As is usually the case in the months leading up to presidential primaries, national focus has centered around polling in early primary states to determine which candidates are soaring and which are tanking. Crowdpac took a poll of a different sort - one that measures which states are doling out the most campaign money to the 2016 hopefuls. Here’s what we found:

Last week, the Senate passed the controversial cybersecurity bill known as CISA with a vote of 74-21, with the remaining 5 taking a neutral stance.

The bill, if passed, will allow and encourage companies to share user and customer information with the government in an attempt to combat cybercrime. Opponents of the bill view it as an enormous loophole giving the government another opportunity to spy on the public while doing relatively little to thwart actual cybersecurity threats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONqcBKhikfk

The right to keep and bear arms may be the single most controversial and most contentious right listed in our Bill of Rights.

Much of the root of that contention is in understanding what the founders and framers actually meant.

What is the Second Amendment really about?

This is a Reality Check you won’t get anywhere else.

So many questions over the Second Amendment: is the amendment outdated?

On Twitter, I was asked the following question recently:

"I'd like to vote in the Texas primaries for Democrats at the national level - Will I be able to vote for a preferred state senate candidate in the GOP ?"

This is an excellent question, the short answer to which is no. Let me explain.

Texas has an open partisan primary system. This means that voters do not have to declare party affiliation (or lack thereof) when they register to vote. The state does not keep records of who is a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, independent, etc.