Texas Targets Latino Officials in Voting Crackdown, Setting up a Climate of Intimidation
Voting rights advocates say Attorney General Ken Paxton’s latest crusade isn’t about curbing fraud. It’s about creating fear.

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Voting rights advocates say Attorney General Ken Paxton’s latest crusade isn’t about curbing fraud. It’s about creating fear.
The North Carolina appeals court’s decision in Republican challenges against incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory in the state’s Supreme Court race last year is “like dropping a match in a really dry forest.,” she told Democracy Docket in an interview Friday.
As a GOP candidate is seeking to overturn his election loss, the future of the North Carolina Supreme Court’s composition — and free and fair elections more broadly — hangs in the balance.
A Feb. 1 election will determine who will lead the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The current chair, Jaime Harrison, decided not to run for re-election, so it’s a wide-open playing field.
While a single seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, which already has an overwhelming Republican majority, may seem insignificant, this race has the potential to set a dangerous precedent for future election challenges.
Jack Smith sought to dismiss the election subversion case against Trump, citing the DOJ’s longstanding policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.
Just days after he was declared the winner of the 2024 election, President-elect Donald Trump indicated that he may use recess appointments to fill his cabinet positions and other roles — even though his party will control the Senate.
President Joe Biden has two months until he leaves office and President-elect Donald Trump, a known threat to democracy, takes over. During the lame duck period, Biden and Senate Democrats are able to take action to protect voting rights — by filling judicial vacancies.
What was once seen as nothing more than a procedural part of the elections process has, in the past two election cycles, evolved into something of a battlefield in the election denial movement.
We explain Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation’s plan for how Trump, should he win the November election, can vastly remake the federal government most effectively to carry out an extremist far-right agenda.
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