A judge’s attempt to resign after his election loss last year could have effectively canceled the will of voters. Critics are demanding an end to the loophole.

From the continued threats against the Voting Rights Act to new restrictions on mail ballots and voter registration, courts ...

Voters in Grants Pass, Oregon, elected a new mayor and four new city councilors with far-right politics in November. The ...

As Trump threatens Chicago, organizers are bracing for raids but also hopeful that a vast suite of local protections and community trainings can limit the scale of deportations.

Send us your questions about how prisons make incarcerated people work, from the history of the practice to the efforts to change it. As wildfires rage through Los Angeles, incarcerated firefighters ...

On July 7, 2022, days after Chad LaVia was freed from a year of incarceration at the jail in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the county sent him a bill for $14,320 in “room and board” fees—$40 for each ...

There are more than 150 elections for prosecutor and sheriff scheduled in 2025. Below is our Bolts database of those local elections. States that are not listed on this page have no ...

There are nearly 500 elections for prosecutor and sheriff scheduled in 2023. Below is our Bolts database of those local elections. States that are not listed on this page have no regularly-scheduled ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court struck down federal protections for abortion access in its Dobbs decision in June 2022, organizations that champion abortion rights have turned to state constitutions and the ...