We covered the Georgia GOP's new law that would make elections for DA and other offices nonpartisan—in just five blue counties around Atlanta. Oh, and all the DAs are Black women. But the precise way the law ensnares these counties hasn't gotten much attention. www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

It really was a great interview, highly recommend. Comms totally on point @sifill.bsky.social 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCse...

Big news out of Utah: A justice announces she's resigning, shortly after GOP launched an investigation into her (for an alleged affair with a lawyer in a redistricting case). The gov will fill the vacancy — just like he's set to fill TWO others because the state GOP just expanded the court.

Michigan stripped Stephanie Scott of her election powers and charged her with felonies, but a judge has ruled she did nothing wrong.

There’s rightly been a lot of focus on where the GOP can gerrymander maps & where Dems can respond, but killing the VRA goes far beyond Congress. State & local district drawn by neutral actors who can’t claim partisanship to defend race-conscious maps could be especially vulnerable to GOP lawsuits

Such a well-deserved award for journalist Phillip Smith, who is reporting while incarcerated in North Carolina. He wrote 4 stories for @boltsmag.org in 2025, you may recall. One was how NC is rising the price of commissary items, pricing people out of basic goods: boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

With the VRA gone, Republicans can gerrymander to secure legislative supermajorities in Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. They could also gain them in the Georgia and Texas senates and make their state houses practically unwinnable for Dems. That makes the 2026 elections existential there

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

Latinos aren’t a monolith, but warning signs are there for Florida’s GOP: “Our poll suggests that 22% of Latinos who voted for Trump in 2024 would not vote for him again… Democrats retain support from 93% of their 2024 Latino voters.” Elections since 2025 “suggest an abrupt correction is underway”

After the legislature failed to approve a new voting system, Georgia counties need emergency intervention to keep running elections.

The Florida GOP’s gerrymander targets 3 white Dems & a Latino Dem whose 9th District should be Voting Rights Act-protected. FL’s constitution bans partisan gerrymandering & racial vote dilution, but DeSantis is relying on SCOTUS & his FL Supreme Court appointees to let him violate the VRA & FL law

over the past 16 years Democrats in Congress have written to constituents about gerrymandering a lot more that Republicans have.

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Mississippi has the highest Black population share of any state but there have only ever been four Black justices in the state’s history, and none of them have ever served at the same time. A judge recently took issue with the state’s “bleak” history.

Seven states have now drawn new congressional maps this cycle. That’s tied for the most in a non-Census cycle in over 50 years.

Exciting Bolts news: @burness.bsky.social's amazing, distressing, infuriating article on how Alaska is prosecuting a community of American Samoans for voting, is a finalist for an "Breaking Barriers" award from the Institute of Nonprofit News. Don't miss it, if you haven't had time to read it:

Scoop from @hayleyharding.bsky.social: A far-right county clerk in Michigan is reportedly canceling voter registrations without authorization. www.votebeat.org/michigan/202...

NEW: A group of election officials sparked concern at an EAC conference when they asked the election agency to create a national voter registration data-sharing network. If pursued, the proposed new network could be the first to be administered and partially funded by the federal government.

What kind of Orwellian stuff is this? "addresses free speech on college campuses" by banning walkouts? I oppose the heckler's veto but come ON

NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate. This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

We've obtained emails between the top election official in Maricopa County, AZ, and the Department of Justice, raising questions about whether he's helping their investigation of the county's elections. www.votebeat.org/arizona/2026...

The @nytpitchbot.bsky.social is really killing it this morning. Didn’t know they were doing AP too.

Roughly 110,000 Virginians voted between Friday morning and Monday morning — as many satellite voting locations opened (esp. in Northern Virginia) this weekend. And, as expected, this finally resulted in a turnout surge in blue areas of the state.

With 45% of ballots now counted, the opposition (Tisza) is leading 52% to 39%, and is projected based on current results to win a supermajority of 2/3rds that’d allow them to amend the constitution.

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No @rephaleystevens.bsky.social? That's a bummer, there's over 500 people here.

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And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

New Washington Post GMU Schar school poll of Virginia Redistricting Referendum Likely Voters Yes 52% No 47% Registered Voters Yes 53% No 44% Trump Approval Disapprove 57% Approve 40% www.washingtonpost.com/documents/0e...

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has directed the state to rejoin a multistate voter data partnership that conservatives have decried.

"DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases." (via @propublica.org)

At least 12,674 Dallas County, TX voters—including 8% of Dems & 6% of Republicans—tried to vote at the wrong location after the GOP forced a reversion from countywide polling places to assigned places for the primary. Many were still able to vote later, but many weren’t—the full numbers are unclear

CISA drops probe into failed polygraph test opened by former chief

It's fair to say that the post-purge Board of Immigration Appeals is systematically adopting the Trump administration's push for immigration judges to be synonymous with "deportation judges."

Tina And The Bobsters - What The Native Girl Sang [US, Soul] (19??) https://redd.it/1ruoi39 https://youtu.be/vT6sVFKtH3s

Every Justice Department or FBI employee who worked on the criminal investigations into President Donald Trump has been fired, resigned, or took early retirement, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said. https://cnn.it/4ddkUrI

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America's wealth gap is growing, and Trump's policies are making it bigger. (@spettypi.bsky.social) www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

The "little to no increase" aspect is never brought up in the media analysis of #election policy (that I've seen), or brought up during questioning towards a spoke person of a proposed law like this (currently happening in Michigan.) Frustrating.

It's almost as if the next honest US President will have to fund the DOJ (and other enforcement type of areas) at levels ICE is getting under Trump. Midterms can't get here fast enough.

You guys…

Not a good sign in particular because of the slowing US mail service. Wonder where the mark date is going to be set - have to mail it in 10 days before to make sure it's counted? Maybe 2 weeks?

At this point I don't wonder how much insider trading is going on. I wonder how much policy is being made with the purpose of insider trading on it.

NEW: Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

"Kids cry often and don’t get enough sleep, in part because lights are on around the clock, she said." This is torture.

Could block more than 21 million Americans from voting. #elections

Trump found a new way to raise prices. For no apparently reason we're losing 200,000 commercial truck drivers in one fell swoop, thanks to rule barring immigrants who are asylum seekers, refugees or recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, from obtaining commercial licenses

Current funky Saturday house cleaning track on 11: open.spotify.com/track/2Ef5pv...

“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union. This could have tremendous implications for voting:

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.