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State Sen. Larry Selders, a Baton Rouge Democrat who represented Louisiana’s 14th Senate District, died suddenly Tuesday evening at 44, prompting an outpouring of grief from across Louisiana politics and the Baton Rouge community. The Louisiana Illuminator reported that Selders collapsed while attending his son’s football practice. While no official cause of death had been…
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill was indicted Thursday by an Orleans Parish grand jury on 16 felony counts tied to letters she sent New Orleans officials during the state’s fight over control of the Orleans Parish clerk of court’s office. Murrill is facing eight counts of public intimidation and eight counts of malfeasance in office,…
The resignation comes after a public split between the group’s co-founders, a dispute over a $100,000 donation, and growing questions about whether the statewide recall campaign has the structure needed to survive. Louisiana Deserves Better, the grassroots organization leading recall efforts against Gov. Jeff Landry, Attorney General Liz Murrill, and East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sid…
Jamie Davis, the Tensas Parish farmer who built his campaign around an outsider message and a call for Democrats to reconnect with working people across Louisiana, has won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. With all 64 parishes and all 3,722 precincts reporting Saturday night, unofficial results from the Louisiana Secretary of State showed Davis…
Louisiana’s two Democratic members of Congress are lining up behind Jamie Davis in the final days of the Democratic runoff for U.S. Senate, giving Davis a clear show of party support ahead of Saturday’s election. U.S. Rep. Troy A. Carter Sr. publicly endorsed Davis this week, posting that Davis is “the voice we need” in…
Sen. Royce Duplessis was the only senator to vote against Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to cut $168 million from the state’s public school funding formula to fund teacher and support staff stipends. Louisiana lawmakers have approved Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to cut $168 million from the state’s public school funding formula and redirect the money…
Former U.S. Senate candidate Nick Albares has endorsed Jamie Davis ahead of Saturday’s runoff election, giving Davis another public show of support from a former primary rival as the campaign enters its final stretch. In a video posted to Instagram, Albares reminded voters that Election Day for the runoff is Saturday, June 27, and said…
Just one day after Baton Rouge gathered to celebrate the reopening of the Baton Rouge African American Museum, the downtown institution was burglarized and two boxes of artifacts collected by the late Sadie Roberts-Joseph were stolen, according to her son and museum curator Jason Roberts. Roberts said the burglary happened sometime after 5 p.m. Saturday,…
Jamie Davis knows some voters do not see him as the polished, consultant-built version of a U.S. Senate candidate. He does not sound like one. He does not dress like one. He does not pretend to be a Washington policy technician waiting for his close-up. And as Davis tells it, some of the sharpest criticism…
Rep. Cleo Fields is raising concerns over a pending U.S.-Iran framework agreement, arguing that President Donald Trump is trying to turn an unnecessary war into a political victory while leaving Congress and taxpayers with unanswered questions about the cost. The preliminary framework, announced last week, is not a final agreement. It sets up a 60-day…
New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno has endorsed Jamie Davis in Louisiana’s Democratic runoff for U.S. Senate, giving Davis another high-profile boost as his campaign works to close out the nomination fight and turn Democratic attention toward the fall. Davis announced the endorsement Monday in a social media post, framing Moreno’s support as part of a…
Hosted by the Louisiana Mobilization Collective and Indivisible Baton Rouge, the Sunday rally connected redistricting, immigration, recall organizing and the June 27 election under one message: show up. Outside the Governor’s Mansion on Sunday afternoon, a coalition of Baton Rouge organizers, students, faith leaders and voting rights advocates gathered with a message that was aimed…
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…
Tia LeBrun, who entered Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District race as a Democrat, announced that she has changed her party registration and will now run as a No Party candidate in the newly configured district. The move comes after months of legal and political chaos surrounding Louisiana’s congressional elections, including the cancellation of the original U.S….
Gov. Jeff Landry has signed Louisiana’s newest congressional map into law, locking in another dramatic rewrite of the state’s U.S. House districts after years of litigation, court orders, legislative reversals and voter confusion. Under the newly signed law, Louisiana Republicans have likely drawn themselves a 5-1 congressional map unless courts intervene quickly. That intervention is…
Democratic lawmakers from Louisiana, Texas, Georgia and Mississippi gathered at the Louisiana State Capitol on Wednesday to warn that Louisiana’s latest congressional redistricting fight is not an isolated state issue, but part of a broader regional effort to roll back Black voting power and Democratic representation across the South. The press conference, led by Rep….
State Sen. Jay Morris (R-West Monroe) helped move one of the biggest corporate development projects in Louisiana history. Then he and his business partners sold land tied to the power infrastructure needed to make it work. That is the core finding of a new Floodlight investigation published by The Guardian, and it is not some minor…
Jamie Davis did not win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate outright Saturday night. But he did win the first round decisively. And the reason is not especially mysterious. Davis won because he was best positioned for the Democratic electorate that actually showed up: older, heavily Black, deeply rooted in the party’s most consistent voting…
Nick Albares has ended his campaign for U.S. Senate, effectively clearing the way for a Democratic runoff between Jamie Davis and Gary Crockett after a primary that exposed just how different Louisiana’s closed Democratic electorate looks from the version many campaigns seemed to be targeting. In a Tuesday statement, Albares said that although votes are…
Louisiana voters on Saturday rejected the proposed constitutional amendment that would have cleared the way for the City of St. George to form its own public school system, delivering a decisive statewide rebuke to one of the most consequential school-secession efforts in modern Louisiana politics. With all precincts reporting in unofficial returns from the Louisiana…
Jamie Davis finished as the top vote-getter in Louisiana’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Saturday night, but he fell short of the majority needed to win the nomination outright, setting up a second party primary runoff. With all 64 parishes and all 3,722 precincts reporting, unofficial results from the Louisiana Secretary of State showed Davis…
Louisiana’s congressional election chaos is no longer theoretical. It is now moving through the Legislature. The Louisiana Senate voted Thursday to advance a Republican-backed congressional map that would likely return the state to a 5-1 Republican congressional delegation, eliminating one of Louisiana’s two majority-Black congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the current…
Nearly seven years after Ronald Greene died in the custody of Louisiana State Police, the state has agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle the wrongful death lawsuit brought by his family. The tentative settlement, first reported Tuesday, would require Louisiana State Police to pay $4.8 million to resolve claims tied to troopers John…
