The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) has identified several states where legislative races in the 2023-2024 election cycle are important, while declaring it a “top political priority” to fend off Democrat-affiliated groups targeting Republican majorities in state chambers. “A mere 33 seats are standing in the way of Democrats taking back eight legislative chambers across…

Republicans have gained a supermajority in the Louisiana State House after a Democratic member switched parties. State Rep. Francis Thompson, who has represented an area of northeast Louisiana as a Democrat for almost five decades, officially moved to the Republican side on Friday, March 17. The 81-year-old lawmaker has described himself as a “conservative” and…

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. So begins “The Hound of Heaven.” The narrator of this poem…