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Former Bush White House Senior Advisor Karl Rove will headline a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson on August 11 in Albuquerque. When Wilson and Rove last appeared together, in early June, Democrats criticized them for their alleged role in the firing of U.S.

The DCCC may abandon Hawaii’s special House election if the party cannot unite behind one of its two candidates in the race. CBS Las Vegas affiliate KLAS has

Here are a few photos of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman campaigning Monday night. (Photos after the jump).

Richard Mellon Scaife, billionaire newspaper publisher and right-wing philanthropist Sunday came out strongly in opposition to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. He writes that women must have control of their own bodies and that depriving poor women and teenagers of family planning services is not only wrong but counterproductive. From his column in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review: The Republican-led U.S.

Recent changes to the state’s unemployment compensation system will impose new requirements on people seeking benefits, which will in turn lead to fewer benefit payments by the state . # The Ocala-Start Banner offers a look at what these changes mean for people who are out of work: # Melanie Sellers didn’t receive her $198 unemployment compensation payment last week. # Sellers, who lost her job as a scanner technician at the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in the spring after a 20-year career, was denied a week of her jobless benefits because she could not show she had tried to contact at least five potential employers during the qualification period.

Today could be Abortion Day in the Senate. A non-public option compromise might be better than a compromised public option. A quarter of the opposition to

The North Star chapter of the Sierra Club is the latest statewide group to come out against a 2012 ballot question that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution. The influential lobby for the environment said Friday that it was jumping into the same-sex marriage debate because of its commitment to social justice. “To achieve our mission of environmental protection and a sustainable future for our planet, we must attain social justice and human rights at home and around the globe,” said Margaret Levin, the state director of the Sierra Club North Star Chapter

The perennial presidential candidate blogs that his quest to overturn the results of the 2008 election -- which he surely would have won had Barack Obama had to

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Moments ago, aboard the Straight Talk Express jet, the McCain campaign issued its first public comments on the indictment of Sen. Ted

Five legal experts discussed Elana Kagan’s prospects for confirmation to the Supreme Court today at the Aspen Institute, and Abbey Brandon of TWI’s video team

Reading The Washington Post’s write-up of Adm. Mullen’s call for a second U.S. troop deployment in Afghanistan this year, this poll figure stands out: the

Senator Orrin Hatch just tipped us off as to how Republicans intend to fight the Sotomayor nomination: As a Supreme Court justice, he warned, she’d be in a

Here at TWI we’ve been discussing how to cover the story of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s rise from relative obscurity to the national limelight as Sen. John

The extraordinarily comprehensive bankruptcy examiner’s report on Lehman Brothers is the gift that keeps on giving to financial reform advocates, above and

Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) has been out of the public eye for two years, and I’d forgotten how he can reduce everything to a football metaphor. An example, from

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (Pic by World Economic Forum, via Flickr) The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance will hold hearings today to consider bills to implement three free trade agreements, including the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, mired in controversy since its proposal under the Bush administration

An ugly video of Tea Party protesters, gathered outside the office of Rep. Mary Joe Kilroy (D-Ohio), mocking a pro-health care reform protester -- who sits

There’s plenty of criticism being directed today at Sen. Jim Bunning, the Kentucky Republican who single-handedly prevented the Democrats from extending the

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings will start June 28. McCain still leads former Rep. J. D. Hayworth in the latest poll of Arizona’s

About sixty percent of donations to Sarah Palin’s PAC went to consultants instead of candidates or campaigns. Democrats can’t find a GOP co-sponsor for

Senate Democrats this morning tried to pass a 30-day extension of unemployment benefits (among other things), designed to allow the upper-chamber more time to

The state Senate wrapped up the last of their budget bills yesterday and the House is expected to take up and vote on their remaining bills today, months before the end of the fiscal year for the first time in decades.

After challenging businesses across the country to submit some of their biggest regulatory gripes, Rep.

Conservative media personality and editor of the blog RedState Erick Erickson wants his readers to send Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a toy