Big news out of Utah! A newly created Democratic-leaning congressional district will survive through the 2026 election. Amazing fair districts work from @bbforut.bsky.social and other Utah pro-democracy organizations!

Georgia, unlike Louisiana, will have House primaries proceed as normal this month and won't redraw its map for 2026. But AJC says both parties anticipate Kemp, who leaves office in January due to term limits, will call a special session while he's still governor to pass a new map for 2028.

Gov. Jeff Landry has officially suspended primary elections for U.S. House races in Louisiana. When they resume, the state will be using a jungle primary system instead of the semi-closed party primary system that was put in place. From @piperhutch.bsky.social lailluminator.com/2026/04/30/l...

Check out this graph, and let this sink in. How far we've come and and how far we could backslide:

My latest @npr.org story: The Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress by weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting www.npr.org/2026/04/30/n...

For a Democrat, former New Jersey governor Phil Murphy sure exhibited Trump-like behavior on his pardons and nepotism in his final weeks in office. Disgusting abuses of power that will tarnish his legacy forever. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

NEW: Now that the Supreme Court has rendered the last remaining pillar of the VRA toothless, Republicans in eight states are free to gerrymander more than a dozen congressional districts that had been designed to remedy discrimination against Black and Latino voters. We catalog them all here -->

The Trump administration is now 0-for-6 in court trying to force states to surrender voter registration data

Repeat after me: Dan Osborn can win his U.S. Senate race in Nebraska. Osborn, the independent working-class hero (and non-billionaire) outraised his billionaire kid/Republican incumbent opponent in Q1.

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

NEW: A circuit court refused to block the implementation of Democrats’ new congressional map in Virginia, which voters approved in a special election last week. The judge was unwilling to overrule the will of Virginia voters, and said the RNC's claim against the state was unlikely to succeed.

am I insane or is everyone forgetting that the WHCD is not hosted by the government? Even if the ballroom existed, the press - theoretically independent! - shouldn't be holding their event AT THE WHITE HOUSE

Civil rights groups sue Alaska Division of Elections for sharing voter rolls with DOJ, writes @corinne-smith.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/04/23/c...

Saying it's "determined to act as a firewall" against the Trump administration's push to obtain sensitive voter data, the League of Women Voters of Utah is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice.

‘Revenge is not a strategy’: MAGA struggles to oust Indiana lawmakers over redistricting

U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids celebrates end of GOP bid to gerrymander Kansas congressional districts | #ksleg via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2026/04/22/u...

NEW: More than half a million Georgians have dropped health insurance coverage amid stiff premium price hikes for federally subsidized Affordable Care Act plans, according to data obtained by The Current GA and the Georgia Recorder.

The YES has won in Virginia; voters approved the constitutional amendment to adopt Dems' congressional gerrymander. This is likely to deliver a 10-1 (Dem) congressional delegation in November, compared to 6-5 (Dem) now. The remaining obstacle: State supreme court will be weighing in still.

I have opposed gerrymandering every single time it has come up. It’s a perversion of the political process. I voted Yes in this election without hesitation. Unilateral disarmament is unacceptable.

WSJ reporting from my home state of Maine re: taxing high-income residents. Love to see @stephenking.bsky.social & Garrett Martin from @mecep.bsky.social together on the pro-public investment team. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Multiple high-profile and lesser known Democratic donors, some of whom appear to have never donated to Montana Republicans before now, are throwing financial weight behind GOP candidates running in party primaries for the state Legislature.

The group behind a proposed ballot initiative to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban says it is close to qualifying the initiative to be on ballots this November. #idpol

Michigan’s @jocelynbenson.bsky.social is a champion for voter protection for her state and for all Americans.

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess." A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889

Left of center school board candidates won contentious elections last week in Wisconsin, Missouri, Alaska, and Oklahoma, where culture war issues were flash points. Beyond political and often nationalized fights over book bans and prayer in schools, school boards’ work is typically administrative.

