After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Republicans have been actively soliciting tips and info on social media comments about Kirk, helping drive a wave of firings in academia and government. My story for @stateline.org on free speech in this moment stateline.org/2025/09/26/r...

Breaking News: A federal grand jury is said to have indicted James Comey, after President Trump intensified his pressure campaign on the Justice Department.

New Hampshire is on the list, meaning Trump’s DOJ is now suing a Republican election official for voter data

BREAKING: The Justice Department sues six states for failing to turn over voter registration rolls.

There’s a growing number of these lawsuits fighting employment actions related to comments about Charlie Kirk — and some early signs of success. A federal judge ordered a South Dakota professor reinstated on Wednesday.

SC elections agency faces ongoing legal challenges over voter rolls amid directors’ firings scdailygazette.com/2025/09/24/s... by @jmholdman.bsky.social

🚨 NEW: The Trump DOJ has filed its friend-of-the-court brief in the Louisiana case challenging the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Breaking news: The DOJ will seek to indict former FBI director James B. Comey for allegedly giving false testimony about his role in investigating efforts to influence the 2016 election, days after President Trump told prosecutors punish his opponents.

A wildland firefighter who was arrested by immigration agents while fighting a wildfire in Washington state has been released from detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, his attorneys said Wednesday. stateline.org/2025/09/24/f...

A week after the federal government sued Oregon and Maine for not turning over personal information in state voter rolls, Washington’s secretary of state on Tuesday denied the Trump administration’s request for Washington voters' personal data. buff.ly/6VofmNL via @washingtonstatestandard.org

Any Dem faces significant challenges winning a Senate race in Kansas (last happened since the 1930s). That said, Davids has worked to build up her ag cred in recent years & was endorsed by Kansas Farm Bureau last year. Any path includes tamping down margins in rural counties...those votes add up

When President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening to withhold funding from places with “cashless bail” policies, he escalated a national fight over how courts decide who should remain behind bars before trial. @amandavhernan.bsky.social reports: stateline.org/2025/09/23/c...

People with autism, their family members and advocates said the messages coming from the Trump administration are harmful and wrong. via @wisconsinexaminer.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/peop...

From @maddyfitz.bsky.social + @amelianews.bsky.social: Under a revised federal broadband program, thousands of households, businesses and community buildings across the country will be disqualified from the government’s push to provide more internet access. stateline.org/2025/09/22/w...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

BREAKING: A federal judge just sumamrily struck Trump's complaint against the New York Times, essentially calling it, essentially, garbage. Must be rewritten within 28 days. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Via @jonshorman.bsky.social and @stateline.org: At least four states with Republican chief election officials have offered public data but not sensitive information sought by the Justice Department, while trying to avoid a fight with President Donald Trump. Another has refused to turn over any data.

From @jonshorman.bsky.social: As the Trump administration demands that states turn over voter data, some Republican state officials are pushing back. stateline.org/2025/09/18/s...

Breaking: Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III will resign after more than a week of turmoil sparked by a viral video of a student confronting a professor over gender content in a children’s literature course.

Breaking: 11 NY Officials Arrested While Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel voted to no longer recommend a combined shot for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella for children under age 4.

Essential reading for Missourians from @katiereports.bsky.social. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/18/m...

NEW - Republican election officials are divided on how to respond to the push by Trump’s DOJ for private voter data, with some states turning over only public info My latest for @stateline.org stateline.org/2025/09/18/s...

A big "one person, one vote" problem bsky.app/profile/luke...

Fed statement tracker tells you what they're trying to say. That first paragraph represents a sharp downgrade in the Fed's confidence about our economic conditions.

Updated with details of the lawsuit the Department of Justice filed against Oregon for not handing over personal data of more than 3 million voters. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/16/t...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it sued Maine and Oregon for declining to turn over personal voter information. mainemorningstar.com/2025/09/16/t...

The Department of Justice is suing Maine and Oregon for refusing to turn over state voter data, DOJ says Last week, the Trump administration confirmed DOJ is sharing voter data with Homeland Security: stateline.org/2025/09/12/d...

