing the 18th Congressional District of Texas, is calling upon the federal government pursuant to the Presidential Emergency Declaration on COVID-19 to intervene immediately with resources to help combat COVID-19 in Texas.

In Republicans’ bid to retake control of Congress, a traditionally Democratic stretch of South Texas has quietly become a top battleground.

There are signs of Democratic fatigue in Iowa, a state viewed for decades as a true political battleground.

Houston Newsmakers: Ballot Integrity or suppression?

It was one of many bright spots Tuesday for Republicans in Texas — and an example of relatively reliable polling to boot. After Texas Republicans were caught sleeping two years ago, they say it was Democrats who walked into a buzzsaw this time — a more battle-ready, unified GOP. And Democrats’ hopes of flipping the Texas House collapsed, with the balance of power largely unchanged heading into January. That vigilance reassured Texas Republicans throughout the cycle, even as they wearily watched poll after poll come out showing Trump struggling in Texas. Like the DCCC, the Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee was left Thursday touting its defense victories — the reelection of 11 out of 12 freshmen — and emphasizing the expensive battle they forced Republicans to fight.

Texas Democrats are hoping to flip several congressional seats held by Republicans on Election Day. At least five Republican incumbents whom Democrats targeted cruised to reelection, according to races called by Decision Desk HQ. Similarly, U.S. Rep. Van Taylor, R-Plano, also held off a challenge from Democrat Lulu Seikaly in Collin County's 3rd Congressional District. Three new members-elect in safe Republican seats also won their races, according to Decision Desk HQ. In the 4th Congressional District that covers the northeastern part of the state, State Sen. Pat Fallon will replace John Ratcliffe, who is now director of National Intelligence.

Burgess Owens, Republican candidate in Utah's 4th Congressional District, poses for a photograph during a campaign stop Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, in Spring City, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)SALT LAKE CITY – The conspiracy theory QAnon bubbled into the forefront in a competitive race for a suburban Utah swing congressional district this week, another sign of how the baseless theory has diffused into mainstream politics. For many voters in the Republican-leaning district, Owens' flirtation with QAnon doesn’t appear to be a deal breaker. Thomas dismisses QAnon but said “if Owens believes in QAnon, that doesn’t disqualify him, in my opinion." The Owens campaign has said he doesn't believe in the Qanon's conspiracy theory.

Democrat Lizzie Pannill Fletcher and Republican Wesley Hunt are running for the Houston area’s 7th Congressional District seat. That's according to two Democratic sources familiar with information about media buys. HMP is a Democratic super PAC that aims to elect Democrats to the House and is aligned with House Democratic leadership. While national Democrats have designated 10 pickup opportunities across Texas, the GOP has focused its offense here on Fletcher’s district as well as that of Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas. But Fletcher’s seat was the only one that saw significant national investment until recently, as Allred’s GOP challenger, Genevieve Collins, has remained financially competitive partly due to her self-funding.

In thirteen previous elections to represent the 18th Congressional District, the opponents of U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D) 18th, have averaged 19% of the vote. Jackson Lee says she’s worked hard to keep her job. Abbott’s order to cut number of mail in ballot sites--Election Security & a HOUSTON NEWSMAKERS EXTRA**Crime Stoppers Celebrates 40 Years! It’s been an amazing journey for Crime Stoppers of Houston. Rania Mankarious is CEO of Crime Stoppers of Houston.

Wendell Champion is a West Point graduate who says his leadership is what’s needed now in the 18th Congressional District after 25 years of representation by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. She says her time as a drug court judge opened her eyes. “I mean I literally saw miracles happen in that courtroom every day.”Anderson says 70% of drug court graduates have never been re-arrested. Brighter Bites fight against food insecurityLisa Helfman is a co-founder of Brighter Bites, founded in Houston to help provide healthy food to students. More informationWendell Champion, (R) Candidate, 18th Congressional DistrictLisa Helfman, Founder, Board Chair, Brighter BitesDevon Anderson, President & CEO Justice Forward

(AP) – The National Republican Congressional Committee has canceled about $2 million worth of advertising it had reserved for campaigning in the Houston television market, according to several Democratic and Republican sources tracking Houston media advertising who were not authorized to discuss the issue on the record. Fletcher unseated Republican John Culberson in 2018, and she is one of two Democratic incumbents who Republicans have been targeting in Texas this year. The $2 million was intended to cover advertising in the last two weeks of the election, according to the sources. One source, a national Republican operative, said the money has been moved to the San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth media markets. A Republican leadership aligned group, the Congressional Leadership Fund, is expected to spend about $6.25 million in Houston between media advertising and a field operation.

Fifth Congressional District candidate, Democrat Antone Melton-Meaux, answers questions during an interview in his Minneapolis office Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Melton-Meaux is giving Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar an unexpectedly strong, well-funded primary challenge in one of the country's most heavily Democratic congressional districts, which includes Minneapolis and some suburbs. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

(TEXAS TRIBUNE) – Judging from March, the ideological left wing of the Democratic Party in Texas should be inconsolable. Joe Biden practically locked up the Democratic presidential nomination, and progressive candidates experienced electoral drubbings. I feel really good not just about my chances, but the movement overall,” says Mike Siegel, a candidate for Texas' 10th Congressional District. He’s already endorsed at least seven Texas congressional candidates. “The progressive movement is just getting started here in Texas,” Siegel said.

A primary care physician, he was spending the afternoon collecting nasal swabs from low-income patients to test for the new coronavirus. Other candidates in health care report similar experiences, though this isnt the first time candidates with medical or scientific backgrounds have entered the political arena. Dr. Christine Eady Mann is in a Democratic primary runoff to take on U.S. Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock. COVID-19 has demonstrated to us that our health care system has many vulnerabilities, some of which are now national security issues, he said. But as the coronavirus pandemic has upended Americans lives, it has also served as a cultural moment to lionize front-line health care workers.