A redistricting expert answers questions from Bolts readers about the effort to redraw Texas’ congressional map, and its ...

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Over the past year, Seattle has begun barring some residents from entering certain neighborhoods of their city. A new ...

Voters will decide on a ballot initiative that would set the stage to let everyone vote by mail without an excuse—an option that could expand access for voters with disabilities.

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Ask a redistricting expert about new GOP efforts to redraw Texas' maps, and the potential impact on Congress and communities of color.

On the first of this month, Wyoming residents began facing some of the nation’s harshest rules when registering to vote, and ...

The Democratic Party in Chesapeake, Virginia’s second-largest city, has embraced and endorsed the local sheriff who ...

For more than 25 years, Mike Rose felt alone. After his son Jeremy was arrested at age 17 in 1994, sentenced to life in prison, Mike and his wife had no community with which to share the pain of ...

This article is produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Mother Jones. For the first time since the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020, voters in Minneapolis and ...