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Desantis’ presidential campaign announcement plagued by glitches on twitter
Florida Governor Ron Desantis formally launched his 2024 presidential campaign last week but disastrous technical difficulties from the Twitter platform...
Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment points to tumultuous 2024 election
On Saturday Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was impeached on 20 articles of wrongdoing and his fate will now be...
Arizona judge rejects Kari Lake’s final 2022 election lawsuit
In a ruling Monday May 22nd an Arizona judge rejected the final lawsuit brought forth by Republican Kari Lake, affirming...
Trump or Desantis? Neither, Say Ukrainian-American Voters Angry at War Stance
Ukrainian-Americans, traditionally a Republican-leaning group, could have a significant impact on the 2024 general election according to lawmakers, strategists, and...
He voted in Florida for the first time in 2020. Then came
John Boyd Rivers, a mason who once laid the bricks of the very courthouse in which he now stood trial,...
Voter ID bill facing Republican infighting advances out of committee
A bill regarding voting identification requirements approved by Nebraska voters and introduced by Sen. Julie Slama, was advanced from the...
AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters
Tech-inclined political scientists and computer engineers have long warned that artificial intelligence could pose a major threat to our electoral...
Feinstein Returns to Senate, Casting First Vote in Months
Senator Dianne Feinstein returned to the Senate on Wednesday May 10th, casting her first vote in three months after recovering...
Ramaswamy proposes raising voting voting age to 25, unless people serve in
Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican presidential candidate, recently advocated for raising the minimum voting age to 25 unless young Americans have...
Election officials hold art contest to celebrate voting
The Pitt County, North Carolina Board of Elections is hosting an art contest in an effort to engage children and...
W. VA. politicos keep fighting over 2020; voters, not so much
Years after the conclusion of the 2020 presidential election, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner and Attorney General Patrick...
Minnesota enacts automatic voter registration, penalties for election misinformation
Minnesota will have automatic voter registration going forward under a new bill signed by Governor Tim Walz. The Democratic Governor...
A top GOP lawyer wants to crack down on the college vote.
Cleta Mitchell, a top GOP election lawyer who worked with then-President Donald Trump to try to overturn the 2020 election,...
Michigan clerk who doubts election results faces recall
Stephanie Scott, a small town clerk accused of improperly handling voting equipment after casting doubt on President Joe Biden’s election...
North Carolina Supreme Court reverses electoral district, voter ID rulings decided last
The North Carolina Supreme Court has thrown out previous rulings that determined both redistricting maps to be excessively partisan and...
Michigan’s youth voter turnout in 2022 election was best in US, report
A new report from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University shows that...
Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems reach lawsuit settlement in high-stakes defamation case
Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems have reached a deal to resolve the $1.6 billion defamation case that the electronic...
NBC News Poll: Nearly 70% of GOP voters stand behind Trump amid
Despite his recent criminal arrest and other legal investigations into his past conduct, a new national NBC poll finds that...
Students turn out to vote in large numbers
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire students recorded the highest levels of voter turnout across the city in the recent Wisconsin Supreme...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp urges Republicans to move on from election fraud
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp recently advised Republicans to move on from the 2020 presidential election. At a private Republican National...
GOP-controlled Arizona House votes to expel Republican representative
State Representative Liz Harris was expelled from the Arizona House of Representatives for ethics violations after inviting a conspiracy theorist...
Liberals gain control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the first time
Janet Protasiewicz, a judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, has defeated conservative justice Dan Kelly in the Wisconsin Supreme...
Chicago mayoral race: Brandon Johnson wins runoff, Paul Vallas concedes
Brandon Johnson, a former public school teacher, has won Chicago’s mayoral election. Johnson defeated Paul Vallas, former Chicago Public Schools...
Swipe, like, vote: the organizers using dating apps to boost turnout
Krisiti Johnson, the national press secretary for NextGen, an organization working to increase youth voter turnout, has begun using a...
Far-right influencer convicted in 2016 voter suppression scheme
Douglass Mackey, a right-wing influencer from West Palm Beach, Florida, was convicted last week on charges that he allegedly conspired...
