It hurts ordinary Americans in concrete ways, and the risk has never been greater given today’s unprecedented mixing of ...

The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in ...

After its successful start in 2024, a large majority of voters across parties want state leaders to keep funding New York’s ...

The so-called One Big Beautiful Act allocates more than $170 billion over four years for border and interior enforcement, ...

The judicial appointment of an outside authority to temporarily run Rikers Island offers a rare opportunity to transform one ...

MAGA Inc., the main super PAC supporting President Trump, raised $198.9 million between the election and the end of June. The ...

When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just ...

The Brennan Center and co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of civil rights and voting organizations challenging President Trump’s March 2025 executive order on elections.

It’s now clear that the Trump administration has launched a campaign to undermine American elections. An important new ...

Voters should choose their politicians, not the other way around. The Texas gerrymander and the partisan war it has triggered ...

The Voting Rights Act, a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement, turns 60 this week. It’s not in good shape.

This table was revised after publication to include a 2005 declaration of emergency related to Hurricane Katrina. The 2005 declaration was initially excluded from our list because it did not cite the ...