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House Republicans will need to break a streak to retain the chamber in the 2026 midterm elections, though history is working against them.

With 317 congressional seats and nearly 18,000 local positions at stake, the May 12 midterm election results in the Philippines mean different things to people across the archipelago. But even a few hours after the unofficial results came in, the brute facts had already become clear.

Analysis: The 2026 midterm election will largely be about Donald Trump. That puts Maine and North Carolina in Democratic grasps, while Republicans eye Georgia, Michigan and New Hampshire. Eric Garcia reports

Some Republican senators are taking a wait-and-see approach on President Trump’s tariffs as the 2026 midterm elections loom.

Senate Republicans dine with Trump at Mar-a-Lago before NRSC retreat to strategize for 2026 midterm elections.

Cochise county supervisor Peggy Judd agrees to plead guilty to misdemeanor charge

When Donald Trump launched his 2024 presidential campaign after a disappointing midterm election for Republicans, his trajectory was something of a mystery

Two officials from a rural Arizona county pleaded not guilty to felony charges for delaying the certification of their county’s 2022 midterm election results

Voters cast 36,683,450 absentee/mail-in ballots in the 2022 general election. Of that total 549,824—or 1.5%—were rejected, roughly equal to the 1.4% rejection rate in 2018, the most recent midterm election, and up from the 1.0% and 0.8% rejection rates in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election cycles, respectively.

Election workers across 22 different states told NPR they've received threats or felt unsafe doing their jobs, and many are worried for what the 2024 presidential election will bring.

Almost half of all voters in the 2022 midterm elections cast their ballots before Election Day either by mail or through early voting, with Asian and Hispanic voters leading the way