
Ella Nilsen
Former White House Reporter
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Pelosi is raising tens of millions for Democratic candidates. A growing number say they won’t support her bid for speaker.


If Democrats take back the House, the first thing on their to-do list will likely be fixing America’s roads and bridges.


Kris Kobach is challenging incumbent Jeff Colyer in the GOP primary for governor.


Nominees will be chosen in Missouri’s US Senate race and a key House race. Voters will also decide a statewide ballot initiative.


There’s a key special election in Ohio and other races that are central to Democrats’ efforts to spur a “blue wave.”


Sharice Davids narrowly beat Bernie Sanders-backed candidate Brent Welder for the nomination in Kansas’s Third Congressional District.

Democrats’ efforts to spur a “blue wave” will be put to the test, again.

These progressives want to beat Trump. But first, they want to fix the Democratic Party.


Kansas Republicans spent years enacting a conservative vision. Now Democrats want to fight back.


Missouri’s Claire McCaskill might be 2018’s most vulnerable Senate Democrat.