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…
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has suspended the state’s May 16 U.S. House primaries days before early voting was set to begin, throwing the congressional elections into chaos after absentee and mail-in ballots had already gone out and some voters had already cast ballots. The order applies only to Louisiana’s U.S. House races. Other contests scheduled…
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…
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…
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…
Tania Nyman, a veteran community advocate known for her fierce battles over local public schools and city governance, has officially launched her campaign for the Democratic nomination in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District. Speaking to a crowd of supporters at the Mid City Ballroom in Baton Rouge, Nyman framed her candidacy as a necessary escalation of…
