Yunior is a breaking news reporter from Brooklyn, New York. He earned his master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where he specialized in local news and data reporting. He is passionate about civic education and engagement.
The 2026 midterms did more than hand Democrats sweeping gains across Congress and state governments. Voters nationwide also removed from power — and denied promotions to — some of the country’s most prolific architects and defenders of voting restrictions.
The Trump administration voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against California, abandoning its effort to force election officials to set aside thousands of mail ballots cast by voters it suspected of being noncitizens.
Democrat Scott Colom, who holds a razor-thin lead in Mississippi’s still-undecided U.S. Senate race, called for sweeping reforms to expand voting access and curb partisan gerrymandering in an interview with Democracy Docket.
A federal judge barred the Trump administration from pressuring Washington election officials to set aside ballots cast by voters the Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused of being noncitizens, delivering another blow to the administration’s efforts to intervene in the 2026 midterms.
Harmeet Dhillon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump who led the administration to an uninterrupted string of courtroom defeats in its crusade for states’ unredacted voter rolls, has resigned as head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division.
Before Tuesday, President Donald Trump and the GOP were warning frantically that the presence on Alaska’s ballot of a U.S. Senate candidate with a similar name to that of the GOP incumbent would confuse voters. Trump’s Department of Justice filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent certification over the issue.
California voters rejected Proposition 39 Tuesday, defeating a sweeping Republican-backed constitutional amendment that would have imposed strict new identification requirements on both in-person and mail voting. The measure failed 58.6% to 41.6%, preserving California’s existing system for verifying voters and preventing what voting rights groups warned could have kept eligible voters from having their ballots […]
After months of the Trump administration’s escalating threats against election officials, attempts to interfere with voting and hints about sending law enforcement to polling places, Election Day unfolded largely as elections normally do.
Widespread voting machine failures in New York’s Westchester County are spurring nonsensical claims from prominent right-wing figures that Democrats are somehow scheming to steal the contest — by suppressing votes in a Democratic stronghold.
It isn’t hard to predict: By the time polls close Tuesday, President Donald Trump and his allies will have spread a slew of false and dangerous election conspiracy theories online.
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