Listen to a special 2018 Midterm Election podcast that covered the DMV – featuring campaign night coverage with the candidates in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia. Broadcast journalism reporters covered...
Floreen loses bid in her run against Elrich as an Independent
Independent Dionne Reeder fails to unseat Elissa Silverman in the District’s most competitive midterm race.
After Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine’s swift victory, VA Democrats express hope for the future and 2019.
At Wesley United Methodist Church in the District, heavy rain on Tuesday failed to deter residents from turning out to vote in an election that will determine which party controls Congress. Volunteers at the polling...
Ben Jealous, the democratic gubernatorial candidate for Maryland, made a stop at a polling location in Bethesda to greet voters on election day. Jealous, a former president of the NAACP known for his progressive...
Washington, D.C. and Maryland residents are concerned their ballots are vulnerable to bad actors.
Pew Research says that as many as 15 percent of non-voters felt their vote would make no difference in the outcome of the 2016 election.
Photo by Mirah Curzer on Unsplash Natalie Niemeyer, a 25 year-old researcher for Democratic organizations, left her cubicle in D.C. this fall to do something she said she rarely gets to do: talk with voters face-to-face...
More than 52 thousand voters cast their ballots in Washington between Oct. 22 and Nov. 2. Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia offer early voting prior to Election Day. Early voting numbers in D.C. surpassed...
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