A GOP former lawmaker who tried to advance the measure 3 yrs ago tells @bspears.bsky.social that "it's a jobs bill," & nurses who went to grade school, high school & college in Wisconsin have to leave the state to get licensed & practice somewhere else.

CARDINAL CUPICH: “We’re dehumanizing victims of war by turning the suffering of people and the killing of children and our own soldiers into entertainment. It’s sickening.” No wonder Trump lashed out at the Pope today.

“Alaska is — I don’t even think it’s close — the most difficult place in the United States to conduct elections,” said state Senator Bill Wielechowski (D). The SAVE America Act’s burdens would fall hardest on remote communities that rely on online and mail-in registration. https://bit.ly/3QcX8m7

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

Any US Senator or Representative representing rural communities should vote down the SAVE Act for how it unfairly burdens their constituents of all parties. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Why Graham Platner is connecting with Mainers. Insightful reporting from my home state, by @themainemonitor.org and @notus.com. www.notus.org/perspectives...

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Another Senate district has fallen short of signature threshold requirements — marking what is likely the second nail in the coffin for the effort to repeal Utah’s 2018 voter-approved anti-gerrymandering law known as Proposition 4. #utpol

The leader of the Cherokee Nation vowed to fight to protect Medicaid expansion as Republicans legislators move to make substantial changes to it.

If I'm a GOP member of Congress and I'm in this table, I would be worried about re-election — especially if Trump keeps doing what he's doing and I keep voting to let him www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-07...

State lawmakers of all political stripes are joining forces to pass legislation to increase the supply of housing. ncnewsline.com/2026/04/08/r... via @stateline.org #ncpol

You don’t need to think prior U.S. administrations have clean hands—obviously they don’t—to believe the current one is acting in uniquely dangerous and unprecedented ways.

Wisconsin liberals have just won another state Supreme Court election, in what is shaping up to be a blowout. Importantly: Liberals are now sure to hold a majority on this court during the 2028 cycle and through at least 2030. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...

Alaska Native Leaders Warn SAVE Act Could Disenfranchise Rural Voters Native Vote 2026 The Alaska Federation of Natives is raising alarm over federal legislation it says could significantly restrict voting access for Alaska Native communities, warning that the proposed Safeguard American Voter…

Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed legislation that would end in-state college tuition for immigrants. The bill had fueled spicy debate among Republicans in the Senate. #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2026/04/06/g...

New Hampshire election officials: our elections are secure and there’s no evidence of fraud. New Hampshire Republicans: let’s make voting harder for young people! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/03/m...

Turning Point USA's volunteers are collecting completed ballots from voters in the Salt River Project service area — a practice the group's late founder Charlie Kirk spent years attacking story via @jerodmacevoy.com

A small Nebraska city faces ruin from a plant closure that will end 3,200 jobs. Insightful @stavernise.bsky.social reporting re: the fallout & how local Latinos participate politically, incl. @osbornforne.bsky.social’s fight against a billionaire Republican Senator. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...

AN END TO ANOTHER STAPLE OF CIVIC LIFE? Trump’s SAVE America Act would end voter registration drives nationwide -- @jonshorman.bsky.social for @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Trump Administration cancels $300 million in grants to farmers, including many from Native American communities in Montana. His Admin. is a disaster for rural, farming, and ranching communities.

"What we will not do is skate past the history of my ancestors, my history in this country, of people stolen from across the ocean, many of whom chose the sea rather than to become property of the folks that you seek to defend and memorialize." - Ga state Rep. Tanya Miller, also a candidate for AG.

Maine’s highest court is considering whether it is constitutional to expand ranked choice voting to general elections for governor, state representative and state senator. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/01/l...

“It’s clearly unconstitutional, will be blocked immediately, and the only thing it will accomplish is to make liberal lawyers wealthier. He might as well sign an EO banning gravity.”