Voters with disabilities often overlooked in voting battles
Many voters with disabilities face barriers at the polls that politicians and the public at large rarely consider. A missing...
Youngkin changes Virginia’s voting rights restoration process
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has changed the process of how Virginians with a felony conviction can regain their voting rights....
Pennsylvania judge dismisses latest GOP mail ballot lawsuit
A Pennsylvania judge, on Thursday March 23rd, has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee that attempted to...
Ron Desantis’ donors and allies question if he’s ready for 2024
After a surge in support following the recent midterm election, Florida Governor Ron Desantis now remains significantly below Donald Trump...
Voting rights effort targets those held in jails across US
While many people serving time for felony convictions lose their right to vote, detainees awaiting trial or serving misdemeanor sentences...
Trump and GOP attempt to reverse course on mail-in voting ahead of
Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans are working to change course on mail-in voting ahead of next year’s presidential...
Ohio and Michigan are moving further apart in politics- differences in ballot
With similar demographics and past voting patterns, it appears surprising that Michigan and Ohio had such different electoral outcomes in...
Eyeing re-election, Biden breaks with progressives on some hot-button issues
President Biden has said he will sign legislation to overturn a D.C. crime law that eased mandatory sentences and penalties,...
Ex-Trump attorney admits statements about 2020 election are false and is censured
A disciplinary judge in Colorado has censured Jenna Ellis, one of Donald Trump’s top attorneys, for boosting the former president’s...
Robin Lockett and Sonja P. Brookins make Black history in Tampa city
Robin Lockett and Sonja P. Brookins have edged out several established politicians in the Tampa Bay city council election. The...
How a civil war erupted at Fox News after the 2020 election
Following the 2020 presidential election, Fox News, a network that had built record profits and ratings catering to the fans...
Thousands of pro-Trump bots attack DeSantis, Haley
An unknown source has created thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of fake, automated twitter accounts to support former president...
Lori Lightfoot becomes the first Chicago Mayor in 40 years to lose
Lori Lightfoot, Chicago’s Democratic Mayor, failed to receive enough votes in the nine-person race to move on to the April...
Marianne Williamson announces another long shot presidential bid
Marianne Williamson, a spiritual advisor and self help author, has officially launched her campaign for the 2024 presidential election. Williamson...
Young voters are poised to upend American politics
Over the next decade America’s youngest voters, Gen Z and Millenials, are scheduled to become a majority of the nation’s...
Tim Scott’s potential 2024 message tests GOP voter appetite for positivity, strategists
Tim Scott, South Carolina’s first Black senator and the first southern Black senator in over a century, is traveling to...
Texas Senate revives effort to make illegal voting a felony
Despite the lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud, the Texas Senate seems intent on raising the penalty for voting...
‘Shockingly reckless’: Fox News hosts privately shot down Trump’s ‘big lie’ over
According to a court filing in Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against the network, Fox News hosts privately shared that...
Rep. Barbara Lee joins race for California US Senate seat
United States Representative Barbara Lee officially launched her campaign for the California Senate seat held by retiring Senator Dianne Feinstein....
This Virginia congressional election could make history
Democratic candidate Jennifer McClellan will face Republican Leon Benjamin on Tuesday February 21st in a special election for Virginia’s 4th...
Texas taxpayers face a $100 million bill to update voting machines with
Texas state lawmakers passed a broad and controversial new election law in 2021 that mandates the purchase of voting technology...
Oklahoma considers separating state and federal elections if voting rights acts pass
A combination of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement and Freedom to Vote Acts was passed in the House...
Nikki Haley announces presidential campaign, challenging Trump
Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor, has announced her candidacy for President. With her announcement...
The Shocking Decline of Senate Ticket-Splitting
Over the past two decades, “ticket-splitting” in Senate elections, where voters cast separate votes for candidates of different political parties,...
Democrats vote to change order of 2024 presidential primary
The Democratic Party approved the reordering of its 2024 presidential primary, changing the location of its first primary election from...
