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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.
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New Orleans teacher reports more than 21,000 donors as fundraising surpasses totals of recent Democratic challengers to Steve Scalise.
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.
Four candidates for Louisiana’s newly redrawn 6th Congressional District took the stage Friday night at Baton Rouge’s Manship Theatre for what was billed as a debate but often felt more like a televised candidate forum. Democrats Chauna Banks, Pat Forbes and Lindsay “Rubia” Garcia were joined by Republican state Sen. Rick Edmonds for the hour-long…
Democratic congressional candidate Pat Forbes announced Thursday that his campaign has raised more than $100,000 from over 2,000 individual donors in its first eight weeks, marking an early fundraising milestone for the former state official ahead of Louisiana’s November 3 election. The figures, which have not yet been independently verified, are expected to be reflected…
Candidates for district judge, Family Court and Justice of the Peace seats made their pitches to Baton Rouge voters Thursday night at a candidate forum hosted by the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice at Living Faith Christian Center. The Oct. 1 event unfolded in two panels, beginning with judicial candidates before turning to candidates…
Pat Forbes does not pretend that three Democrats competing in Louisiana’s newly redrawn 6th Congressional District is an ideal situation. “Obviously, it’s not good for us to have three Democrats in the race,” Forbes told The Bayou Progressive in a wide-ranging interview this week. “But here we are.” The question hanging over Forbes’ candidacy is…
Four candidates for Louisiana’s newly redrawn 6th Congressional District took the stage Friday night at Baton Rouge’s Manship Theatre for what was billed as a debate but often felt more like a televised candidate forum. Democrats Chauna Banks, Pat Forbes and Lindsay “Rubia” Garcia were joined by Republican state Sen. Rick Edmonds for the hour-long…
Read the story →Pat Forbes does not pretend that three Democrats competing in Louisiana’s newly redrawn 6th Congressional District is an ideal situation. “Obviously, it’s not good for us to have three Democrats in the race,” Forbes told The Bayou Progressive in a wide-ranging interview this week. “But here we are.” The question hanging over Forbes’ candidacy is…
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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 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…
