Ahead of November’s midterm election, anti-voter majorities on county boards of elections across North Carolina have targeted student voters by proposing plans to remove or exclude on-campus early voting locations. If approved, these plans will make voting harder not only for students, but for hundreds of faculty, staff, and community members who work on or […]

New Hampshire towns are now equipped with absentee ballots for the Sept. 8 primary, Secretary of State Dave Scanlan announced Monday.  But requesting those ballots could require some extra steps this year under new laws tightening proof of identity requirements.  To obtain a ballot this election cycle, absentee voters must either go to their town […]

I've spent the last several weeks doing something I don't enjoy: reading through comment threads, forwarded emails, and private messages where members of this party have torn into one another.

Almost 1 in 5 Rhode Islanders is Latino now, roughly 220,000 people by the Census Bureau’s most recent count, up from 12.4% of the state in 2010. Central Falls is 69% Latino, and about 7 in 10 people who live there speak a language other than English at home. Pawtucket is roughly a quarter Latino. […]

Since 1994, the Alaska Republican Party has sent absentee ballot applications to registered voters across the state, urging voters to cast their ballot by mail.  The party continued the process this year, despite denunciations of mail-in voting by President Donald Trump, who has called voting by mail “cheating.” In a mailer sent to some voters […]

If you've felt overwhelmed lately, you're not alone. The headlines move fast, the stakes feel high, and it's easy to feel like none of it is in your hands. Here's the truth: some of it isn’t. But most of it is — and that's where Montana Democrats are putting our energy this week.