Candidates bring up a criminal case that occurred on their opponent’s watch, and use it to attack them for being too lenient.

In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to ...

We’re only days removed from the political earthquake in New York City’s mayoral race, but the election calendar matches on: ...

Republicans already know their nominee for lieutenant governor: John Reid, a conservative radio show host, is the sole candidate despite a failed effort by Governor Glenn Youngkin to push him out of ...

In Oklahoma, organizers have to race against the clock to get measures on the ballot. The state has the nation’s shortest window of time for collecting the tens of thousands of signatures needed to ...

Noble Ingram is the audience engagement editor for Bolts. He focuses on facilitating conversations between readers and the newsroom and has worked for a variety of news organizations including The ...

Kentucky, Mississippi, and Virginia are selecting their state officials on Nov. 7. But hundreds of thousands of people with felony convictions are barred from voting in these states, which have some ...

The changes in SB 1 build on an earlier Colorado law, passed in 2021, which required certain counties to provide sample ballots online in non-English languages and to offer a translated ballot to ...

The office of the Chesapeake sheriff does not patrol and rarely makes arrests in the field, but it does run jails and staff courts—two critical access points for federal immigration enforcement.“We ...