Top Trump officials used Charlie Kirk’s death to threaten liberal groups, making unsubstantiated claims about a “domestic terror” movement.

DOJ is sharing state voter roll lists with Homeland Security | via @jonshorman.bsky.social #ksleg

ICYMI - The U.S. Department of Justice is sharing state voter roll information with the Department of Homeland Security in a search for noncitizens, the Trump administration confirmed. stateline.org/2025/09/12/d...

Opponents of the new congressional map hope to file a referendum to repeal it as soon as today. The Secretary of State argues they must wait until the governor signs it. The governor has 45 days to sign it. They only have 90 days to collect signatures #moleg #mogov

Friday afternoon a lawsuit was filed in Jackson County arguing that the attempt to implement a new congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections violates the Missouri Constitution. #moleg #mgoov

President Trump on Friday said that he would send National Guard troops to Memphis, making it the latest Democratic-led city that his administration has targeted as part of a federal crackdown on crime.

The Department of Justice is sharing state voter roll data with Homeland Security, the Trump administration has confirmed stateline.org/2025/09/12/d...

NEW from @coloradonewsline.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/susp...

John Diehl admitted to applying for a federal loan designed to help small businesses during the pandemic and using the money to make payments on a Tesla, an Audi and a Jeep, along with/pool maintenance, country-club dues, mortgage bills and college tuition for a family member. #moleg #mogov

Under pressure, some immigrants are leaving American dreams behind @stateline.org's @tim-henderson.bsky.social looks at people choosing to self-deport amid Trump's immigration crackdown stateline.org/2025/09/11/u...

OREM, Utah (AP) - Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been shot at an event at Utah Valley University, a spokesperson says.

Breaking: Shots were fired at Utah Valley University, where political activist Charlie Kirk was speaking.

Thousands have gathered at the Missouri Capitol today to protest Republican efforts to gerrymander the state congressional map and make it virtually impossible to amend the state constitution through the initiative petition process. #moleg #mogov

Wild story from Trump's militarized DC. @statesnewsroom.com's @ashleymurray.bsky.social witnessed federal agents detain a man, but officials wouldn't give her any info on who he is or what he's accused of.

President Donald Trump’s push to redraw congressional districts for partisan advantage has reached Missouri. Some Kansas City residents are upset about a proposal to cut up the city’s urban core. @jonshorman.bsky.social reports: stateline.org/2025/09/09/o...

— JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Missourians pack into the state Capitol to protest GOP attempt to gerrymander congressional map and overhaul the state’s citizen initiative process. Rally is scheduled for noon. #moleg #mogov

NEW - As Missouri Republican gerrymander threatens to tear Kansas City apart, one corner in a diverse section of the city would be split among 3 congressional districts My deep dive from the intersection of Independence Avenue & Gladstone Boulevard For @stateline.org stateline.org/2025/09/09/o...

In @missouriindependent.com this morning: my look at the potential consequences of the Missouri Republican gerrymander in Kansas City, with a focus on the city’s Historic Northeast area that will be split three ways missouriindependent.com/2025/09/10/o...

Missouri Republicans are advancing a redrawn congressional map that would crack Kansas City's urban core into three districts — with all of them converging on the corner of Independence Avenue and Gladstone Boulevard, home to Independence Boulevard Christian Church. #moleg #mogov

NEW - As Missouri Republican gerrymander threatens to tear Kansas City apart, one corner in a diverse section of the city would be split among 3 congressional districts My deep dive from the intersection of Independence Avenue & Gladstone Boulevard For @stateline.org stateline.org/2025/09/09/o...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will decide whether President Trump has authority to issue tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Oral arguments will be heard the first week of November. #SCOTUS

DOJ is in talks with ICE's investigative arm about transferring the sensitive voter roll data it has collected from states for use in criminal and immigration-related investigations, according to government documents seen by Reuters www.reuters.com/legal/govern...