By Leann Ray | Editor-in-chief
“We defeated Patrick Morrissey's handpicked Supreme Court justices and elected a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat in Jim Douglas in a statewide race to the Intermediate Court of Appeals. We’re feeling cautiously optimistic.” — Democratic Party State Chair Mike Pushkin
“We don't expect to lose the majority of the remainder. We feel like we're in a very good spot.” — Republican Party State Chair Josh Holstein
The West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia. (West Virginia Legislative Photography)
By Henry Culvyhouse
With polling heavily in Democrats’ favor throughout the nation, even ruby red West Virginia is seeing some healthy competition in the 2026 midterm election.
Chris Clagett is the Republican candidate in the 91st District for the House of Delegates. He faces Democratic challenger David Michaels. (Source: Sample ballot from the West Virginia Secretary of State’s Office)
By Amelia Ferrell Knisely
A Republican House of Delegates candidate in Berkeley County remains on the ballot after authoring several racist posts on social media that targeted Black women and Muslims. He reportedly called the Confederate flag “beautiful.”
A classroom at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in South Salt Lake is pictured on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
By Amelia Ferrell Knisely
Berkeley County Schools plans to sue state officials over public school funding as pressure mounts in the courts to deal with the issue. Families, school officials and their lawyers are turning to the judicial system for help after lawmakers didn’t make any changes to the school funding formula this year.
The West Virginia State Treasurer’s Office released the 2025-2026 annual Hope Scholarship on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026. (Screenshot of report)
By Henry Culvyhouse
Kanawha County leads the state in the amount of students participating in the Hope Scholarship during the 2025-26 school year, according to an annual report released Monday by the West Virginia State Treasurer’s Office.
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Voters mark their primary election ballots at Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, on March 3, 2026. This year’s statewide ballot measures are written, on average, at a graduate-school reading level, according to a new report. (Photo by John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate)
By Anna Claire Vollers
This year’s statewide ballot measures are written, on average, at a graduate-school reading level, according to a new report.
By Ashley Murray
Both Democratic and Republican candidates during the heated midterm election cycle have had to navigate deep voter resentment of data centers that will power artificial intelligence.
By Jonathan Shorman
President Donald Trump’s eleventh-hour campaign to intervene in California’s vote counting encountered the first signs of resistance in federal court over the weekend, with appellate judges expressing deep skepticism over the legality of the effort.
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