Texas Senate race: Paxton’s lawsuit challenging 2020 could have led to ‘the end of democracy’
Ken Paxton played a leading role in an outrageous legal effort on behalf of President Donald Trump to undo the results of the 2020 presidential contest.
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Texas runoff: SAVE Act author Chip Roy loses AG primary to election denier Mayes Middleton
Rep. Chip Roy’s loss emphasizes Trump’s continued sway over the GOP and his willingness to exact revenge against Republicans who defy him.
Texas runoff: Election denier Ken Paxton wins GOP nod for U.S. Senate
Texas AG Ken Paxton has been a vocal and early supporter of a plan to sideline the filibuster to allow the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act.
Texas primary: Election deniers favored in GOP’s Senate, AG races
Texans are returning to the polls Tuesday to vote in several key statewide and congressional primary runoffs that will have major implications for voting rights and elections both in the state and nationally.
CBC blocks SCORE Act vote on college athlete pay in response to GOP’s southern redistricting wave
The CBC’s Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.) has pulled support of the SCORE Act, which he helped draft, due to the GOP’s redistricting war impacts on his state.
Trump endorses Texas AG Ken Paxton for Senate, citing support for SAVE Act
When President Donald Trump announced he was endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in Texas’ U.S. Senate primary, he appeared to have one thing at the front of his mind: the SAVE America Act.
Texas Supreme Court rejects attempt to expel Democrats for blocking gerrymander, in blow to Abbott
The Texas Supreme Court has rejected an effort by GOP officials to expel Democratic lawmakers who briefly fled the state last summer in an attempt to prevent Republicans from passing a partisan gerrymander.
Supreme Court ruling derails 28 lawsuits defending minority voting rights, Democracy Docket research finds
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
As expected, Supreme Court officially greenlights Texas’ gerrymandered congressional map for midterms
The U.S. Supreme Court sewed up the loose ends of its earlier 6-3 decision to allow Texas’s mid-decade congressional redistricting Monday, issuing a summary reversal of a trial court’s ruling blocking the map.
How Democrats fought off Trump’s redistricting scheme
If Democrats’ remarkable victory in the Virginia referendum election tells us anything, it’s this: President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to use mid-decade redistricting to maintain control of Congress in the 2026 midterms has not gone according to plan.