This story is part of Bolts’ series on sheriffs in the run-up to the midterms; read more on Maryland, North Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin. When New York legislators approved the state budget ...

In Culver City, California, students are trying to drum up support for a November ballot measure to let 16- and 17-year-olds ...

The Trump administration plans to upend the census. They’re proposing to exclude noncitizens from the count that determines the distribution of congressional seats, a move that would subtract ...

When Danny Tarkenton learned that federal agents had shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last winter, she felt concerned that her local officials would not push back should ...

This story is part of Bolts’s coverage of state supreme court elections in 2026; learn more. In December 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court delivered two key wins for voting rights advocates, ...

When Washington state voters approved new gun control rules in 2018, several sheriffs announced they would not enforce them because they believed them to be unconstitutional, prompting warnings from ...

Editor’s note: On Sept. 14, the Supreme Court blocked the new USPS rule that would severely restrict mail voting. The decision removed a huge amount of uncertainty from the midterms, though the legal ...

One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when federal agents in town for the so-called Operation Catch of the Day immigration ...

When residents of Whittier, a majority-Latino suburb of Los Angeles, came out in large numbers last summer to protest a rush of ICE operations, the city’s Republican leaders remained unfazed. Masked ...

A pair of liberal attorneys say they'll be more aggressive in defense of democracy as they try to oust Georgia justices on May 19, as the Callais ruling may make state courts more pivotal. Two liberal ...

We’re tracking elections across 12 states. Virginia and Wisconsin have statewide contests, school board races test conservative messaging, and parties battle to control cities, counties, and even ...

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 federal ...