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536 items of 1682 · updated Oct 29, 2026, 6:00 AM ET
IL HB 1553 (Election Day Waiver) latest action on 2026-03-27: House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c), re-referred to Rules Committee.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
IL HB 2516 PFAS product ban: latest action on 2025-08-15 was Public Act 104-0231.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org)
Two years after Hurricane Helene, North Carolina voters are frustrated with a slow recovery that could carry a political price, Grist reports.
Source: Grist (grist.org)
Republicans have spent an estimated $183 million on television ads focused on transgender-related attacks against Democrats in the final phase of this year's midterm elections
Source: ABC News (abcnews.com)
President Donald Trump said his administration is terminating a Biden-era rule that aimed to cut methane emissions from oil and gas drilling.
Source: NPR (npr.org)
WV HB 4652 would exempt a municipal Utility in which the members are elected from local taxes and fees; its latest action on 2026-01-23: To House Local Governments.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
WV SB 935 would eliminate the business and occupation tax exemption for certain coal-fired merchant power plants; latest action 2026-02-26: to House Energy and Public Works.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
WV HB 5275, providing the circumstances that a qualified voter is authorized to vote an absentee ballot by mail, latest action 2026-02-05: to House Judiciary.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
WI SB 597, allowing voters to automatically receive absentee ballots for every election and eliminating the indefinitely confined voter status, failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
WI SB 518, relating to polling place accessibility, failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
AK SB 64, an act relating to elections, voting, voter registration, election administration and campaign contributions; latest action 2026-05-12: (H) Minutes (HSTA).
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski endorsed Democratic candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins over Trump-backed Bernadette Wilson in the Alaska governor's race a week before Election Day.
Source: NBC News (nbcnews.com)
PA HB 1539, an Act establishing the Electric School Bus Grant Program and imposing duties on the Department of Education, was re-referred to Energy on 2025-06-24.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org)
President Trump and Texas Senate candidate James Talarico held dueling rallies in Texas one week before the midterm elections; Trump held rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
Pennsylvania HB 37 amends the Pennsylvania Election Code on canvassing of absentee and mail-in ballots and election funding; it was referred to State Government on 2026-06-18.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Grist reports a Trump EPA proposal would let oil and gas companies leak more methane, saving them billions and worsening global warming.
Source: Grist (grist.org)
Trump says he will roll back Biden-era methane rules for oil and gas companies; the EPA plans to ease regulations aimed at curbing methane leaks.
Source: NBC News (nbcnews.com)
A lawsuit alleges nearly 3,000 Cobb County voters have not received mail ballots and want a judge to order the election board to overnight absentee ballots to make the Nov. 3 deadline.
Source: Democracy Docket (news alerts) (democracydocket.com)
The New York Times reports the Justice Department is stepping up moves on Comey and others as midterm elections near, and that court paperwork bears signs of urgency, typos and unorthodox tactics.
Source: The New York Times (nytimes.com)
With a week to go until the midterm elections, President Trump staged two campaign rallies in Texas on Tuesday; Talarico and Paxton hold dueling rallies in Texas.
Source: CBS News (cbsnews.com)