Alaska Public Media:
Election officials finished recounting the results of Ballot Measure 2 on Monday, and the outcome remains unchanged.
Alaska will keep ranked choice voting and open primaries.
The repeal effort failed by 743 votes, or about a… Continue reading
Over at the Brennan Center:
The 2024 election underscored the growing power of big money in politics. This year’s races broke spending records, with megadonors backing candidates not only to push their special interests but to buy government access and… Continue reading
The Independent:
President-elect Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Sunday night and declared that Democrats were “fighting hard” to make all future presidential elections based “exclusively” on the Electoral College.
The curious late-night post prompted many to… Continue reading
NYT:
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Monday that he would nominate Harmeet K. Dhillon, a California lawyer who has long championed Mr. Trump in public, in court cases and on social media, to run the Justice Department’s Civil Rights… Continue reading
WaPo:
The election is over, but the seven-figure candlelight dinners are back.
Make America Great Again, Inc., the super PAC that spent more than $450 million to elect Donald Trump this year, will host another “candlelight” meal with the president-elect… Continue reading
CNN:
Donald Trump derailed his 2020 election subversion indictments by winning back the White House, but dozens of his allies still face state criminal prosecutions that he, even as president, can’t shut down through his Justice Department or short-circuit with… Continue reading
That’s the headline from the Associated Press.
The Electoral Count Reform Act pushed back the date the electors meet by one day to allow an extra day for resolving disputes in the states, without moving too close to the… Continue reading
Michael Wines for the NYT:
From voter ID laws to district map-drawing to judges redeciding cases, North Carolina has long been a laboratory of sorts in ways to amass political power. In recent years, Republicans in particular have changed both… Continue reading
NYT:
Two days before the November election, a rogue team of campaign organizers for Vice President Kamala Harris turned a Dunkin’ Donuts in Philadelphia into their secret headquarters.
Their mission was simple: Knock on the doors of as many Black… Continue reading
NYT:
Former Representative Liz Cheney on Sunday called President-elect Donald J. Trump’s threat to imprison her and other members of a congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol an “assault on the rule of law… Continue reading