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After trailing by more than 10,000 votes on election night, Democratic North Carolina State Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs pulled off an...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Hours before the results started coming in on November 5, when Democrats were still full of hope, the exit polls...
North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) speaks alongside Republican Party Chair Jason Simmons Gary D. Robertson/AP On Tuesday,...
Voters line up to enter their polling place at the Cincinnati Observatory on Election Day. Carolyn Kaster/AP Ohio voters defeated a major ballot...
The Georgia State Election Board meets at the Capitol in Atlanta on July 9, 2024. Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP A state judge on...
People line up to vote in the Atlanta suburb of Tucker, Ga., on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, the first day of early in-person voting in Georgia. Jeff...
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney looks through paperwork, Aug. 14, 2023, in Atlanta. (Brynn Anderson, AP) A Georgia judge ruled...
Governor Walz speaks to a crowd in the city of Reno Nevada, during a Harris Walz campaign rally, October 8, 2024. (Hale Irwin/ SIPA USA) At a pair...
Former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp after speaking at a temporary relief shelter as he visits areas impacted by...
A voter enters Tuscaloosa County Ward 5, Montgomery Fire Department, to vote during a primary election, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Northport, Ala. (AP...
Georgia's State Election Board members discuss proposals for election rule changes at the state capitol, Sept. 20, 2024, in Atlanta. (Mike Stewart/AP)...
Former president Donald Trump campaigns in Greenwood, Neb., in 2022. (Kenneth Ferriera/Lincoln Journal Star via AP) The Trump campaign’s...
An attendee holds a sign that says "This Meeting is Illegal" during a hastily planned Georgia State Election Board meeting at the Capitol in Atlanta...
An election worker examines a ballot during vote counting in the 2020 election at State Farm Arena, in Atlanta. Brynn Anderson/AP Former...
Residents in Anchorage, Alaska wait to vote. Mark Thiessen/AP This article was originally published by News21 , a Carnegie-Knight and Walter...
Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Aug. 3, 2024. (John Bazemore/AP) On August 3, Donald Trump held a...
Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signs the "Democracy for the People Act" on May 5, 2023, in St. Paul, Minn. Steve Karnowski/AP. Kamala...
Mother Jones illustration; Washington Bureau/Getty; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash; National Archives “Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any...
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty President Joe Biden called for a series of major reforms to the Supreme Court on Monday that would counteract the...
Kyle Mazza/AP Joe Biden continues to insist he’s continuing with his presidential campaign, but the list of Democrats pleading with him to drop...
Members of voting rights groups hold signs calling for protection of voting rights at a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Dec. 7, 2023. (Rogelio V....
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., holds a news conference with Donald Trump on April 12, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Wilfredo...
Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of a South Carolina...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court allowed a lower court decision requiring a second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana to move...
Elie Wiesel once warned of the “perils of indifference.” Reflecting on the horrors of the 20th century, he recognized that indifference can be...
Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Ari Berman Mr. Berman is the national voting rights correspondent at Mother Jones and the author of...
Donald Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin Alex Brandon/AP Two big pieces of news emerged from the world of Wisconsin politics...
Voters line at a polling station at noon in Moscow. AP Vladimir Putin’s fifth term as Russian president is guaranteed. Opposition leaders have been...
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers raises a bill which re-defines the state's legislative maps after signing it at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison,...
People gather during a get out the vote rally Nov. 27, 2022, in Atlanta, during early voting for the Senate runoff election. Ben Gray/AP A federal...
A yard sign urges Kansas voters to protect abortion access in the November elections. John Hanna/AP In August 2022, Kansans decisively voted to...
Mother Jones; Carolyn Kaster/AP; Unsplash On November 20, a three-judge panel on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that private plaintiffs could...