Natalie reports on threats to democracy across the nation as our news intern. She will graduate from American University in the spring of 2026 with degrees in journalism and political science. Previously, she has reported for The Buffalo News and serves as the campus life editor at American University’s student-run paper, The Eagle. She is passionate about accountability reporting.
Vice President JD Vance briefly broke with President Donald Trump when he said Republicans would accept the results of the November midterms no matter who wins, before lying about widespread election cheating. Vance told reporters after a meeting with House Republicans Wednesday that the GOP will “support the results of the midterm elections” even if […]
The Department of Justice wants to intervene in a lawsuit to force a massive voter roll purge in California. Tom Fitton, the president of the far-right legal group Judicial Watch, boasted on social media Wednesday that the DOJ seeks to “clean nearly 1 million dirty voter names from California’s voter rolls” after the department filed […]
A federal judge struck down several Arkansas laws that made it harder for people in the state to pass ballot initiatives. Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks invalidated laws that require petition signers to have photo ID, require a warning for all prospective signers on petition fraud, make petition signers read the proposed ballot […]
President Donald Trump dominated a Fox interview Monday with a lengthy monologue pushing the SAVE America Act. The anti-voting measure does not have enough votes to pass in the U.S. Senate. But that didn’t stop the president from rehashing it today when Fox and Friends host Lawrence Jones pressed Trump on the late Sen. Lindsey […]
Election monitoring is one of the latest GOP-led tactics to intimidate voters. But it’s not as new in Georgia. The far-right majority Georgia State Election Board has had its eyes on Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) since at least May when it filed a petition that sought to force Raffensperger to allow poll watchers […]
Judges issued a blow to America First Legal (AFL), the law firm co-founded by now-Trump advisor Stephen Miller, in a decision to permanently dismiss the case that claimed the way the United States Census Bureau used statistics to count people in 2020 left Florida Republicans underrepresented. The ruling marks a win for historically underrepresented voters, […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will introduce new legislation making ballot seizure before they are counted and certified by a state or county official a felony. In a July 4 recorded speech, Newsom was not shy about who the law targets. “We will not be his victims,” Newsom said. “We will be the wall he […]
A federal judge declined to pause a ruling that blocked the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order targeting mail voting. The decision means Trump’s dangerous attack on mail voting remains blocked in 23 states and the District of Columbia. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani rejected a Trump administration motion asking her […]
Montana passed a law last year that would reject mail-in ballots over minor date errors. It could disenfranchise thousands of voters in a state where 80% of people voted by mail in 2024, according to a new report.
President Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to convince the public that elections are rigged and voter fraud is rampant – both false claims – have had an impact, a new poll shows. The findings underscore the damage that Trump and his allies have done to United States democracy through their relentless campaign to falsely cast doubt […]
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