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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…
Three Democratic candidates for Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District met in Baton Rouge Saturday night for a debate-style forum shaped by one of the most chaotic congressional election fights in modern Louisiana politics. Lindsay “Rubia” Garcia, Tania Nyman and Jessee Fleenor answered questions on voting rights, civil rights, immigration, labor, criminal justice reform, rural infrastructure, agriculture,…
The final scheduled stop of the To The People, For The People 2026 Democratic Roadshow opened Saturday night with a smaller-than-expected U.S. Senate forum, as Nick Albares and Gary Crockett made their case to Democratic voters while Jamie Davis, the party-endorsed candidate in the race, did not attend. The forum, held at the Unitarian Church…
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…
A federal judge on Sunday blocked Louisiana from enforcing a new state law that would have abolished the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court clerk’s office one day before Calvin Duncan was set to assume the post voters elected him to fill. The ruling clears the way, at least temporarily, for Duncan to take office Monday…
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…
A federal appeals court on Friday granted Louisiana’s request to reinstate a nationwide in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone, sharply limiting how patients can access one of the most common medications used in abortion and miscarriage care. The ruling from the New Orleans-based U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals does not ban mifepristone outright. But it…
