California is the new ground zero for free and fair elections

Trump's obsession with California's elections is neither entirely new nor surprising.

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Right-wing legal group sues to obtain Oklahoma’s voter rolls

A conservative legal group with a long record of promoting voter roll purges sued Oklahoma, demanding access to its voter registration list just months after the state agreed to hand over sensitive voter data to the…

Trump DOJ bid to defend Ohio’s anti-voting law is useless and untimely, court rules

A federal judge rejected the Trump Justice Department’s attempt to defend Ohio’s restrictive new voting law, finding its proposed filing redundant, disconnected and too late to help the court ahead of a major hearing next week.

Trump’s DOJ wants to purge voters right before elections. Will the Supreme Court allow it?

The DOJ is taking aim at the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) 90-day “quiet period” provision, signaling its intention to cancel registrations across the nation in the days leading up to the midterm elections in November.