Republicans

The budget proposed by House Republicans that passed on a mostly party line vote includes $600 million in 30-year state-backed bonds for a domed stadium project for the Browns in a suburb of Cleveland.

Supporters of Ohio’s libraries have been lobbying hard for changes to the House budget.

There’s no change in the Republican House budget, as Ohio food banks are wrestling with cuts at the federal level too.

Fresh off a pair of difficult losses last year — the bitter defeat of three-term U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown to Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno, and the rejection by voters of the anti-gerrymandering amendment known as Issue 1 — the party's efforts at building anything close to a winning 2026 ticket have so far been muted, and for some, moving too slowly.

Local school board races and the State Board of Education are nonpartisan in Ohio, and party affiliations are not listed alongside the names of candidates.

Gov. Mike DeWine will appoint a successor to Vice President-elect JD Vance when he resigns from the Senate.

Ohio's two Black Republican state lawmakers have diverged from their Black Democratic colleagues on Issue 1.

Brown, who has held his Senate seat since 2007 and broadly supported LGBTQ+ rights throughout his career, is running against Republican businessman Bernie Moreno in a hotly contested swing state contest.

Ohio Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno recently made controversial comments to his supporters about abortion.

Lawmakers say this legislation is needed because the Ohio Ballot Board has become too partisan.