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Last week, the populist theocratic authoritarian former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore beat Luther Strange in a special election to fulfill the rest of Jeff

Analysts say the campaign finance changes spurred by the Supreme Court have the potential to unleash campaign spending up and down the ballot unlike anything Maryland has seen before.

Russian hackers used facebook ads to sow discord after 2015 riots

It's not hard to imagine how Donald Trump could win a second term. Sorry, liberals.

The city of Laurel’s November general election will have several newcomers challenging current City Council members for the at-large, Ward 1 and Ward 2 seats.

A new poll shows all of the seven Democrats running for governor have little support statewide, and most primary voters haven't tuned in to the race.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's victory is complicated by the rise of right-wing parties.

The silly season is just beginning and won’t be over until June Hold on to your hats, it’s going to be a wild ride.

Two Republicans announce race for Baltimore County Executive

Two Republicans are launching campaigns for Baltimore County executive: Pat McDonough and Al Redmer.

Local attorney Charles “Chad” Curlett has requested the courts disqualify rival candidate Ivan Bates from the Democratic primary for Baltimore state’s attorney.

Candidates are starting to register for the local and state races in Harford County in the 2018 gubernatorial election.

I hate it when politicians play media critic. But Hillary Clinton gets it right in her book when she warns of a right-wing media build-up shaping politics.

She seems clueless and completely out of touch with the mainstream.

New Hampshire shows why election commission can't be trusted.

Trump's rise doesn't have to follow Hitler's path if voters intervene.

Maryland's gerrymandered 6th congressional district is destined to be redrawn after next year

Corrogan R. Vaughn, a perennial Republican candidate who challended Re. Elijah E. Cummings twice, died Aug. 17 from a heart attack at his Pikesville home. He was 51.

The first challenger to County Executive Allan Kittleman has filed to run in the 2018 election, as well as the first Democrat in the race for the District 5 County Council seat and the first candidate in the District 9 state Senate race.

Mr. Trump has been a highly unusual president in almost every way, but the amount of obsessive attention paid to his every word and deed may be what is most unusual of all, says David Horsey.

Minorities and the poor are the big losers in campaign to purge voter rolls.

Batavick: Internet has brought unfortunate consequences to politics

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For a Republican governor running for re-election in a blue state, arguably the most valuable political superpower is the ability to build a bipartisan voter coalition.

David Trone has learned at least one thing from his unsuccessful congressional bid last year: Self-funding a political campaign is a turnoff for some voters.

Anxiety is rising in the White House over Special Counsel Robert Mueller's empaneling a grand jury to investigate possible coordination between President Trump's campaign and the Russian government.

College Park officials are weighing a plan that would make their city the largest in Maryland to give voting rights to non-citizens.

President Donald Trump and his administration are expressing moral values that have no market value, says Rev. Jesse Jackson.

A wise man once told me that in politics, "Always expect the unexpected."

The latest effort to fool voters into believing Democrats have something new to say, or better policies to try, isn't a better deal, it's a raw deal, says Cal Thomas.

Laurel Mayor Craig Moe plans to throw his hat into the ring for the 2018 county council race.

The president's election integrity panel is intended to have a chilling effect on non-GOP voters, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

Democrats needed an inspirational platform and they still haven't got one.

Four panelists, all leaders of legal organizations, discussed their strategies for dealing with Trump’s presidency as part of the NAACP’s Continuing Legal Education seminar Sunday.

Maryland politicians made their annual trip to the Tawes Crab and Clam Bake in the Eastern Shore town of Crisfield Wednesday, including Gov. Larry Hogan.

Howard County's Republican county executive, Allan Kittleman, campaigned against the enactment of a citizens' election fund.

Four incumbent state legislators who represent parts of southwestern Baltimore County have filed for re-election as a slate, a contrast to the 2014 election

Less than a year from the Democratic primary election, State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has invested much of her image as Baltimore's top prosecutor in youth and community engagement. She hopes her office's programs break down citizens' distrust of law enforcement — and help keep young people on the right track in a city where crime continues to spike.

aryland Sen. Ben Cardin raised nearly $1 million in the second quarter of 2017.

Sinclair Broadcast Group triples down on its "must-air" segments featuring former Trump aide Boris Epshteyn even as critics warn against getting too political.

Donald Trump's presidency cries out for deeper scrutiny by the mainstream news media he so defensively demeans as a generator of fake news, says Jules Witcover.

A state lawmaker running for the Democratic nomination in the 6th Congressional District expects to report a healthy first fundraising quarter, despite uncertainy about the incumbent.

Aberdeen council member suggests putting two versions of a city charter on the 2019 ballot as the council and mayor work toward a resolution of changes to the charter despite the failure of a referendum petition drive by the mayor.

Aberdeen Mayor Patrick McGrady announced Thursday that he did not get the required 1,990 signatures on his petition to bring recent changes to the city charter to referendum.

The race for Howard County Council is gearing up to be a crowded one, with over a dozen candidates now competing for a seat.

Never before has there been such an audacious effort to influence an election. And the tepid responses from Obama and Trump administrations have only served to further erode my faith in the process.

The Taneytown City Council is expected to vote Monday evening on whether or not to lower the required age of candidacy from 25 to 21.

Maryland officials should resist federal commission's assault on voter privacy.

States refuse to cooperate with fraudulent voting fraud inquiry.

Maryland elections officials on Monday denied the Trump administration's request for personal information about the state's voters as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged voter fraud.