• 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.

  • Elections • Executive Power

    Trump-Musk Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote

    Greg Palast

    gregpalast.com

    President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give Elon Musk access to the voter files of every state.

  • Elections • Technology

    Crypto super PACs pump cash into Florida as GOP faces risk of thinning House majority

    MacKenzie Sigalos

    CNBC

    Fresh off its victories in the 2024 election cycle, the crypto industry is going big in Florida.

  • 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.

  • Democracy • Digital Rights • Elections • Global • Legal

    Shattered by a perfect storm: How Trump’s cuts are crippling journalism beyond the United States

    Gretel Kahn, Marina Adami, Eduardo Suárez

    Reuters Institute

    Before Trump’s inauguration, the US government supported independent journalism in more than 30 countries. Most of this funding was channelled through USAID. According to a USAID factsheet recently mentioned by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and now taken offline, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists and assisted 707 outlets.

  • Democratic Party • Elections

    How to End the Smash-and-Grab

    The Center for Ballot Freedom

    The Ticket

    Without a healthy party system, you’re basically left with either violence or autocracy as the way disagreements get resolved.

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Europe • Global

    Russian Interference: Coming Soon to an Election Near You

    Oana Popescu-Zamfir

    carnegieendowment

    Russia pursues a systematic strategy of undermining elections and influencing public opinion in the West. EU and NATO countries must recognize that Moscow often acts through agents within their own borders, and build resilience to such interference.

  • Analysis • Democracy • Digital Rights • Elections • Legal

    The MAGA Assault on the Media Is Picking Up Steam

    CHRIS LEHMANN

    The Nation

    Trump’s courts-based intimidation campaign against the press descends from handiwork of one of his most prominent Silicon Valley backers, venture capitalist and neo-reactionary ghoul Peter Thiel.

  • Analysis • Democracy • Digital Rights • Elections • Legal

    Capitulation is Contagious

    Adrienne LaFrance

    The Atlantic

    The brave few who stood up to the magnates of the Gilded Age came to mind this month, when Ann Telnaes, a Washington Post cartoonist, resigned over the paper’s refusal to publish a cartoon in which she skewered today’s titans of industry—­Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Post, among them.

  • Analysis • Democracy • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Elections • Technology

    Liberals Are Left Out in the Cold as Social Media Veers Right

    Sheera Frenkel

    New York Times

    Hundreds of thousands of posts lauding Mr. Trump’s victory filled Truth Social, the social platform that the president-elect owns. Speculation about what the new administration would accomplish ran rampant on X, which is owned by Elon Musk. Gab, Parler and other right-wing social media sites were flooded with thousands of memes glorifying Mr. Trump.

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