Protecting election officials means protecting democracy.

For too long, this law has allowed the government to evade privacy protections and spy on Americans. Reform is overdue.

Amid new and persistent challenges, local election officials are preparing to ensure the 2026 midterms are safe and secure.

Preliminary studies suggest that innovative programs could improve prison conditions and outcomes after release.

The order instructs the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver ballots unless the voters are on a list of approved citizens ...

In March 2025, President Trump issued an executive order attempting to assert presidential control over significant aspects of federal elections. The illegality at the heart of the order is that the ...

The Insurrection Act allows the president to deploy the military inside the United States and use it against Americans, making it one of the executive branch’s most potent emergency powers. It is also ...

Last week, President Trump issued a new executive order that aims to illegally rewrite the rules for federal elections. The principal thrust of the order is to charge the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) ...

With a strong bipartisan vote, lawmakers have agreed to a create a fairer process for drawing the state’s election maps. Virginia lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a proposal on Saturday to create a ...

I was an FBI agent who infiltrated white supremacists. Too many local police don’t take the far right seriously — or they actively sympathize with them. For decades, the Federal Bureau of ...

Summary: This paper surveys the landscape of government acquisition of location data about cell phone users, how that location information is accrued and disseminated, and the technologies that can ...

For years, the Brennan Center has collected research showing that voter fraud is extraordinarily rare. Below is a review of developments and the literature on one subset of voter fraud claims — the ...