This escalation is unfolding just months before the national midterm elections, where turnout among key voter groups could determine control of Congress.
When federal guardrails fail or are manipulated and misused, states can provide the support and protection needed while also expanding meaningful ballot access.
President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term doing everything but his actual job to avoid a GOP loss in the midterms.
The SAVE Act would disenfranchise millions of voters by banning mail-in ballots and requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration.
The U.S. has been through this before, from the slow unraveling of the Vietnam War to the disastrous justifications that launched the Iraq War.
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Only months after taking office, President Donald Trump declared an economic emergency to implement tariffs against nearly every country.
President Donald Trump said he wasn’t concerned about rising gas prices, despite celebrating how low prices were during the State of the Union.
Cuba has spent the last 60 years exporting doctors, fixing vintage cars, and quietly surviving the longest embargo in modern history.
Shortly after the documents were released, the House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Epstein Files.
Blaming voters for ignoring a warning is easier than grappling with how American power actually operates in the world.
Kristi Noem isn't the only person who should be going down over the Department of Homeland Security's handling of Trump's deportation mandate.
You don’t have to cry for Kristi Noem; Trump immediately gave her another job doing something none of us have heard of before.