With the mid-term elections approaching, questions have arisen over whether the Trump administration might attempt to station ...

From unprecedented spending to public outrage over corruption, here’s how big money is shaping the 2026 election.

From declaring a national emergency to invoking the Insurrection Act, the president has no legal authority to seize voting machines or send troops to the polls — and he doesn’t have any power to ...

Let’s not overthink it. The grubby reality is he’s a big federal contractor. According to The Washington Post, “Over the ...

Midterm elections often are waged as a rebuke to the party in control of the White House. Political scientists call this a thermostatic election. Voters adjust the temperature by turning the dial away ...

A majority of voters in the Deep South disagree with their states’ extreme restrictions, highlighting the disconnect between the public and the legislators who represent them.

Interactive data visualizations analyzing changes in Supreme Court tenure, unequal numbers of presidential appointments, and ...

Thanks to Citizens United and other court decisions, states and localities cannot limit how much billionaires and wealthy ...

The results of gubernatorial races in dozens of states could lead to benefits for incarcerated people and the broader public.

A presidential order has activated the post-9/11 machinery of federal-state-local law enforcement cooperation to target the administration’s political opponents.

UPDATE: In March 2026, President Trump issued a second executive order purporting to change election rules. Among other things, it attempts to require the U.S. Postal Service to decide who is allowed ...

Nearly all election jurisdictions across the country use voting machines to count ballots because they are more accurate, faster, and cheaper than counting all ballots by hand. Hand counts fail when ...