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Rhode Island Enacts a Permanent Vote-by-Mail Application List, Joining 9 Other States with Permanent Mail-In Lists

July 16, 2025July 16, 2025

Rhode Island has given access to a permanent vote-by-mail list to all voters, in a bill signed by Governor Dan McKee. The state joins nine other states and DC allowing voters to join a permanent vote by mail list.

Local Election Officials Concerned by Trump Cuts to Election Security Funding and Personnel, According to New Survey

July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

The Brennan Center for Justice released its annual survey of local election officials. It found continued concerns for threats, intimidation and violence against poll workers, and the loss of election security funding and staff now that the Trump administration has cut federal election security grants.

Apparent Racial Gerrymandering in Tarrant County, TX Draws Condemnation and a VRA Lawsuit. The County’s Reply? It’s OK. It was for Political Reasons.

July 13, 2025July 13, 2025

Brian is gone today, and we're rebroadcasting a story from last month. But there's an update from Tarrant County since. The county commissioners committed to a $250,000 contract, using taxpayer money, to hire the Public Interest Legal Foundation to defend themselves. PILF, founded by White House counsel Stephen Miller, is the same organization which gerrymandered the districts in the first place.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Warns Judges, ‘The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy – on our system of government’

July 13, 2025July 13, 2025

At a Puerto Rico conference May 1st, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned judges that recent threats from the White house are “attacks on our democracy.” Jackson remarked at another conference July 10th that the ‘state of our democracy’ keeps her up at night.

Updates on Accountability for 2020 Election Fake Electors and Conspiracy Theorists – Or Not

July 10, 2025July 10, 2025

Five years after the fake elector scheme to overturn the 2020 election, legal accountability is grinding along for some of the conspirators and those who wittingly or unwittingly supported them. But pardons may be in the wind, too.