JD Vance’s prosecutorial state
JD Vance is a Yale-trained lawyer who understands that police power can only take an authoritarian so far. A true strongman must control the prosecutorial state.
Opinion
Read in-depth op-eds on voting rights and democracy from our contributors, guest authors and Democracy Docket's founder, Marc Elias. Use the drop-down menu to organize by topic.
Trump wishes he seized ballots in 2020. What does that mean for 2026?
The 2026 midterms will be easier for Trump to steal than the 2020 election.
New Republican election officials make voting harder in North Carolina
In North Carolina, GOP-led election boards have shut down early voting sites across the state and sent personal voter data to the Trump administration.
How new USPS rules put the right to vote at risk
While the Trump era has been marked by chaos, mail-in voting has consistently remained the most contentious election-related issue.
Trump’s secret war against vital nonprofits
Often, nonprofits represent the voice of the people. That is exactly why the attacks are coming fast and furious, and why we must stand firmly to defend these organizations.
Trump, Venezuela, and the threat to the 2026 elections
Donald Trump has no settled view of foreign policy or the use of military force. His decision over the weekend to attack Venezuela and seize its president, Nicolás Maduro, cannot be explained by any coherent worldview.
Ohio Republicans are defying voters to pursue a backdoor abortion ban
Ohio is yet another example of the limits of direct democracy alone: While people can vote to uphold rights they care about, lawmakers who oppose those rights can still work to chip away at them.
Big Law walks away from democracy
In the past, voter suppression and election subversion efforts would have been met with a flurry of legal actions by the nation’s largest law firms. This time, there has been complete silence.
For Trump, the Epstein Cover-Up Beats the Truth
As one of her first acts as Attorney General, Pam Bondi wrote a letter to the new head of the FBI, Kash Patel, demanding that the “full and complete Epstein files” be delivered to her office by the next day — Feb. 28.
Trump’s DOJ Wants Your Data
Donald Trump and the Republican Party know that they are likely to be voted out of power in November 2026. The tools they are counting on to prevent this are the same ones being deployed by the largest technology companies: big data sets and vast computing power.
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