November 1 By Louis Jacobson Oregon Governor Democratic-held open seat Democratic nominee: Former House Speaker Tina Kotek Republican nominee: Former state House Minority Leader Christine Drazan Independent candidate: Former state Sen. Betsy Johnson Oregon is a state that generally votes Democratic, but with the unpopularity…

October 28 By Kaia Hubbard When House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy unveiled his party’s “Commitment to America” platform last month, rolling out its midterm pitch to voters, he surmised that Democrats “have no plan to fix all the problems they created” – citing inflation, crime…

October 25 By Kaia Hubbard A group of progressive lawmakers on Tuesday withdrew an inflammatory letter urging President Joe Biden to reconsider his Ukraine policy that was released as the Democratic speaker of the House was in the awkward position of assuring a summit of…

October 21 By Kaia Hubbard Former Vice President Mike Pence drew laughter in a speech on Wednesday when he declined to say whether he’d vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. “Well, there might be somebody else I’d prefer more,” Pence quipped while…

October 20 By Elliott Davis Jr. President Joe Biden is looking to stem a root cause of a recent uptick in illegal immigration, enacting a politically risky policy in order to blunt Republican attacks on the issue ahead of crucial midterm elections but drawing the…

October 19 By Susan Milligan President Joe Biden made a deal Tuesday with rank-and-file Democrats: Elect more Democrats to Congress, and he’ll sign a law codifying abortion rights on the January anniversary of the 1973 Roe v Wade decision the Supreme Court reversed in June….

October 18 By Alex DeMarban Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Monday continued to come under fire from his leading challengers for missing debates, including Monday’s lunchtime event organized by the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. Dunleavy has attended two of the five debates he said he would…

October 17 By Susan Milligan An unpopular president. Domestic abuse and other scandals. A deeply unhappy electorate displeased with the direction the country is headed. All of those things would once have been defining factors in races for the House and Senate, almost ensuring a…

October 15 By Becky Bohrer Ben Stevens, a former Alaska Senate president and a son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, has died. He was 63. The Alaska State Troopers said they responded to a report Thursday evening of a hiker having a medical…

October 14 By Claire Hansen In nine televised hearings over the course of more than four months, the House committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, made public heaps of new information about the violent insurrection: hours of illuminating witness testimony, reams of documents…

October 13 By James Brooks Even before his truck was stolen, Anchorage Republican Sen. Roger Holland had been hearing from his constituents about crime. As he seeks re-election on Nov. 8, he’s made the topic a top issue, but so have his two challengers, Democratic…

October 13 By Elliott Davis Jr. The Treasury Department’s Office of the Inspector General is investigating whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis improperly used coronavirus relief funds to transport migrants to Massachusetts following a request from members of the latter state’s congressional delegation. The news comes…