State, federal midterm campaigns upstaged by local races in Arkansas

By: Andrew DeMillo

Outlets: Arkansas Advocate

Published: March 1, 2026

Words: 621

Last Updated: 1 week, 3 days ago

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All politics is local, as the old saying goes. In Arkansas, all the really interesting politics right now is local.

Tuesday’s primary and nonpartisan judicial elections aren’t lacking in interesting matchups at the state and federal levels.

But several local races around the state are threatening to upstage those primaries with the type of spending, vitriol and scandal you’d normally expect to see in a statewide or congressional campaign.

Nowhere is that more apparent …

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