Utah GOP fumbling their pro-gerrymandering ballot measure amid fraud claims, confusion
Utah Republicans’ plan to repeal the state’s gerrymandering ban in order to grab another congressional seat isn’t going as well as they hoped.
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‘We want to take over’: All the (recent) times Trump has talked about controlling elections
Over the past month, President Trump has gone on the attack against democratic elections, again denying that he lost the 2020 presidential race and expressing his desire to seize ballots, cancel votes and strip the states of control over elections.
Leading election denier claimed DHS ‘wants to partner with us’ on voter roll checks. Now he’s a top official there
The comments raise new questions about how closely DHS worked with right-wing groups seeking to challenge state election systems, and underscore concerns about some of those same groups now having access to government databases.
Vote centers have made it easier to vote. Cleta Mitchell is coming for them
The battle over vote centers is currently playing out in Arizona, where Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) last year vetoed a GOP bill to abolish the use of them.
In battling a GOP gerrymander, Missouri voters are fighting for American democracy
President Donald Trump’s redistricting arms race is wreaking havoc across the country, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. But in Missouri, the fight has grown into something that threatens to cut democracy to the bone.
After Minneapolis, Trump ushers in death of independent federal law enforcement
Through his response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, President Trump is tearing down the longstanding firewall between the White House and Justice Department and compromising independent federal law enforcement.
Republicans are desperate to crack down on direct democracy
Across the country, a growing number of Republican-led state legislatures are moving to gut the direct democracy process — stripping voters of their power to use ballot measures to pass laws when elected officials refuse to act.
These Are The Trump Power Grabs We’re Watching in the New Year
From trying to unilaterally reinterpret the Constitution to attempting to usurp states’ authority over elections, President Trump’s relentless, extreme attacks on our democracy have generated an avalanche of legal challenges. Here are the crucial legal challenges to Trump we’re watching closely in the new year.
The Best and Worst of 2025’s Fight for Democracy
It was a tough year for democracy and voting rights, but it wasn’t all bad. The November elections offered more than just a glimmer of hope that next year’s midterms will be a major rebuke of President Donald Trump’s second term.
Holly Jolly Gerrymander: Here’s How Trump Attempted to Rig Elections in 2025
Much like replacing a smoke detector or coming down with the flu, it’s best if we only have to deal with redistricting once per decade. And yet, here we are, mid-decade, wading through nonstop redistricting news because 77 million people voted for a convicted felon who will happily demolish democracy like it’s the East Wing of the White House if it helps him hold on to power in the 2026 midterm elections.
