As Democracy Docket’s managing editor, Zack steers our news coverage and provides editorial direction and oversight. A former national reporter at MSNBC digital and a former editorial director at the Brennan Center for Justice, he is the author of The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy.
President Donald Trump and his allies are doing everything they can — and we mean everything — to somehow get their monster voter suppression bill through Congress. And no one is covering this epic fight as closely as Democracy Docket.
The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by a chamber of Congress. The Department of Justice’s grab for state voter rolls. And a potential executive order giving President Donald Trump the power to take over elections — the Constitution be damned.
President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that his military strike against Iran may have been driven in part by claims that the country interfered in the last two U.S. presidential elections.
As MAGA Republicans ramp up their push for the SAVE America Act, the legacy media is doing its best to treat the right’s lies about the bill as serious arguments.
When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one.
Steve Bannon and Mike Johnson welcomed Trump’s comments about taking control of elections. And a new Republican anti-voting bill could disenfranchise millions.
This week, President Donald Trump and the GOP kicked their intertwined anti-voting crusades — promoting lies about the 2020 election, and restricting voting in 2026 and beyond — into high gear. And we tracked them every step of the way.
This week brought a stunning revelation about the Trump administration co-ordinating with election deniers to put voters’ personal data at risk. And Democracy Docket played a key role in pushing the story forward.
From California to Virginia, this was a good week for voting rights and fair elections. And we kept you up to date on all of it.
Our team has been digging in on what’s probably the most important ongoing voting story of 2026, which will shape the voting access landscape for the midterms: the unprecedented push by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain state voter rolls.
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