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More than 520,000 Louisianans have already voted, with Black participation approaching Obama-era levels and Democratic strongholds showing particularly significant gains. But the numbers also reveal important questions about youth engagement and what the early vote can tell us about Election Day.
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New campaign finance reports show Antonio Wilson and Pat Moore entering October with limited cash reserves, while Republican opponents report substantially larger campaign treasuries.
The Tensas farmer and Democratic nominee reported a surge in individual contributions, but Letlow maintains a nearly $477,000 cash advantage heading into October.
The 4th District Democrat has now reported nearly $1.2 million in individual contributions, with more than $334,000 in cash on hand entering the final weeks before Election Day.
The Democrat challenging House Speaker Mike Johnson reported $445,580 in cumulative receipts, but approximately 80% of that total came from money he loaned his own campaign.
The 2nd District congressman entered October with more than $666,000 in cash on hand, with PAC contributions accounting for much of his cumulative fundraising.
The 3rd District Democrat reported nearly $109,000 in new receipts since mid-July, substantially increasing his campaign's fundraising and entering October with more than $84,000 in cash on hand.
The north Louisiana farmer is betting that a growing fundraising operation, an economic populist message and a December runoff could turn his challenge to the House speaker into a national fight.
Read the story →The ads, the campaign’s first of the election cycle, will run on television, CTV, and digital across the state through Election Day, according to campaign officials.
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More than 520,000 Louisianans have already voted, with Black participation approaching Obama-era levels and Democratic strongholds showing particularly significant gains. But the numbers also reveal important questions about youth engagement and what the early vote can tell us about Election Day.
The north Louisiana farmer is betting that a growing fundraising operation, an economic populist message and a December runoff could turn his challenge to the House speaker into a national fight.
National education reform donors, political committees and local business interests are backing overlapping slates of candidates — and spending against others — in an effort to influence the future of East Baton Rouge's public schools. One incumbent who benefited from their support four years ago now describes a fractured relationship with the organizations that helped elect her.
The number of Louisiana voters classified as inactive more than doubled during a matter of weeks last summer, according to a new analysis from the ACLU of Louisiana that also found the impact fell disproportionately on Black and Democratic voters across nearly every parish in the state. The report, released August 4 and authored by…
A new report from Tulane University’s Newcomb Institute connects Louisiana’s population decline to the state’s deeper failures on public health, maternal care, rural access and economic opportunity. Louisiana is not just losing people. It is losing people while struggling to keep too many of its remaining residents healthy, safe and economically stable. That is the…
A newly released federal watchdog report found serious safety, medical, legal access and use-of-force violations at Winn Correctional Center, a Louisiana facility used to detain immigrants for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report, released June 2, details the findings of an unannounced March 2025 inspection of…
Gov. Jeff Landry has reached an unusual point in his increasingly bitter relationship with New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno: he will not speak to her, but he would still like to be thanked. Landry took to social media Friday afternoon after Moreno issued a statement marking the end of the Louisiana National Guard’s eight-month deployment…
It turns out reparations are not unrealistic. They are not too complicated. They are not inherently divisive. They are not some fringe fantasy that no serious government could ever administer. Apparently, reparations are perfectly manageable when the beneficiaries are Donald Trump’s political allies. On Monday, the Trump administration announced the creation of a $1.776 billion…
Gov. Jeff Landry ordered flags lowered for Martha Elizabeth Odom, the 17-year-old Lafayette student killed in a shooting at the Mall of Louisiana. Let’s start where basic decency requires us to start: Martha Odom was a child. Her death was a horror. Her family deserves grief without spectacle, memory without exploitation, and space to mourn…
