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Chris Taylor’s win on Tuesday expands liberals’ majority on Wisconsin’s high court and locks it in through the next ...

Almost as soon as Kansas lawmakers passed a new law targeting transgender people in late February, state officials started ...

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Each of Oregon's 15 DA elections is uncontested this year, shutting the door for public debate around prosecutors’ policies ...

Pascal is a staff writer for Bolts. He previously worked for Block Club Chicago covering policing and courts, and the city’s west side neighborhoods.

This article is produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Mother Jones. For the first time since the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020, voters in Minneapolis and ...

State supreme courts have come under a brighter spotlight as battlefields for some of today’s most pressing issues, from abortion rights and climate to extreme sentencing and ballot access. And ...

We’re tracking elections across 12 states. Virginia and Wisconsin have statewide contests, school board races test conservative messaging, and parties battle to control cities, counties, and even ...

This article is part of Bolts’ ongoing coverage of the threats faced by the Voting Rights Act. It is published in partnership with MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit newsroom that covers ...

The water system that provides for the entire Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota has been contaminated with dangerous levels of manganese that have made the water undrinkable since May. For Lonna ...

Prisons across the United States run on incarcerated labor. People behind bars cook food, sew clothes, clean facilities, manufacture goods, and even work in dangerous industries like agriculture and ...