Gen Z’s political power: new data gives insight into America’s youngest voters
Gen Z voters turned out at historic rates in the recent midterm election. In fact, Gen Z and millennial voters...
Local election officials in Florida call for scrapping new ID rules for
Florida County election supervisors are imploring the state to toss out new vote-by-mail restrictions set to go into effect next...
Trump says he’s ‘more angry’ and ‘more committed’ to White House bid
Former President Donald Trump claimed he is “more committed” than ever to winning the White House, as he resumed his...
Democrat Adam Schiff announces bid for Feinstein’s US Senate seat in California
Representative Adam Schiff announced Thursday that he will be running for Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat in what is bound to...
GOP action on mail ballot timeline angers military families
Ohio’s recently passed election law notably shortens the window for mailed ballots to be received, despite no evidence that the...
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia to seek reelection
United States Senator and 2016 Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Kaine said recently that he will seek reelection in 2024. Given...
Democrat Ruben Gallego Challenges Newly Independent Kyrsten Sinema for Arizona Senate
Arizona Democratic Representative Ruben Gallego announced he will seek the nomination for the Senate this Monday, attempting to defeat incumbent...
New Hampshire Democrats to Biden: Changing primary calendar will ‘wreak havoc’ on
New Hampshire Democrats are pushing President Biden not to change the party’s primary calendar, claiming proposed changes will “wreak havoc”...
Concerns over Santos’ backstory were known prior to the election
Worries over Representative George Santos’ backstory spread over the summer and into the fall campaign season, issues regarding the recently...
‘The most important election nobody’s heard of’
Control over the Wisconsin Supreme Court is on the ballot in 2023 with major state and federal implications. At present,...
DeWine Oks photo ID requirement, other election restrictions
Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed a package of election law changes Friday including the state’s first photo identification requirement...
Oregon had the nation’s highest turnout rate in the November 2022 election
For the first time in the state’s history, Oregon achieved the highest rate of voter turnout in the nation for...
A voter fraud movement is growing in Louisiana. Election officials say it’s
A rising number of Republicans in Louisiana have spent months claiming that the state’s elections are hindered by widespread fraud....
Dark-money political nonprofits were big spenders in Colorado’s 2022 election
In an effort to influence Colorado’s voters in the recent midterm election, over 42 million dollars came from political nonprofits...
Ginni Thomas Says She Regrets Post-Election Texts to Meadows
Virginia Thomas says she regrets texting the then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows following the 2020 Presidential Election. The...
2024 Contest Comes Into View With Hurdles for Both Parties
Republicans and Democrats are both entering 2023 with many questions and concerns about the candidates and policies they want to...
RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says her support is ‘pretty solid’ as she
Republican National Committee Chairman Ronna McDaniel is facing significant backlash from Republican leaders regarding her effort to secure another two-year...
Biden’s Bullish 2024 Talk Does Little to Tamp Down Chatter
Following a strong Democratic showing in the 2022 midterm elections President Biden said his, “intention is to run again.” In...
Americans are sick of lawmakers bickering. They don’t have much hope that
Recent polling shows that three quarters of American citizens want members of Congress to compromise with the other political party,...
Texas Republicans propose a Florida-style election police force as it tees up
Texas Republicans began laying the groundwork for a number of state level voting changes, including an election police force like...
Young, Scrappy and Hungry: Gen Z in the Midterm Elections
Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a 25-year-old activist and Democrat, recently became the newly elected representative for Florida’s 10th Congressional District defeating...
Sinema leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema has decided to leave the Democratic Party and register as an independent. In an interview with...
Georgia runoff: Democratic U.S. Senator Warnock beats Trump-backed rival
Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock won re-election in a tight Georgia runoff on Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger and former football star...
Early voting for Georgia Senate runoff shattered records. Why?
Early voting in Georgia’s Senate runoff between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker broke daily voting records three times...
What to know about Moore v. Harper, the high-stakes election case before
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Moore v. Harper this Wednesday December 7th, a case that...
