The “To The People, For The People” 2026 Democratic Roadshow made its Hammond stop Wednesday night, bringing candidates for U.S. Senate and Congress to Reimer’s Auditorium for a forum shaped by voting-rights uncertainty, affordability, immigration, reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ protections and environmental accountability. The forum featured U.S. Senate candidates Nick Albares and Gary Crockett, 1st Congressional…
The legal fight over Louisiana’s suspended congressional primaries changed Monday night, but it did not end. The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order allowing its ruling in Louisiana v. Callais to take effect immediately, giving Gov. Jeff Landry and Republican lawmakers a stronger procedural argument as they rush to redraw Louisiana’s congressional districts before this…
As early voting opened Saturday for Louisiana’s May 16 Democratic primaries, Democratic candidates for Congress and U.S. Senate gathered at Stellar Beans Coffee House in Lake Charles for the latest stop on the To The People, For The People 2026 Democratic Roadshow. The timing gave the forum an added urgency. The event came days after…
The 2026 Democratic Roadshow stopped in Houma on Friday afternoon with two things hanging over the event: rain clouds and the unresolved political chaos surrounding Louisiana’s May 16 congressional elections. Held at Downtown Jeaux’s and moderated by Bonnie Byland of Indivisible Acadiana, the forum featured U.S. Senate candidates Nick Albares and Gary Crockett, with Jamie…
Lindsay “Rubia” Garcia picked up a high-profile progressive endorsement this week from Baton Rouge activist and former U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers Jr., giving her campaign a fresh burst of visibility as Louisiana’s congressional elections remain caught in legal and political uncertainty. Garcia’s campaign announced the endorsement in a social media post featuring Chambers alongside…
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has suspended the state’s May 16 U.S. House primaries days before early voting was set to begin, throwing the congressional elections into chaos after absentee and mail-in ballots had already gone out and some voters had already cast ballots. The order applies only to Louisiana’s U.S. House races. Other contests scheduled…
The candidates came to the Harvey H. Benoit Community Center on Thursday night to talk about rural hospitals, data centers, wages, infrastructure, agriculture and the grinding affordability pressures facing Northeast Louisiana. But before the forum could fully settle into policy, the central question of the night was already hanging over the room: Would voters actually…
The Democratic candidates who showed up Wednesday night at Louisiana Tech University did not treat the May 16 primary as a sleepy intraparty contest. They framed it as a test of whether Louisiana voters are ready to demand more on health care, utility bills, rural jobs, public education, infrastructure and public accountability. The Ruston stop…
A new Emerson College Polling/KLFY News 10 survey, sponsored by KLFY/Nexstar Media, shows Louisiana’s Republican U.S. Senate primary locked in a tight three-way fight, with state Treasurer John Fleming narrowly leading U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy running third. The survey was conducted April 24-26 among 500 likely Republican primary voters….
At a Democratic candidate forum in Shreveport Tuesday night, the biggest question was not simply who could win votes in Louisiana’s new closed primary system. It was whether the candidates could explain how they would protect ordinary families from being handed the bill for the state’s next round of big promises. The forum, moderated by…
Former Gov. John Bel Edwards endorsed Nick Albares on Tuesday in Louisiana’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary, giving Albares his most significant late boost less than three weeks before voters choose the party’s nominee. The endorsement lands at a consequential point in the race: after the Democratic candidates’ first major debate, with early voting approaching and…
At Southern University on Tuesday night, Louisiana’s three Democratic U.S. Senate candidates offered less of an ideological clash than three different arguments about what kind of Democrat can still compete statewide in a deeply red state. Nick Albares, Gary Crockett and Jamie Davis shared broad agreement on much of the Democratic policy baseline – protecting…
At the first stop of a new Democratic roadshow in Lafayette on Sunday, the candidates onstage did not spend much time debating where the party should stand. On most of the major questions — voting rights, abortion, health care, immigration, public education — they were broadly aligned. What the forum did reveal was something more…
For a party that has spent years struggling to build credible federal campaigns in Louisiana, the first-quarter fundraising reports offered something Democrats do not always get in this state: signs of life. Several Democratic candidates posted respectable numbers in reports covering Jan. 1 through March 31, enough to show that there is still donor interest,…
For many Louisiana voters, Nick Albares is still an introduction. He is not a former statewide officeholder. He is not a longtime elected official with a built-in political base. And unlike some of the more familiar names in Louisiana Democratic politics, Albares comes out of the world of policy and nonprofit leadership more than the…
Former U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon has endorsed Nick Albares in Louisiana’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, giving Albares the support of a former congressman and past statewide Democratic nominee as the May 16 primary approaches. Melancon announced his endorsement in a campaign press release, praising Albares’ work on healthcare and framing him as a candidate…
With less than a month before Louisiana Democrats choose their nominee for U.S. Senate, the party’s three candidates will share a debate stage April 21 in Baton Rouge in what is likely to be one of the clearest side-by-side tests of the race before voting begins. Nick Albares, Gary Crockett, and Jamie Davis are scheduled…
Rev. Larry Foy is running for Congress with an argument Louisiana voters do not hear very often from a candidate shaped by the church: faith is not a detour from progressive politics. It is what brought him there. For Foy, a Democrat running in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District, the through line from ministry to public…
The five Democrats running in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District offered few real policy clashes at a forum Tuesday night. Instead, the sharper divide was over style, strategy and how forcefully Democrats should confront both a radicalized Republican Party and their own party’s failures in places like rural Louisiana. That made the Young Democrats of Livingston…
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Nick Albares said Thursday that his brother, David Albares, has died, and that he will temporarily step away from the campaign trail to be with his family. “On Tuesday, March 24, 2026 I learned my brother died,” Albares said in a statement. “My brother and I were very close and we…
The Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee on Saturday moved ahead with a long-debated endorsement meeting, formally backing candidates in the U.S. Senate race, all six congressional districts, and several statewide contests ahead of the party’s new closed-primary cycle. By the end of the day, the party had endorsed Jamie Davis for U.S. Senate; Lauren Jewett…
Matt Gromlich says he is running for Congress because too many people in Louisiana’s 4th District have gotten used to a kind of representation that feels distant, performative, and largely absent from everyday life. A Shreveport educator now in his 14th year teaching, Gromlich is challenging House Speaker Mike Johnson as a Democrat in one…
Democratic congressional candidate Tania Nyman is not running as a generic issue-sheet progressive. In an interview with The Bayou Progressive, Nyman framed her candidacy in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District as an extension of years of advocacy around public schools, fair maps, democratic accountability and the preservation of public institutions she argues are steadily being hollowed…
With Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District open for the first time in years, Democratic candidate Lindsay “Rubia” Garcia is trying to make the case that this is not the cycle for cautious politics. In an interview with The Bayou Progressive, Garcia described herself as a teacher, advocate, organizer, and newly minted lawyer who has spent years…
