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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…
A Baton Rouge construction company gave $100,000 to a super PAC supporting U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow’s Senate campaign while it was performing work under a federal contract with NASA, according to a new complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission. The Campaign Legal Center alleges MMR Constructors, Inc. violated federal campaign finance law when it…
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…
Louisiana lawmakers redrew the 6th Congressional District this spring to make it considerably easier for Republicans to win. Qualifying made deciding which Republican — or whether a Democrat can make the runoff — considerably more complicated. Ten candidates qualified for the newly configured district before Friday’s deadline, including two sitting Republican state senators with substantial…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
The Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (or “BREC”)’s effort to declare multiple Baton Rouge parks “obsolete” and move them toward sale hit serious resistance this week after residents and local officials blasted the process as rushed, opaque, and disconnected from the communities most affected. The controversy centers on a…
A recent federal court decision is shining a major spotlight on St. James Parish — and raising big questions about environmental justice across Louisiana, especially for communities near Baton Rouge. The Big News On April 9, 2025, a federal appeals court ruled that a civil rights lawsuit filed by Black residents in St. James Parish…
