AP called the Texas 30th District results by 7:20 pm Tuesday. Jasmine Crockett handily took 77% of the vote in her race against Republican James Rodgers, who took only 20%, and Independent Zachariah Manning who took 2% of the vote.
The narrative promulgated by some in the media and encouraged by Jack Coatar’s campaign for aldermanic president implies that the city’s future would be imperiled if unrestrained progressives were in charge. Despite his record of working on behalf of shady developers, they saw him as the pro…
Alderwoman Megan Green trounced Alderman Jack Coater in their race to replace convicted felon Lewis Reed as president of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen.
Incumbent Congresswoman Cori Bush handily defeated Republican Andrew Jones to retain her District 1 seat, garnering 73% of the votes.
Dr. Sam Page toppled his Democrat-turned-Republican rival Mark Mantovani on Tuesday to win his first full term as St. Louis County Executive on Tuesday night.
An uphill battle for Democratic Senate candidate Trudy Busch Valentine officially became too steep when Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt registered a win in the contest to replace retiring GOP Sen. Roy Blunt on Tuesday night.
With a commanding lead early in his race over his Libertarian opponent, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell was looking ahead to his next four years in office on Tuesday night.
The record of the Republican-dominated Missouri state government is an abysmal one. Regrettably, there has been no effective opposition to their extremist policies and disingenuous governance since the collapse of the once-dominant state Democratic Party. There has been a lack of any effecti…
In a move highlighting a growing divide among Black leaders and organizations in Missouri over a push to legalize marijuana, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Tuesday announced she would oppose the measure appearing on the Nov. 8 ballot as Amendment 3.
(Left to right) Yvette Simpson CEO of Democracy for America with mayoral candidate Treasurer Tishaura Jones and Kayla Reed, co-founder and executive director of Action St. Louis, strike a pose in front of the Black Lives Matter bus that was at Central Baptist Church for the election day, Tue…
St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones made history Tuesday night by becoming the first Black woman to be elected mayor of St. Louis.
This is arguably the most problematic, violable and dangerous time in the country’s history
The clock is ticking, we’re just days away from the general municipal election happening on April 6. A new mayor of St. Louis will be elected, along with three new members to the St. Louis Public School Board and a number of ballot issues that will directly affect city and county residents w…
St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones and Alderwoman Cara Spencer on Tuesday evening took the stage at Nine PBS for the second and last televised debate between the two candidates prior to next week’s unprecedented election.
The St. Louis American, Nine PBS, 5 On Your Side, and St. Louis Public Radio partnered to host a live debate between Tishaura Jones and Cara Spencer for the 2021 St. Louis mayoral election that aired on March 30th, at 7pm.
The debate will be simulcast live across all stations and livestreamed on stlamerican.com, ninepbs.org, stlpublicradio.org and ksdk.com
In the first televised debate since the mayoral primary, St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones asserted she was ready to lead the city with her experience and professional relationships, while Alderwoman Cara Spencer drove home the fact that she will come prepared to lead with a 10-point plan t…
With less than three weeks until St. Louis elects its next mayor, both Alderwoman Cara Spencer and St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones are campaigning like never before as they head into one of the most competitive mayoral elections in the city’s history.
St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones and Alderwoman Cara Spencer are running neck and neck in thelatest poll conducted by Show Me Victories, with Jones cinching 40% percent of surveyed voters — a 5% lead over Spencer.
Longtime St. Louis Comptroller Darlene Green won her primary on Tuesday with 78.16% of the vote. She ran unopposed.
Sixty-one-year-old Danny Thomas walked out of Fanning Elementary School in Tower Grove South on Tuesday morning having done something he had never done before in his life: Vote.
Show Me Integrity volunteers are outside polling places Tuesday petitioning for a November ballot initiative that would seek to shift the responsibility of redrawing the city’s wards from the Board of Aldermen to an independent citizen redistricting commission.
A national organization dedicated to increasing Black political representation at all governmental levels on Monday announced a $25,000 digital ad campaign in support of Treasurer Tishaura Jones’ bid for mayor.
