Open Secrets has a major new report on the critically important new role that contributions from out of state now play. This is both a reflection of the nationalization of politics, but also a further contributor to that nationalization. Here… Continue reading

From the WP: This historic city has long fueled Democratic victories in Pennsylvania, helping candidates for president, governor and U.S. Senate run up huge margins to offset Republican advantages across most of the state. But more recently, the once… Continue reading

Two stories, one from Germany, the other from Spain, illustrate this dynamic. These stories also exemplify the political fragmentation that now characterizes the PR democracies. On Germany, from Bloomberg, both summaries via John Ellis’ substack: The Alternative for Germany,… Continue reading

From @ShaneGoldmacher at the NYT: The DeSantis campaign said it had around 40,000 donors in May as “we raised over” $8.2 million, according to text messages and emails to supporters asking for more donations. That works out to an average… Continue reading

We're revisiting one of the most important Supreme Court cases you’ve probably never heard of. A case so stressful that it pushed one justice to a nervous breakdown, brought a boiling feud to a head, and changed the course of… Continue reading

This was one of the more fascinating pieces I’ve read on the sources of weakness in modern state parties, how that weakness affects their competitiveness, and the role of non-party, outside donors in that process. We’ve known that the McCain-Feingold… Continue reading

Odd WP headline, since that’s the point of having any rules for inclusion. But here are the details — these are the rules for the first debate only: The Republican National Committee will require presidential candidates to attract 40,000 individual… Continue reading

The Texas Tribune: Texas Republicans have muscled through legislation allowing unprecedented state interventions into elections in Harris County, the most populous county in Texas, threatening to drastically overhaul elections in the Democratic stronghold. The bills targeting Harris, which would… Continue reading

From the WSJ: Twitter’s top official for monitoring safety and content moderation said she resigned Thursday, the second time an executive with that role has departed since Elon Musk bought the social-media company in October. Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head… Continue reading

From the WP: An Atlanta-area investigation of alleged election interference by former president Donald Trump and his allies has broadened to include activities in Washington, D.C., and several other states, according to two people with knowledge of the probe… Continue reading

A sad story that exemplifies what’s been happening with election administrators in several areas around the country. From the WP: After facing an onslaught of harassment and violent threats for certifying the results of the 2020 election, a Republican on… Continue reading

Marion County, IN (home of Indianapolis) has been the site of two major Supreme Court election-law cases, Whitcomb v. Chavis and Davis v. Bandemer. A  lawsuit has now been filed asking a federal court to declare Marion County’s system of… Continue reading

This NYT story runs counter to a lot of the narratives after 2022, but the story explains what its data analysis differs from those narratives: In the 2020 presidential election, voters who were 18 to 29 in 2008 backed Joe… Continue reading

Charles Stewart summarizes some of the main findings at ElectionLine. The full report is here. The percentage of voters who cast their ballot by mail dropped more than 10 points from 2020, to 32%. 40% of mail voters… Continue reading