My latest article looks at the effect of violence in determining elections In 1870 Florida, Klan violence intensified, leading to thousands of Black voters being kept from the polls. Intimidation and direct murder reigned across Florida #flapol mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-275-...

Part 1 of my Florida Reconstruction to Jim Crow series is live! This first issue looks at the 1867-1868 Elections in Florida, the first time Black men could cast ballots. While federal troops protected voting, internal political battles waged #FlaPol mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-274-...

Part 1 of my Florida Reconstruction to Jim Crow series is live! This first issue looks at the 1867-1868 Elections in Florida, the first time Black men could cast ballots. While federal troops protected voting, internal political battles waged #FlaPol mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-274-...

Today marks the start of Black History Month Florida has no shortage of major moments in Black history; from the Civil War through Jim Crow This link has a collection of several history articles I've written on Black Florida political history #FlaPol mcimaps.substack.com/p/special-is...

Need a break from distressing national news? I have a new history article out. Looking at the electoral career of George Martin, a state lawmaker and eventual Tallahassee Mayor. A look back in time in rural capital-city politics #flapol mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-270-...

Leading democratic politicians should make plans to be in Springfield on February 4th

yup that's the median voter alright

I have published my final analysis and numbers breakdown of the Miami Mayor runoff This piece looks at final turnout figures for vote and how Higgins massively over-performed party metrics. She did far better with independents than Harris #flapol mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-267-...

Last night, Democrat Eileen Higgins won the election for Mayor of Miami, giving the office to a democrat for the first time in over two decades! I dive into the results and break things down in my latest newsletter mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-266-...

Last week, Orlando voters ousted their last Republican city commissioner. An incumbent since 2012, Jim Gray was trounced by former State House member Tom Keen I dive into the details of the race in my latest article mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-261-...

Last week, Orlando voters ousted their last Republican city commissioner. An incumbent since 2012, Jim Gray was trounced by former State House member Tom Keen I dive into the details of the race in my latest article mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-261-...

In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.

In Miami, Democrat Eileen Higgins easily advanced to a December runoff with Republican Emilio Gonzalez Thanks to incredibly strong Democratic turnout, fellow Dem Ken Russell almost edged into second! This also marks the end for several longtime politicos. Carollo, Suarez, Portilla. The titans fell

Turnout in Miami as of 1pm. Democrats have done a very good job getting their side out. In 2024, democrats had a 6% lead in vote cast. Right now that lead is almost 13%!

Really great rundown here of the Miami Mayoral race for those curious.

Today Miami has a dynamic 6 way race for mayor. Actually it’s 12 but we have 6 candidates who all have a shot at making the runoff I delve deep into the race dynamics here mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-259-...

Happy Halloween! 🎃 I present. The partisan breakdown of the over 1,200 elected county CORONERS in America 💀 You can read all about these spooky elections here mcimaps.com/halloween-20...

No state has seen a bigger shift in the party affiliation of county coroners than Arkansas In 2017, Democrats dominated the office. Now in 2025 the GOP has 3x the offices. A vast majority of this is party switching or retirements. More coroner maps in coming days 🎃

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

The great 2025 Coroner Elections breakdown is almost done. 🎃 Thursday or Friday, we will see how all these dark purple counties voted in their races for county coroner! You can read my 2021 breakdown here and guess which areas changed parties mcimaps.com/halloween-20...

Today in Akron, Ohio, as well as in several other towns, kids will be going Trick or Treating tonight 🎃🍭 Several townships in the Midwest, especially in the suburbs south of Cleveland, designate official trick or treat days, rather than simply go with Halloween

Latest article is live! A deep dive into the Louisiana redistricting debate and the roll of the Voting Rights Act The VRA is not responsible for Louisiana’s bad lines. That was Republican line drawers mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-257-...

Ah, locals mention the federal court order here, which also requires agents to wear some identification. Also, quite an image in here: masked, fully-geared-out DHS agents getting screamed at in a residential neighborhood by some dude who is barefoot and in pajama pants.

Latest article is live! A deep dive into the Louisiana redistricting debate and the roll of the Voting Rights Act The VRA is not responsible for Louisiana’s bad lines. That was Republican line drawers mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-257-...

