Former President Barack Obama has expressed support for California Governor Gavin Newsom's approach to redistricting ...

They want to do this by passing a state constitutional amendment via a ballot initiative during the 2026 general election.

The departure of Texas Democrats who spent two weeks in suburban Chicago evading a vote in their state on a Republican-backed ...

Hot mics, often leavened with video, have bedeviled aspiring and actual leaders long before social media. During a sound ...

A bid to establish a ballot initiative in 2026 to reform the redistricting process for Illinois state legislative map-making ...

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Election results are always subject to wild, often willful, overinterpretation. In a “we the people” society, the consent of the governed is supposed to be essential, but it often becomes ...

Democratic lawmakers who left Texas have scuttled a special session on redistricting but appear set to end their standoff after nearly two weeks. The Republican majority adjourned their special ...

The chairman of the state Democratic Party said the lawmakers “are coming back to fight these racist maps in the legislature and then in the courts.” ...

Ukraine’s future could hinge on a hastily assembled meeting at the White House as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...

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