From Axios: Paths to power and winning electionsinside the GOP are changing rapidly and radically, spawning a new generation of kingmakers while diminishing the clout of many who lorded over the party for years. Why it matters: Fourteen of the… Continue reading

From NBC: No top Nevada Republican has raised more doubts about the state’s elections system than U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt, the former state attorney general who still says the 2020 presidential race was “rigged” after having fruitlessly tried to… Continue reading

From American Oversight: Memos obtained by American Oversight show that in the weeks before Trump supporters in several states gathered to falsely proclaim themselves the true presidential electors in the 2020 election, legislative leaders in Arizona and Wisconsin… Continue reading

This analysis is from Emory’s Alan Abramowitz, published at Sabator’s Crystal Ball for the UVa Center for Politics: KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — In the aftermath of the high-turnout 2020 election, many Republican-controlled state governments have passed legislation that… Continue reading

Politico: Donald Trump’s attacks on the bipartisan Senate effort to prevent unsubstantiated and solo objections to presidential ballots are accentuating a GOP split over whether the work is even worth pursuing. The bipartisan group working on reform of the law… Continue reading

Politico: House Republicans spent 2021 erasing Democrats’ fundraising advantage — now they are overtaking them.New campaign finance reports this week paint an encouraging picture of the GOP’s chances of recapturing the House majority. Buoyed by small-dollar donors, their candidates are… Continue reading

Daily Beast: The Republican chair of a rural Georgia election board—which has the power to restrict or expand access to voting, call for audits and investigations into alleged voter fraud, and certify election results—is a QAnon-fixated election conspiracy theorist,… Continue reading

The NYT has this story on racial disparities in rejection rates in Washington state, which is an all mail-in balloting state: Among the thousands of mail-in ballots that were rejected in Washington State during the 2020 election, auditors have found… Continue reading

Different take, from a piece for The American Conservative, by Micah Meadowcroft: “Social media do not contribute to political extremism by letting us sort into ideological silos; instead, they constantly expose us to people with beliefs and ways of… Continue reading

From the NYT: Democrats across the nation have spent years railing against partisan gerrymandering, particularly in Republican states — most recently trying to pass federal voting rights legislation in Washington to all but outlaw the practice. But given the same… Continue reading

From Jonathan Lai, at the Philly Inquirer: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday took control of a high-stakes redistricting lawsuit and will now decide how the state’s congressional districts will be drawn for the next decade.A lower court had been… Continue reading

Politico: In the final days of his presidency, Donald Trump seriously considered issuing a blanket pardon for all participants in the Jan. 6 riot, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.Another adviser to the former president said… Continue reading

I’ve written this piece from NYU’s Just Security blog, on the relationship between preventing electoral subversion and ECA reform. A key line is this: “Proper reform of the ECA would also do much more to address the risk of electoral… Continue reading

From Shane Goldmacher, at the NYT: A series of new remarks by Donald J. Trump about the aftermath of the 2020 election and new disclosures about his actions in trying to forestall its result — including discussing the use of… Continue reading