The RNC is considering Dallas for a 2026 midterm convention timed to boost early voting, as a major Texas Senate race between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton intensifies national political stakes.

A federal three-judge panel this week upheld California’s Proposition 50, clearing the way for the state to use newly drawn congressional maps in the 2026 election cycle. But a sharp dissent from a Trump-appointed judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has now put the case on a potential collision course with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Texas’ long-awaited school choice expansion is moving forward but its first year is already colliding with legal uncertainty and election-year politics that could sharply limit how much real “choice” families actually have.

After nearly six decades and more than half a billion dollars a year in taxpayer support, the federal government has formally exited the public broadcasting business.