Postmaster General David Steiner sat before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday and delivered the clearest statement on election integrity that any federal official has made in years. Asked whether the United States Postal Service would deliver mail ballots to states that refuse to hand their voter lists over to the federal government, Steiner answered without flinching: no.
For most of the past four decades, the Democratic Socialists of America occupied the outermost edge of American political life. Founded in 1982 through the merger of two older left-wing organizations, the group spent its first 30 years as a marginal advocacy outfit with fewer members than many mid-sized city council races attract in voter turnout. Its membership hovered around 6,000. Its influence on national politics was negligible. Its place in Democratic Party councils was nonexistent.
A federal judge who admitted she would only renounce her foreign citizenship "if required by law" has now blocked the Trump administration from verifying whether voters are actually American citizens.
A federal judge on Thursday limited the scope of legal challenges to President Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting, ruling that plaintiffs can only pursue claims tied to the November 2026 midterm elections.
James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, just told a Houston podcast that he opposes gender reassignment surgeries for minors. That's a big sentence. It's also a lie. Not in the sense that he didn't say it, but in the sense that he doesn't mean it.
Every single Democrat in Ohio's state Senate voted against letting voters decide whether to protect photo ID requirements in the state constitution, even as a new poll shows more than three-quarters of Buckeye State residents support the measure.
Republicans in Oregon gathered more than three times the signatures needed to put a gas tax hike on the ballot, and now Democrats are scrambling as the referendum lands at the worst possible moment: with prices at the pump soaring past $5 a gallon statewide thanks to the Iran war.
Humboldt County, California election officials discovered 596 sealed, uncounted ballots sitting inside a locked drop box six months after voters cast them in a statewide special election that approved a redistricting measure backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Democrats.
A federal judge appointed by President Barack Obama who once blocked North Carolina's voter identification law reversed course Thursday and ruled it constitutional, handing Republicans a major win in their seven-year battle to secure the state's elections.