New state voter fraud units finding few cases from midterms
A number of state-level law enforcement units were created after the 2020 presidential election to oversee voter fraud, but more...
How independent voters saved Democrats
Independent voters were a major source of support for Democrats in the midterm elections. In fact, the “red wave” that...
Midterms free of feared chaos as voting experts look to 2024
Before the midterm elections, experts feared the potential for chaos at the ballot box. Following the tumultuous 2020 presidential election,...
GOP’s Lackluster Fundraising Spurs Post-Election Infighting
Several Republican candidates are in a round of finger pointing after a lackluster performance in the recent midterm elections. Several...
Maricopa County election official moved to ‘undisclosed location’ for his safety following
Bill Gates, the chairman of the Maricopa County board of supervisors, has been moved to an undisclosed location due to...
How Georgia’s new voting law affects the Senate runoff
The new election law which took effect last year creates one large change in the upcoming Senate runoff election between...
Behind Michigan Democrats’ ‘once in a generation’ midterm win
Michigan Democrats achieved an astonishing feat in this year’s midterm elections controlling all three branches of state government in 2023....
Democrats would have gotten crushed this election without young voters
Democrats have fared significantly better in the midterms than many pundits and analysts expected, they have held control of the...
Nevada voters back big changes to their election system
Nevada voters have approved a ballot measure by 52.8% establishing open primary elections where the top five candidates advance and...
Trump’s favorite candidates disappoint on Election Day, raising questions about his 2024
Former President Donald Trump was the clear leader of the Republican party heading into the midterm elections making many endorsements...
Kari Lake raises unfounded doubts about election results in Arizona governor race
Republican Kari Lake is behind Democrat Katie Hobbs with over half of precincts reporting. Even though things could change and...
Abortion election results: Kentucky rejects constitutional amendment on abortion
Kentucky voters have rejected a constitutional amendment that would have dictated there is no right to abortion care in the...
Over 140 threats against election workers recorded in Maricopa County
Between July 11th and August 11th of this year, the Maricopa County elections office recorded at least 140 combative and...
Biden takes aim at GOP election deniers in the final stretch of
President Biden is scheduled to make a speech in Maryland the day before the upcoming midterm elections in support of...
Carmel poll worker removed from early voting site responds to GOP interference
A poll worker in Carmel, Indiana was removed from their early voting site after accusations of illegal activity from country...
Economy Is Top Election Issue; Abortion and Crime Next
Recent polling shows the economy is considered the most essential policy issue for voters in the midterm elections. Poll results...
Bernie Sanders tours Texas hoping to amp up progressive turnout, including in
Senator Bernie Sanders toured Central and South Texas this weekend in an effort to engage progressive voters as early voting...
Black Church Tradition Survives Georgia’s Voting Challenges
Leaders of black churches across Georgia rallied on Sunday, continuing the longstanding tradition called “souls to the polls”, that encourages...
Clarence Thomas Freezes Order for Lindsay Graham to Testify Before Georgia Grand
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas temporarily paused a lower court order requiring Senator Lindsay Graham to testify in front of...
Arizona Officials ‘Deeply Concerned’ by Armed ‘Vigilantes’ at Ballot Drop Box
Election officials in Arizona were gravely concerned after two individuals considered to be ‘vigilantes’ were seen dressed in tactical gear...
Early Voters in Georgia Face Obstacles Under State’s New Election Law
An increasing number of early voters in the Georgia midterm election have faced challenges during the early voting period due...
GOP Goes to Court Again Over Pennsylvania Mail Ballots 
Over the fall semester, students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have led the Husker Vote Coalition, a nonpartisan effort that...
Thousands Sign Petition Asking Temple to Cancel Classes on Election Day
Over the fall semester, students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have led the Husker Vote Coalition, a nonpartisan effort that...
Husker Vote Coalition Gets Students Engaged in Democracy 
Over the fall semester, students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have led the Husker Vote Coalition, a nonpartisan effort that...
Judge: Trump Knew Vote Fraud Claims in Legal Docs Were False
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that former President Donald Trump signed legal documents challenging the results of the 2020 election...