#1 is the best, #50 is the worst
A final HUD rule published November 12 ends rent help for any family with one ineligible member once a grace period runs out. About 80,000 people live in those families — roughly 37,000 of them children. HUD's own analysis says the change will cost taxpayers about $300 million more to serve the same number of families.
On November 11, the House voted 245-175 to force a standalone vote on the Major Richard Star Act, which would stop cutting the retirement pay of about 58,000 combat-wounded veterans. Every no vote came from a Republican. Here are the 153 on this site, and the 85 of them whose names are on the bill.
After the midterms, Rep. Rich McCormick told donors his 'Communist Control Act of 2026' would remove Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar and AOC from office and permanently bar Democratic Socialists from running. Clay Fuller, Diana Harshbarger and Keith Self cosponsored it.
Trump won Tennessee with 64.2% of the vote to 34.5%, a margin of 29.7 points, with 57.9% of eligible voters turning out. (Full 2024 presidential results, state by state.)
10 of 11 — 91%. In the U.S. House, Tennessee has 8 Republicans and 1 Democrat; in the Senate, 2 Republicans and 0 Democrats. (Source: Current members of Congress from Tennessee, on Wikipedia.)
Tennessee ranks #45 of 50. That is the average of its rank on the 17 measures in the report card above — violent crime, gun deaths, life expectancy, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality, household income, public education, voter turnout and more. #1 is the best state to live in, #50 the worst.
You can compare Tennessee directly to other states on our Compare States page.
We grade Republican incumbents running in 2026 — U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and governors — on their record: how they voted, who funds them, and what it has cost Tennessee. Democrats and independents do not get report cards.