Elections • Executive Power • Regulations
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Democracy Docket
Democracy Docket
Today, rather than standing up for voting access, Trump's DOJ is supporting and defending voter suppression laws and bringing new lawsuits to impose stricter voting rules.
Democratic Party • Elections • Recommended
Why Elon Musk’s Third Party Won’t Get Off the Launchpad
Center for Ballot Freedom
The Ticket
“As long as we have our current system of single-winner plurality elections, third parties have no meaningful chance to do anything more than show up as occasional spoilers.”
Elections • Executive Power
Trump’s New Executive Order Is an “Astonishing and Unprecedented Voter Suppression” Effort
Ari Berman
Mother Jones
On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed a far-reaching executive order that Eliza Sweren-Becker, senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice’s voting rights and elections program, described as “an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression” effort. It would upend how Americans register to vote, how they cast their ballots, and how their votes are counted.
Democratic Party • Elections • Social Justice and Equity
Why We Need a Progressive Shadow Cabinet to Counter Trump
Sarah van Gelder
How We Rise, with Sarah
A shadow cabinet appointed by “we the people” would show us what it would mean to have a government who put American families ahead of the enrichment of billionaires.