The president moved to fire the Democratic chair of the Federal Election Commission, opening the door to weaponizing the ...

The matching program’s inaugural run expanded legislative candidates’ reliance on small donors from within their districts.

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a conservative administration, proposed a number of actions that would ...

It’s called the SAVE Act. It would require all citizens to produce a document like a passport or birth certificate each time ...

Although the new president undid many of the previous administration’s policing reforms, Trump should still build on the beneficial policies of his first term. Hours into his return to the Oval Office ...

In President Trump’s first week, the new administration revoked Biden-era Department of Justice policies designed to mitigate ...

The losing candidate for a seat on the high court is trying to have more than 60,000 valid votes thrown out. In a dispute ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter — receive it in your inbox. “In America,” Thomas Paine wrote at the founding, “the law is king.” Amid today’s ...

To kick off the year, House Republicans reintroduced the SAVE Act, which would require every American to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register or re-register to vote. The bill passed ...

The Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is a controversial decision that reversed century-old campaign finance restrictions and enabled corporations and other ...

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