Over the past year, Seattle has begun barring some residents from entering certain neighborhoods of their city. A new ...

Ask a redistricting expert about new GOP efforts to redraw Texas' maps, and the potential impact on Congress and communities of color.

The Democratic Party in Chesapeake, Virginia’s second-largest city, has embraced and endorsed the local sheriff who ...

Wyoming residents began facing some of the nation’s harshest rules when registering to vote, and additional barriers may still be coming. Wyoming became the... Read More ...

Chicago’s public defenders are among the best-resourced in Illinois, but even there, massive case loads have attorneys and ...

The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated ...

Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, plus new ICE partnerships with local police and sheriffs.

As always, this guide is not an exhaustive list of all elections in May, but just our selection of the races to monitor. Voters are also deciding city councilors and county commissioners all around ...

In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to discrimination laws, and a funding crunch depleting their work.

Volunteers with the League of Women Voters of Florida are often seen at farmers markets, book clubs, parades, and other gathering places, collecting petitions and raising awareness on new campaigns.