Day 19 of mapping #CoronerElections for Halloween Mississippi used to be heavily Democratic down-ballot, and that was reflected in coroner posts. By 2023, however, things had flipped, thanks largely to retirements or party switching. Only a few incumbents actually lost

Day 18 of mapping #CoronerElections for Halloween 🎃 In 2023, Democrats flipped the coroner post in just 1 county in Mississippi's elections In Pike County, David Taylor, the owner of a local funeral home, defeated deputy coroner Chan Thomas, who was trying to hold the office for his retiring boss

Meant to post yesterday! Day 17 of mapping #CoronerElections for Halloween 🎃 Montana is a state where a vast majority of counties elect the office of "Sheriff & Coroner." In addition, a batch of counties elect coroner non-partisan. Only 9 counties do partisan elections.

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Day 16 of mapping #CoronerElections for Halloween 🎃 In 2020, Lake County, IL - one of Chicago's "Collar Counties" - saw DEMs sweep local offices, ousting the Republican Coroner & State Attorney. This continued the long trend of down-ballots catching up with President top-lines

Day 15 of mapping #CoronerElections for Halloween 🎃 New York State still has several upstate counties that have elected coroners. Several actually elect multiple coroners to districts! This is as of 2021, and I will have a 2025 update later this month

Day 14 (I'm a day late) of mapping #CoronerElections for Halloween 🎃 A crazy example of ticket splitting at the local level. In 2019, Webster County elected a Democrat to its open coroner post while at the same time voting heavily GOP for Governor

Day 13 of mapping #CoronerElections for Halloween 🎃 In 2023, incumbent Democratic Coroner Mack Wilemon opted to run for re-election as a NPA. This worked out for him, leading to his victory in a county that went Republican by almost 50 points in the #MSGov race

When Christopher Columbus enslaved the people of Hispaniola, using them to mine for gold, he refused to try and convert them to Christianity Why? Well, at the time, catholic law forbade enslaving fellow Christians I mean, what was he gonna do? Not enslave them? Get real

Day 12 of mapping #CoronerElections for Halloween 🎃 In 2018, a crazy dynamic played out in the Butler County, Alabama coroner election. Incumbent Wayne Garlock lose his re-election in the Democratic primary. But then he WON as a write-in that November!

And who also waited until Trump got into power to retire.

Yesterday, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuela democracy activist María Corina Machado I actually wrote about the collapse of democracy in Venezuela last year, and have an update I just released, looking in depth at the rigged 2024 vote there mcimaps.substack.com/p/repost-spe...

Day 11 of #MappingCoroner elections for Halloween 🎃 The 2017 Primary for Orleans Coroner sparked my fascination with this office. That year, Dwight McKenna, previously in jail for tax evasion, won the office of coroner when the incumbent opted to abandon his own re-election

The Maduro folks, of course, published false results and claimed victory. Their totals are below. What is especially notable is that their totals were virtually impossible, with each candidate getting a perfect 10th of a percent of the vote, a statistical impossibility

The opposition knew the Maduro regime would report false results, so democracy activists coordinated efforts to copy the ballot tally sheets from polling stations and post them to a central hub Those tallies showed the opposition easily defeated Maduro

In the 2024 Venezuela Presidential election, Machado was barred from running. However, the opposition activists got Edmundo Gonzalez to stand in as the candidate of choice

Yesterday, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuela democracy activist María Corina Machado I actually wrote about the collapse of democracy in Venezuela last year, and have an update I just released, looking in depth at the rigged 2024 vote there mcimaps.substack.com/p/repost-spe...

Day 10 of mapping #CoronerElections for Halloween 🎃 In 2023, Lousiana held its state and county elections. The state is home to a very large number of people who run and get elected coroner as NPA candidates, holding 18 posts Democrats are down to 3....

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Day 9 of mapping #CoronerElections for Halloween 🎃 Heading into the 2022 midterms, Kentucky had more Democratic coroners than Republicans. However, in that year's races, Republicans flipped 26 offices! However, only FOUR of these were incumbents being defeated. Details below

WATCH: Winsome Earle-Sears says her opposition to marriage equality or her support for LGTBQ+ Americans being fired for being gay is "not discrimination." #VAGov

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Today is “Leif Erikson Day” in America Every October 9th celebrates the Norse explorer who led, as best we know, the first European expedition to North America, 400+ years before Columbus This fact is woefully overlooked in American history classes

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...