How to get a job in Trump’s Washington: Lie about elections on cable TV

If Clayton wanted the job, it seems clear that he had to demonstrate loyalty on the one issue Trump cares about most: lying about voting and elections.

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‘Imported judges’: GOP lawmakers, Musk launch racist attack on judge who blocked Trump’s voter purge scheme

Republican elected officials and the richest man in the world have embraced rank nativism in the wake of a federal district judge’s decision to block the central pillar of the Trump Administration’s scheme to prosecute the…

Scorched earth: How Trump’s gerrymanders and the Supreme Court burned redistricting to the ground

America’s system of electoral redistricting has never been perfect for ensuring that maps are drawn to benefit voters, not politicians or parties.  But over the past year, conservatives have radically transformed it into virtually unrecognizable terrain…

RNC sues Nebraska in latest bid to disenfranchise U.S. citizens living abroad

The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit seeking to block certain U.S. citizens living abroad from voting in Nebraska, expanding the GOP’s multi-state campaign against overseas voters.