Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as President Biden’s press secretary during the second half of his term, has switched her registration from “Democratic” to “independent”, according to this news story.
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On May 28, the New Hampshire House Election Law Committee passed SB 222. It moves the non-presidential primary from September to June. The bill decouples the petition deadline for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties from the date of the primary. It says the petition deadline would be eleven weeks before the general election, which keeps it in August. Unfortunately, the bill doesn’t decouple the deadline for filing a declaration of candidacy, so if the bill becomes law, independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties would need to file the declaration in March, which. In the case of presidential candidates, that would violate Anderson v Celebrezze.
Texas holds a special U.S. House election on November 4, 2025, to fill the vacancy in the 18th district in Houston. The American Solidarity Party will ru Reyna Anderson, the party’s first candidate expected to be on the ballot in a Texas federal election. The filing deadline is September 3, so the full candidate list is not yet known.
No candidate in a Texas special election needs a petition, and if the candidate is a member of an unqualified party, the candidate may still have the appropriate party name on the ballot.
On June 2, the Nevada Senate passed AB 597, which lets independent voters vote in partisan primaries.
On June 2, Kshama Sawant announced that she will run for U.S. House in Washington’s Ninth district in 2026. She was an elected member of the Seattle city council from 2014 to 2024. Although Seattle city elections are non-partisan, she was a member of Socialist Alternative while she was on the council. She is now a member of Revolutionary Workers.
The Ninth District is the most overwhelmingly Democratic U.S. House district in Washington. In 2024, only two candidates, both Democrats, ran for the seat. Congressmember Adam Smith is the incumbent. Thanks to Joshua Fauver for this news.