Politics

Jorge Malavet supports the Trump administration and its efforts to deport immigrants who are in the country without authorization

Star Black launched her campaign to represent former Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district three days after leaving the Federal Emergency Management Agency

Jorge Malavet worked as a branch chief in a field office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Jorge Malavet is competing in the Republican primary in the Ninth Congressional District in Central Florida

A political consultant approached Ms. Ellman about running for office

Ms. Ellman said she was initially skeptical

If Jorge Malavet makes it to Congress he wants to move past the extreme rhetoric

Rachel Porter said there has been a rise in the past decade of amateur candidates running for Congress

Zach Dembo said the overt hostility was galling and unpatriotic

Alissa Ellman was just shy of her one-year mark at the Department of Veterans Affairs when she was swept

Lauren Reinhold is running as a Democrat in Kansas’s First Congressional District

Ms. Ellman spoke at a city committee meeting in Lockport NY last May about her experience as a casualty of Mr. Trump’s government-shrinking efforts

The pandemic prompted many doctors and scientists to pursue office

Civil servants are required to be apolitical and adhere to a federal law

Megan O’Rourke is running as a Democrat in New Jersey’s Seventh Congressional District

Masuda said onetime civil servants are well positioned to provide oversight of the executive branch

Eriksen recalled telling members of Congress that people are losing programs that help them

Michael Masuda said Trump does not understand what he unleashed

Masuda is a Democratic candidate for the Republican Fifth Congressional District in California

Eriksen is running as a Democrat for a seat on the Montgomery County council