Jen reports on threats to democracy in states across the country. She previously covered elections and local government at the Houston Chronicle and at Houston’s NPR station. She loves voting early on Halloween.
A group of minority voters in Tarrant County, Texas filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday accusing local Republicans of racial gerrymandering, a day after GOP leaders approved a new map designed to shrink the voting power of Black and brown residents.
The Republicans who run one of Texas’ biggest counties have recruited the national GOP’s top map-drawer, as well as a leading Washington D.C.-based voter suppression group, to ram through a new gerrymander that aims to expand their majority.
President Donald Trump and the GOP have launched a new offensive in their long-running war on voting.
Texas voters could encounter concealed guns at the polls starting this year.
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs was sworn in after a six-month legal battle against a Republican judge who sought to overturn the election results.
A federal court ruled that Alabama’s 2023 congressional map violates both the Voting Rights Act and the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
A federal court ruling looks likely to bring to an end the months-long GOP effort to overturn the election. But the saga still isn’t officially over.
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