Wyoming also has primaries today, but they're all on the Republican side—every remotely winnable district in both houses of the state legislature has an uncontested Democratic primary this year, which has not always been the case in past election cycles. That leaves us with just Florida and
I apologize for the interruption in our regularly scheduled programming. As a result of that unplanned but necessary hiatus, this PAC Tracker covers all independent expenditures filed with the FEC to date in races I’m watching by the end of the day yesterday, August 16, and reports new expenses
Hi everyone; sorry about the brief break to attend to some personal matters. I'm back and will be catching up in advance of the 8/18 primaries, starting with this FEC roundup; due to the brief and extremely unplanned break, I won't be putting the paywall
Without getting into too much detail, due to some unexpected bad news, I am going to have to take a break of a few days to attend to some family and personal matters. This means I won't be able to do the August 11 preview. I will catch
Aloha, and welcome to the Hawaiʻi primary preview. For a small state, it's a remarkably busy primary season; I decided to skip the primaries for governor and HI-02 as neither is particularly serious and the incumbents should win easily. Polls close at 7 PM Hawaiʻi time, which
This is a short one due to the lack of meaningful Democratic primaries in Tennessee, and an oddly-timed one because of Tennessee's Thursday primaries. However, I still have an all-write-in primary for you, and how often do you see that? Hawaii's preview will
As stated before, I decided to focus on Michigan over Washington when it came to state legislatures, but I will do some sort of post-primary piece for the Primary Previews tier on the Washington legislature once the primary season ends in about a month, so you'll get
Damn, you people fit a lot of primaries in one mitten. The most expensive Democratic Senate primary in US history! The DSA-establishment coalition to crush Shri Thanedar! What feels like half of the blue seats in your legislature! Writing this was a lot, man. (Glad to be back.) As
These tallies will cover all independent expenditures filed with the FEC to date in races I’m watching by the end of the day yesterday, August 2, and report new expenses filed with the FEC since the last PAC Tracker’s cutoff, July 26. Future editions will update the tallies
In federal races, I'm going to start adding a final IE tally to preview items to give you an idea of how much has been spent boosting or opposing each candidate. If no IE tally is included in a race item, I didn't find any independent
As mentioned in the preceding FEC roundup, you've got a whole lot of content headed your way this week. Next up is the PAC Tracker, followed by previews of Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Virginia, and Washington. Chicago Mayor Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias became the latest centrist to enter
You can expect an absolute barrage of content today and tomorrow, starting with this FEC roundup and continuing with a regular issue, the weekly PAC Tracker, and previews of Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Virginia, and Washington's primaries. (Then there'll be a Tennessee preview by Thursday, and a