Louisiana has spent years trying to compete with the rest of the South — and falling short. People are leaving, businesses are hesitant, and too often, policymakers have answered by tweaking around the edges instead of fixing the core problem. But something has started to change. Under Governor Landry's leadership, Louisiana finally took a meaningful step forward by simplifying its tax code and moving to a flat 3 percent income tax — now the lowest in the South and among the

There are plenty of ways to evaluate a politician. Voting records. Policy positions. Coalition building. Leadership. And then there’s judgment. In 2026, you don’t need a deep dive into white papers or committee transcripts to get a sense of someone’s instincts. You can just open their social media. In the case of Senator Bill Cassidy, what you find is… something else entirely. Let’s start with the now-infamous gumbo post . Cassidy proudly shared a photo of a bowl of gumbo — c

A new poll out of Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race is providing an early snapshot of what is shaping up to be one of the most competitive Republican primaries in the country—and it suggests Congresswoman Julia Letlow is gaining serious momentum. According to a survey conducted March 11–12 among likely Republican voters, Letlow leads a crowded field with 27%, narrowly ahead of incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy at 26%, with State Treasurer John Fleming at 19%. Notably, nearly a third of

For years, Louisiana patients and independent pharmacies have warned that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are driving up prescription drug costs while quietly squeezing community providers out of the health care system. Last week, Congress took a meaningful step to address those concerns—and Louisiana leaders are positioned to build on that progress. President Donald Trump  signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, which includes major PBM reform provisions authored

With apologies for stealing and changing this line : OK, Landry, Nelson, Emerson, et. al. were right. Last week , Louisiana’s Revenue Estimating Conference held its end-of-calendar-year meeting to revise numbers. These revisions can mean the state might have extra money from past budget years to spend on essentially one-time items, extra money for this budget year to spend on anything, and more to spend on the upcoming fiscal year 2027 budget – or it might be reversals in thi

Nearly 40 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Thornburg v. Gingles (1986), requiring states to consider race when drawing districts under the Voting Rights Act. That decision set in motion a deeply flawed standard, one that still binds states like Louisiana to an unworkable and unjust framework. Today, nearly four decades later, that federal mandate continues to tie our hands, locking us into a system that penalizes states regardless of the path we choose.

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear Louisiana v. Callais , a case that could finally rein in decades of judicial overreach in redistricting and return power to where it belongs — the states and their elected legislatures. At issue is whether federal courts have taken Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act far beyond its original intent. What began as a law to prevent discrimination in voting has increasingly been used to force states to sort voters by race, creating districts e

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