Tishaura Jones, the current Treasurer for the City of St. Louis, is the strongest and clearest choice for its Mayor. Ms. Jones is an experienced and capable public official, having served at the state level in the Missouri House of Representatives for five years, and at the local level, havi…
As the St. Louis mayoral primary approaches, individuals and organizations have publicly announced who they hope will become the city’s most powerful leader. Below is a look at each candidate’s endorsements thus far.
Aldermanic President Lewis Reed’s campaign had taken the lead in fundraising by almost $75,000, according to a new round of campaign finance reports filed Monday.
With one week until the primary election in St. Louis, mayoral candidates’ political action committees (PACs) are raking in big money from influential donors.
The St. Louis primary mayoral election is less than two weeks away on March 2, and it will determine the two top candidates who will advance to the general election on April 6.
Ahead of the St. Louis Primary Election on March 2, The St. Louis American is asking a series of questions of the candidates for mayor of the city of St. Louis. Following are their responses.
Cara Spencer, St. Louis alderwoman and mayoral candidate, began airing an ad Tuesday attacking Aldermanic President Lewis Reed’s political record, an effort Reed called a “sad old racist trope.”
2021 St. Louis mayoral candidates respond
Ahead of the St. Louis Primary Election on March 2, The St. Louis American is asking a series of questions of the candidates for mayor of the city of St. Louis. Following are their responses to this week’s question:
There’s a large bureaucracy that actually runs the city of St. Louis, the real job of the mayor is to decide where the city needs to go and determine the best way to get there, adjusting the course as required by circumstances.
As the St. Louis mayoral primary nears, the race’s four candidates have submitted reports to the Missouri Ethics Commission that disclose campaign finance activity through mid-January.
Ahead of the St. Louis Primary Election on March 2, The St. Louis American is asking a series of questions of the candidates for mayor of the city of St. Louis. Following are their responses to this week’s question:
More and more St. Louis County residents are watching the upcoming mayoral race in St. Louis. While the plight and potential of these regional neighbors are intertwined, it has become increasingly clear that progress in St. Louis yields regression and deterioration in St. Louis County.
A major workers’ union on Thursday endorsed St. Louis mayoral candidate Tishuara Jones while pressing the need to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Ahead of the St. Louis Primary Election on March 2, The St. Louis American is asking a series of questions of the candidates for mayor of the city of St. Louis. Following are their responses.
St. Louis drag star Maxi Glamour will host Qu’art’s online mayoral debate at 6 p.m. Jan. 18.
The candidates for 16 St. Louis wards running for office are set now that the Jan. 5 election filing deadline has passed.
The women of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Gamma Omega Chapter and the St. Louis Area Voting Initiative (SLAVI) are pleased to announce they are hosting a virtual St. Louis City Mayoral Candidate Forum on Thursday, January 14 at 7:00 pm. The event will be live-streamed on the Gam…
With the news that Mayor Lyda Krewson will not seek a second term, all eyes are on who will be running to replace her in an election that will look totally different from those in the past after the passage of Proposition D on Nov. 3.
The chambers of the U.S. House and Senate were breached Wednesday by protesters from a nearby Trump rally, overwhelming security and sending elected officials and staff into hiding.
Early Wednesday, Jan. 6, when one-third of the DeKalb votes in Georgia were counted, many in the United States and around the world breathed a collective sigh of relief as Democratic Senate nominee Raphael Warnock took more than a 40,000 vote lead over Republican incumbent Sen. Kelly Leoffle…
The Squad 2021 (left to right): Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Rep. Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Rep. Cori Bush (MO-01), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5).
Reverend Raphael Warnock, democratic nominee for the U.S. senate and senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (Martin Luther King’s former church), is pictured in a TV ad encouraging Georgians to get out the vote on the first day of early voting, Monday, Dec. 14.
Monday, Dec. 14, President Joe Biden, spoke after all electoral votes were cast, 306 to Biden, 232 to President Donald Trump, making Biden and Kamala Harris officially the president-elect and vice president-elect of the United States. Here are some excerpts from his speech:
With the passage of Proposition D in St. Louis on Nov. 3, political analysts say 74% of Black voters are more likely to hit the polls in March and April for the municipal election.
Cara Spencer, Lewis Reed also expected to run against incumbent Lyda Krewson
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