Politics: Member Stations

Leah Daughtry is a preacher and a political insider. Her task: to build a temporary city for 30,000 people for next summer's national political convention.

The conservative Texas Senator is building a deep network of supporters in Southern states that will vote on March 1st.

Campaigns for Congress and the White House are barred from directly working with independent groups that can raise unlimited amounts of money. But states set their own rules on coordination.

Nearly 6 million former felons will not be able to cast ballots in next year's presidential election. Thousands are trying to change that by petitioning for clemency.

House party, that is. Even as campaigns get larger, candidates who want to win in New Hampshire continue to meet voters one-on-one. Why does this curious tradition survive?

The New Jersey governor is showing off his credentials as a former prosecutor to argue he can fight terrorism.

After months of looking at a number of Republican candidates, the state's evangelicals appear to be shifting toward Cruz.

The state has taken 42 Syrian refugees since 2011, but state Rep. Glen Casada says they should be removed and prevented from re-entering Tennessee for safety reasons.

The billionaire's support remains essentially unchanged at 22 percent, far ahead of other Republican candidates in the state.

Eugene V. Debs, who went to prison for his socialist beliefs, gave a famous speech in Ohio in 1918 urging resistance to the World War I draft.