The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents ...

The 2026 midterms really are starting. Five states hold all of their primaries for federal and state offices in March, and ...

Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, ...

Black Mississippians won a key ruling last year in a case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But ...

In liberal Buncombe County, elected officials have watched the state shrink their powers over detention and immigration. Now ...

Who are the local and state officials responsible for counting, canvassing, and certifying elections? On this page, Bolts maps out each state’s system. It lays out who is responsible for the different ...

This article was produced by Bolts and republished in Spanish by Enlace Latino NC. Leer en español. Editor’s note (March 3): Carla Cunningham lost to Rodney Sadler on March 3, 70 to 22 percent. Last ...

Editor’s note: Arizonans rejected this ballot measure in November 2024. An initiative to protect abortion access in Arizona has gathered more signatures than it needs to make the November ballot. If ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will ...

This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and The Intercept. Alan Miller had spent the six months leading up to his execution confined to his cell. Though Miller was never given an ...