Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing... Read ...

Election officials and community groups are holding education campaigns ahead of Washington D.C.’s first use of ranked choice, with many focused on older and low-propensity voters.

In 2019, while incarcerated at the Centennial Correctional Facility in Colorado and assigned to shifts in the kitchen, Nadia Reed refused to work for two days in one month. All incarcerated people in ...

After flipping the court in 2023, Wisconsin liberals now hope to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential election.

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to... Read More ...

Before Arkansas officials announced their plan to build a 3,000-bed prison in the rural northwest corner of the state, Colt Shelby hadn’t voted in at least 15 years. Shelby, who works in the oil and ...

The U.S. Postal Service began piloting a cost-cutting plan in 2023 to remove the machines that sort and postmark mail from local offices and instead consolidate mail processing in regional centers. As ...

James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett are vying for Democrats’ U.S. Senate nomination in Texas (Bob Daemmrich/Texas Tribune via AP) The 2026 midterms really are starting. Five states hold all of their ...

Jordy Diaz and many other immigrant rights advocates in Maryland were crushed last spring when the legislature, in the final hours of its 2025 session, declined to pass a landmark bill to ban local ...

This article is part of our coverage of how a pending Supreme Court case on the Voting Rights Act may affect local political power; read our earlier article on Tennessee. It was published in a ...

Editor’s note (March 3): Martin Moore narrowly prevailed in the Democratic primary for DA, and is poised to be the next prosecutor of Buncombe County. In Asheville, North Carolina, candidates for ...