Issue 9 July 21, 2025 Results AZ-07 Former Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva won a commanding majority of the vote in the Democratic primary for the special election to succeed her father in this border district, with Gen Z influencer and Democratic activist Deja Foxx in a distant second and
FEC Roundup #2 2nd Quarter 2025 One minor change from the last FEC roundup: I'm now going to be breaking out transfers from other authorized committees in Senate roundups, because in Senate races, there are a lot of representatives with House campaign accounts they can transfer to the
AZ-07 Deja Foxx vs. Adelita Grijalva vs. Daniel Hernandez vs. Patrick Harris vs. José Malvido First, the final week of independent expenditures in AZ-07: * $100K in digital ads supporting Adelita Grijalva from Progressive Promise * $7K in digital ads and $27.5K in TV ads supporting Adelita Grijalva from the Working
Issue 8 July 14, 2025 A housekeeping note: the AZ-07 preview, including a final update of the independent expenditure tracker, will be out tomorrow, followed by the Q2 FEC roundup later this week. News CO-01 I noticed attorney Melat Kiros’s FEC filing and had a hunch that she might
Issue 7 July 7, 2025 Outside $ Tracker AZ-07 * $34.5K in TV and digital ads for Adelita Grijalva from the Working Families Party * $10K in Facebook ads for Adelita Grijalva from the California Nurses Association * $20K in digital ads for Adelita Grijalva from Progressive Promise * $21K in mailers supporting Adelita
Issue #6 June 30, 2025 Outside $ Tracker AZ-07 * $51K in TV ads for Adelita Grijalva from Progressive Promise * $25K in digital ads and $5K in texting for Adelita Grijalva from the Working Families Party * $25K in unspecified advertising for Deja Foxx from L PAC Results New York Holy shit, you
I had every intention of finishing the NYC Council preview last night and sending it out right about now. I even had a few races already written up. Then I got to Penn Station, and NJTransit completely broke down. In classic NJT fashion, there was no communication to myself or
Issue #5 June 23, 2025 Outside $ Tracker AZ-07 * $60K in TV ads for Adelita Grijalva from the League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund * $37K in mailers, $33K in digital ads, and $23K in phone calls opposing Adelita Grijalva from Tucson Families Fed Up PAC VA-11 * $1M in TV ads for
New York City Mayor Adrienne Adams vs. Selma Bartholomew vs. Michael Blake vs. Andrew Cuomo vs. Brad Lander vs. Zohran Mamdani vs. Zellnor Myrie vs. Paperboy Prince vs. Jessica Ramos vs. Scott Stringer vs. Whitney Tilson So. Andrew Cuomo is back. The ex-governor resigned in disgrace after more than a
A housekeeping note: while I considered writing previews of the primaries for Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General, I ultimately opted against it because, while I view Democrats as favored to win both offices, Republicans do hold them at the present and seem to have every intention of fighting to keep
Issue 4 June 16, 2025 Sorry for the lack of an issue last week—deadlines at work and personal matters led the week to get away from me. But I'm back—and you can expect a Virginia preview before polls open tomorrow. Outside $ Tracker AZ-07 * $80K in TV
First, some quick ground rules. Due to a now-obsolete and all-powerful quirk of New Jersey primary ballot design known simply as “the line,” formal alliances between candidates for different offices are common, and I will note whenever such an alliance exists. (For the most part, those alliances will be between
Welcome to the first preview of the reincarnated Primary School. This one's a short one, only covering San Antonio's June 7 municipal runoffs (yes, the election is on a Saturday), but you can expect a much, much longer preview of New Jersey's June 10
Issue 3 June 2, 2025 Programming note: you can expect your first primary preview of the cycle on Saturday morning, covering San Antonio's local elections, followed by an extra-exhaustive New Jersey preview released contemporaneously with next week's regular issue on the morning of Monday, June 9.
Issue 2 May 27, 2025 Subscribe Pennsylvania results Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey lost reelection to more moderate challenger Corey O’Connor, the Allegheny County controller and previously a member of the Pittsburgh City Council. O’Connor, who received extensive funding from right-wing business interests, successfully painted the progressive incumbent as
FEC Roundup 1st Quarter 2025 Subscribe Welcome to the first FEC roundup! As a piece of content released in the first month of the relaunch, this one will be free—but after this one, FEC roundups will only be available to subscribers at the $8/month or $80/year tier.
Every week, I'm going to also publish a brief summary of three to five news items from the week's paid issue. This is what that will generally look like, though the level of detail may vary from week to week. NJ-LD-22: The president of the New
Issue 1 May 19, 2025 Subscribe Welcome to Primary School's new era. There’s one main author now, the writer formerly known as Nick Tagliaferro—a pseudonym of which I have grown tired. The pricing structure has also changed, and I'm going to be operating on
Well, I'm gonna give this a try. Primary School went on hiatus due to changes in the personal and professional lives of its authors. But while my coauthor has moved on, I haven't. I wouldn't know how to walk away from politics even if