Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available ...

ABC15: Republican Jeff Dial, a former state senator, has called Democrat Sebastian Matta to concede the Maricopa County clerk of Superior Court race, both candidates tell me. As of 5pm Wednesday ...

Politico: President Donald Trump went all-in on an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting push to protect the GOP’s House majority. The blue wave washed right over it. In a normal year, Republicans’ ...

I’m not inclined to blog about election results, because readers have plenty of places to get that information. But I’ll post a few things that are interesting and not getting as much attention. This ...

Overall, the Court’s record in addressing the president’s election denialist program was not what its most ardent critics most feared—a Court that, as Ken Burns suggested on Election Day in the New ...

For much of the midterm campaign, progressive Democratic insurgents commanded the spotlight in the fight to wrest control of Congress, defeating establishment incumbents in primaries, drawing ...

Wow: “It just kind of blew me away,” Lowery said. “And a few people I was in line with to get the affidavit, they felt the same way. They had all been registered to vote there. One guy next to … Conti ...

The U.S. Senate election in Mississippi in extremely close. Early morning results show a margin in which the Democratic candidate leads the incumbent Republican by a few dozen votes. More votes will ...

As of this writing, the Alaska and Mississippi U.S. Senate races are too early to call. Both races are very close, and we should expect it could be up a week or two before we know the results in both ...

Wired: Election Day 2026 started off with election deniers claiming voter fraud was happening everywhere. But hours later, after a historic sweep of House and Senate races by Democrats, election ...

Dan Newhouse did not run for reelection. David Valado appears to be losing to Democrat Randy Villegas in a rout.

NYT: Judges throughout the country have dealt the Trump administration a string of losses as it tried to intervene in state-administered elections, including an extraordinary defeat from the Supreme ...