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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…
For the better part of 30 minutes Sunday evening, the three Democrats running for Louisiana’s newly redrawn 6th Congressional District did something they had not yet done during this campaign: sit beside one another and explain, in the same room, why each of them believes they should be the Democrat voters send forward. The setting…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
