Washington Policy Tracker

Progressive voices frame the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision lifting the mail-in voting injunction as a direct threat to election integrity and a green...

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is monitoring Charleston County polls in South Carolina’s GOP runoff to promote transparency and...

The Supreme Court allowed Trump's executive order restricting mail ballots to move forward without ruling on its constitutionality, citing lack of...

Michigan voters hold strong safeguards at the polls.

• Intimidation banned: No one, including ICE or military, may threaten or coerce voters or...

Voting rights groups are suing South Dakota over Senate Bill 175, which requires proof of U.S. citizenship for new voters and creates confusing...

The Trump regime's national voter purge rests on just 185 hand-checked names out of 15,903 unvetted matches in Nevada alone, as DHS admitted on a...

Congress faces a compressed calendar with just 14-16 legislative days before midterms, forcing focus on must-pass measures.

Key priorities include:
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States run our elections, and the federal government has no authority to seize control or insert new barriers between voters and their ballots. This keeps election administration close to the people.

Justice Kagan's dissent argued the decision renders Section 2 all but a dead letter, yet activist groups' claims that the court eviscerated voting rights do not hold up.

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration's January ban on immigrant visas for 75 countries contrary to law, as it directly violates the...

President Trump’s March 31 executive order directed USPS to create rules requiring states to submit voter lists and barcoded ballots for federal mail...

Trump and DHS initially claimed 278,000 noncitizens on rolls across four states, including 15,903 in Nevada, but walked back Nevada's figure to just...

Delaware enacted the John Lewis Voting Rights Act in 2026 to protect against racial vote dilution and discriminatory barriers after the Supreme Court...

Vermont law guarantees equal voting access for disabled citizens.

• Request curbside voting or line assistance at your polling place
• Bring a...

The Trump administration finalized a USPS rule requiring states to share voter lists with DHS and adopt new procedures or face rejected mail ballots,...

A federal judge ruled Arkansas laws requiring resident canvassers and banning pay-per-signature unconstitutional, permanently blocking them as First...

Bipartisan frustration with Congress is clear, yet solutions diverge sharply between ethics fixes and election security.

• Ethics reckoning dominates...

The Trump administration's expanding federal role in elections is triggering alarms over interference and resource shifts.

• Monitor deployment: DOJ...

Three August 2026 decisions expand access by curbing limits on speech, mail voting, and felon eligibility.

• 8th Circuit blocks Minnesota law...

Rep. Richard Neal's record of 19 uncontested congressional terms shows how safe districts weaken democratic accountability.

• Scale of the problem:...