The Tennessean's letters reflect the views of the authors and add to public discourse. At issue: Rebuttal to Rep. Gino ...

and elections officials still need to verify candidates' petition signatures. Here’s what could be contested on the primary ballot. Five people are running in a nonpartisan primary to replace ...

Tennessee Republicans aiming to push through ... MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Republican lawmakers, many of whom traveled to Washington, D.C. last week for Trump’s inauguration invoked the ...

She was reelected to the U.S. Senate in 2024 with 89.5% of the Republican primary vote and ... A flood of GOP candidates in deep-red Tennessee would line up to replace him in the Senate.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican Tennessee lawmakers said Tuesday they filed a bill to challenge a landmark United States Supreme Court decision that prevents states from restricting public ...

Lawmakers approved a $447 million statewide publicly funded school voucher program last week, with the 23-page bill easily passing in the Republican controlled senate (20–13) and house (54–44).

Immigration is usually a federal issue, but some Republican-led states are trying to play a bigger role in President Donald Trump's effort for mass deportation. Lawmakers from Florida to Idaho have ...

Immigration is usually a federal issue, but some Republican-led states are trying ... to Idaho have proposed new ways to get involved. And Tennessee's governor got everything on his wish list ...

About three weeks after last November's election, Spring Dawson-McClure received an unassuming postcard from the North Carolina GOP informing her that her ballot ... the state Republican Party's ...