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The former prime minister was detained and convicted on Saturday. By Wednesday, the lower house of Parliament had been disbanded.

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'We're not just voting. We're also running': David Hogg launches a young candidate PAC. The success of Maxwell Frost, advocate-turned-politician and the youngest member of Congress, is a motivator, says Hogg.

Patrick Braxton, first Black mayor of Newbern, small town in Alabama’s Black Belt region, filed federal civil rights lawsuit alleging the white former mayor and city council members violated the Constitution when they locked him out of the Town Hall

Last week’s annexation vote in Mobile, Alabama, added thousands of white residents, reducing the black-white voter gap in the majority-minority city. It’s an effective strategy used by city elites to artificially inflate conservative political power.

Presley has a story beyond his kinship with Elvis. He was raised by a single mom who worked in a garment factory after his father was murdered. He tells working-class voters that they should see their names on the ballot when they see his.

The Socialist may remain prime minister if he can cobble together enough support from wildly different political groups.

The GOP’s off-the-wall positions should make it easy for the Dems to defeat the out-of-touch Republicans. But not when the party is dialing for the same corporate campaign cash as the GOP.

The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.

Growing population in America’s highly educated enclaves has led to huge gains for the Democratic Party. And Republicans are scrambling for answers.