Jedidiah Duggar

Last year, Jedidiah Duggar announced that he would be running for a seat in the Arkansas State House of Representatives.

In some ways, the news was not surprising.

If you're a longtime Duggar fan, we probably don't need to tell you about the family's complex past with Laura DeMasie.

But if you're unfamiliar with Jana Duggar's rumored girlfriend, suffice it to say this is the quintessential love/hate relationship.

Before they were a reality TV family, the Duggars were a political family.

Jim Bob Duggar held a seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002, and he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for a seat in the United States Senate.

The Duggars are a polarizing family.

This may be the most understated sentence ever written on this celebrity gossip website.

For most Americans, 21 is a milestone birthday.

But for Jeremiah and Jedidiah Duggar -- both of whom reached legal drinking age this week -- very little will change in their rigidly structured lives.

Back in November, reports that Josh Duggar's home had been raided by the FBI made their way across social media with alarming speed.

It was later revealed that the details of those reports were inaccurate, but there was truth to the claims that the Duggars were under investigation by the federal government.

So far, the Duggar response to reports of a Homeland Security raid on their property has been to play word games and deny all knowledge.

Fans obviously have a lot fo questions, but the Duggar family is actively silencing commenters -- even fans -- who are seeking answers.

Earlier this week, Counting On fans were stunned by a report that Josh Duggar's home had been raided by the FBI.

As more information became available, we learned that the details of the initial Internet report were inaccurate.

The Duggar family apparently feels like Josh Duggar's molestation scandal has blown over, folks, because Jed Duggar is running for office.

Despite that being a deeply controversial move, his big sister Jana gave him a shout-out and a glowing endorsement.

As you're no doubt aware, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have 19 children.

Most of those 19 children live in rural Arkansas, and are limited in their dating options by their family's ultra-strict religious beliefs.

Usually, a new season of Counting On means more pregnancies, more babies, and more insanely strict rules dreamed up by Jim Bob, but enforced with such fervor that you'd think JC came down from heaven for the express purpose of forbidding front-hugs.

In other words, all the stuff that Duggar fans eat up like tater-tot casserole.

It's an exciting time for the members of Arkansas' second most-famous family.

(Sorry, but the bajillionaire Waltons are tough to beat.)