Election deniers spread lies about California’s slow vote counting: ‘Textbook election fraud’
Despite what the far-right is saying, there’s been no evidence whatsoever of election fraud in California’s elections.
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Michael Gates, who helped lead DOJ’s voter roll grab, advances in California attorney general race
Michael Gates, a former Trump Justice Department official who helped lead the administration’s aggressive crusade for state voter data, advanced to California’s general election for attorney general.
Election deniers, vote suppressors, and democracy defenders are running in California’s primary. Here’s what we’re watching
California voters head to the polls Tuesday in primaries that could help determine whether the nation’s largest Democratic state continues serving as a critical counterweight to President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Gavin Newsom signs bill, spurred by Chad Bianco, to block ballot seizures by law enforcement
The law makes it a felony for anyone — including law enforcement — to seize ballots from any California county elections office.
This week at Democracy Docket: Election denialism is alive and well in Georgia and Pennsylvania — while Trump’s DOJ continues to stumble
If you thought President Donald Trump’s deep unpopularity might be moving GOP voters away from election denialism, this week suggested you should think again.
Court bashes internal DOJ legal memo that Trump admin used to justify voter roll grab
The memo claimed the department has the legal authority to demand sensitive voter data not because of some federal law, but because the DOJ said so.
At debate, GOP sheriff accused of breaking law in seizing ballots
Chad Bianco is also linked to the far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers, a fact that came up during Tuesday’s debate.
This week at Democracy Docket: Flooding the zone on Virginia
There isn’t much doubt about the biggest democracy story of the week: Virginia voters’ approval Tuesday of a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment to redraw the state’s congressional lines.
Sweeping GOP-backed anti-voting measure qualifies for California ballot
A sweeping proposal to impose new ID requirements and restrict voting access in California has officially qualified for the November 2026 ballot.
How Democrats fought off Trump’s redistricting scheme
If Democrats’ remarkable victory in the Virginia referendum election tells us anything, it’s this: President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to use mid-decade redistricting to maintain control of Congress in the 2026 midterms has not gone according to plan.
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