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A redistricting expert answers questions from Bolts readers about the effort to redraw Texas’ congressional map, and its effects on communities of color and political representation.

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City Attorney Election Puts Seattle’s Renewed ‘War on Drugs’ Under Scrutiny Ann Davison took a punitive turn toward substance use and other low-level offenses. Her challengers for Seattle City ...

Ask a redistricting expert about new GOP efforts to redraw Texas' maps, and the potential impact on Congress and communities of color.

The Democratic Party in Chesapeake, Virginia’s second-largest city, has embraced and endorsed the local sheriff who proclaimed his office “pro-Trump, pro-ICE,” and who campaigned as a Republican this ...

Cy Neff is a freelance writer with bylines at The Guardian and USA TODAY.

On the first of this month, Wyoming residents began facing some of the nation’s harshest rules when registering to vote, and additional barriers may still be coming. Wyoming became the second state to ...