Iowa Democrats will travel to Washington, D.C., this week to pitch a streamlined caucus plan they hope will convince national party leaders that Iowa deserves another shot to be at the front of… Continue reading

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Secretary of State Shenna Bellows issued a decision Tuesday removing a conservative referendum that would ban transgender girls from female scholastic sports teams from the 2026 ballot.

Bellows, who is also a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, adopted… Continue reading

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A panel of federal judges on Tuesday rejected Alabama’s effort to use a new voting map for the November midterm elections, saying that the districts discriminated against Black people and could not be used so shortly… Continue reading

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It’s never been easy to cast an absentee ballot from inside a military submarine. But now that the Trump administration has eliminated a crucial mechanism to return absentee ballots, overseas voting requires even more of a… Continue reading

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As she did to get on the ballot, Nebraska Democratic Party-backed U.S. Senate candidate Cindy Burbank might have to sue the state to get off it. 

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers confirmed to the Examiner late last… Continue reading

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A couple who spend winters in Arizona and the rest of the year in South Dakota said they were given a federal-only… Continue reading

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The first person Ruth Fortune approached Thursday evening on the playground said she was an unaffiliated voter. The second was a registered Democrat but not in the 1st Congressional District. The third was also a Democrat but… Continue reading

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Democrats on Thursday appeared poised to finally have the support they needed to pass a resolution calling for the end of the war in Iran. When Republican leaders realized that defections from their members, plus a… Continue reading

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Two men sat in a white pickup truck outside a ballot drop box in Mesa, Arizona. Dressed… Continue reading

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As I mentioned last month, the sprawling… Continue reading

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The nationwide redistricting battle that erupted last year has evolved into a forever war.

Politicians, no longer content to leave elections to chance, are working with increased precision to choose… Continue reading

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Live free or die, but would it kill you to wear a tie? 

That was the essence of Ben Weir’s plea ahead of the biennial Libertarian National Convention in Grand Rapids, Mich.

In a May 15… Continue reading

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Democrats are poised to finish several seats behind Republicans in 2026 in the nationwide race to redraw maps for the U.S. House. They can catch up in 2028, but only if they overcome a series of redistricting hurdles… Continue reading

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Go ahead, if you’d like, and dismiss those concerns as just so much overwrought hand-wringing, or the mindless anti-Trump blathering of your friendly political columnist. A new survey of legal experts — including federal… Continue reading

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S.C. Senate Republicans acknowledged their proposal to redraw the state’s seven congressional seats for a GOP advantage will not pass in time for the start of early voting Tuesday, creating a fog of uncertainty around the plan’s… Continue reading

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The Justice Department has moved on two fronts to chip away at some of the last traces of its vast investigation into the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, aligning itself ever more closely with President Trump’s… Continue reading

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After months of disagreement, Maryland Democrats appear to be closer than ever to eliminating the state’s lone Republican-held congressional district in time for the 2028 cycle.

Bill Ferguson, the leader of the Maryland Senate and the face of Democratic… Continue reading

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In a recent New York Times essay, Nate Cohn and Eve Washington argued that “[a] race-neutral, nonpartisan redistricting process could create just as many House districts… Continue reading

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