Conservatives around the country cheered in 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court ended federal protections for abortion. But in Kansas, the anti-abortion movement’s drive to outlaw the procedure has ...

Over nearly a decade in office, Burlington’s chief prosecutor Sarah George has pursued a platform of restorative justice and dialing back low-level prosecutions.

Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting ...

This is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.

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 ...

After a busy stretch in May and June, the elections calendar is quieting down. Only one state is holding its regular primaries in July. It just so happens that this one state, Arizona, is hosting a ...

A voting sign in California, which holds a huge list of major elections in June from governor to prosecutors and local ballot measures (AP Photo/Ashley Landis). June is full of clashes between flavors ...

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 ...

Almost as soon as Kansas lawmakers passed a new law targeting transgender people in late February, state officials started invalidating some people’s driver’s licenses without warning. The law, which ...

At a recent online webinar for Local Progress, a coalition organization for local elected officials, council members from around the country were instructed to, among other things, think about public ...