Another Democrat, co-founder of Maine Beer Company Dan Kleban, has entered the race to try to unseat longtime Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in 2026. Announcing his candidacy on Wednesday, the 48-year-old Cumberland County resident said he’s running because he feels a responsibility to do what’s right for Maine, like when he started his company […]
During a visit to New Hampshire Friday, U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego said New Hampshire “definitely has to be in the mix” to be the first primary election in the 2028 U.S. presidential cycle despite telling the state to “move on” a few years back. In 2021, as Democrats debated whether to move the beginning of […]
Both the Republican and Democratic primaries for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire have competitions now that state Sen. Dan Innis and progressive organizer Karishma Manzur have announced campaigns. Manzur, an Exeter biomedical scientist, announced her candidacy in the Democratic primary Wednesday. As a researcher, Manzur studied Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy. Politically, she’s perhaps most known […]
Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s approval rating has dipped in recent months, according to a new survey from the University of New Hampshire, with almost equal percentages of Granite Staters approving and disapproving of her performance. That same survey found that majorities of respondents disapproved of some actions by the Republican-led Legislature this term — such as […]
A largely unknown oysterman and military veteran, Graham Platner garnered widespread attention this week when he launched a U.S. Senate campaign to try to unseat longtime Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins. Most of the candidates running against Collins so far are political newcomers like Graham, but his splashy campaign launch in the The New York […]
For New Hampshire disability rights advocates, the slate of election-related bills signed by Gov. Kelly Ayotte last week represents a mixed bag. On the one hand, Ayotte signed bipartisan legislation to require that all cities and towns provide accessible voting machines at local elections — not just those with state and federal candidates. On the […]
As President Donald Trump wages a pressure campaign on Republican-led states to redistrict ahead of schedule and gerrymander their congressional district maps, New Hampshire — which had a contentious redistricting cycle in 2022 — has drawn some attention. So far, though, political support for state redistricting appears slim. On Wednesday, Texas Republicans released the first […]
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking the voter registration lists of several states — representing data on millions of Americans — and other election information ahead of the 2026 midterms, raising fears about how the Trump administration plans to use the information. The DOJ is also demanding Colorado turn over all records related to […]
New Hampshire’s 2nd District Congressional race next year could end up a repeat of 2024 with Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Maggie Goodlander facing Republican Lily Tang Williams. The two are the first and, so far, only candidates to launch campaigns 11 months out from the filing deadline for the primary. Goodlander was elected in 2024, […]
Scott Brown, a former U.S. senator for Massachusetts and ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa during the first Trump administration, announced Wednesday he is running for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. Brown, a Republican, joins an early race to replace Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who announced in March that she would retire at the end of […]