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The 4th District Democrat has now reported nearly $1.2 million in individual contributions, with more than $334,000 in cash on hand entering the final weeks before Election Day.
The Democrat challenging House Speaker Mike Johnson reported $445,580 in cumulative receipts, but approximately 80% of that total came from money he loaned his own campaign.
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…
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…
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…
