Democracy • Legal
Dems to Fight Texas’ ‘Illegal, Unconstitutional and Egregious Effort to Rig the Elections’
Jen Rice
Democracy Docket
Republicans already hold 25 out of Texas’ 38 congressional seats – a much higher share of seats than their vote-share in the state should net.
Published On: 07/15/2025
Democracy • Legal
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.
Published On: 07/14/2025
Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom
LA Journalists Reflect on Protest Attacks
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, shot with crowd-control munitions, and had their equipment searched — simply for doing their jobs.
Published On: 07/11/2025
Democracy • Legal
How Michigan Is Organizing for Ranked Choice Voting
Mark Bauer
Rank The Vote
Getting RCV on the ballot isn’t easy. It’s a complex, legally binding process. The campaign must collect hundreds of thousands of valid signatures in a tight window of time. Every volunteer counts.
Published On: 07/08/2025
Democracy • Featured • Human Rights • Legal
“Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation”
Democracy Now
Democracy Now
You will see ICE now being the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation, potentially with enough funding to hire more law enforcement agents than the FBI and more detention potentially than the entire Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Published On: 07/02/2025
Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety
CPJ outraged at ICE refusal of judge’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Spanish-language reporter is currently the only journalist in custody in the U.S. whose arrest was in relation to their work.
Published On: 07/02/2025
Democracy • Featured • Legal
Taking Away Your Citizenship
Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
We’ve moved onto the next phase of the plan, where the Civil Rights Division, the once proud crown jewel of the Justice Department, will participate in stripping naturalized American citizens of their citizenship.
Published On: 07/01/2025
Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom
Prosecution Against Journalist Endangers Right To Gather News
Kevin Gosztola
The Dissenter
The “government’s interpretation of the Wiretap Act would unleash frivolous litigation and make the Act a magnet for arbitrary and harassing enforcement actions in the future.”
Published On: 06/30/2025
Legal • Safety
Trump attacks on NRC independence pose health, safety risks
Edwin Lyman
Utility Dive
The exodus of key personnel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will jeopardize its ability to oversee the nuclear power fleet and slow the licensing of new facilities to a crawl.
Published On: 06/30/2025
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Gavin Newsom on Why He’ll Keep Trolling Trump
"It’s humiliating, it’s embarrassing. So this is a mirror, and it’s a mirror not just to Trump himself, but to these networks. These are the chatbots for the administration. And it’s not just Fox, it’s One America News, it’s Newsmax, and it’s all the folks in the right-wing media."