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Trump plan to limit mail voting hinders Democrats more than GOP, analysis finds

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[Jacob Fischler | States Newsroom] — President Donald Trump has, at times, justified his campaign against mail-in voting in explicitly partisan terms, claiming Republicans’ electoral chances hinge on whether the practice is allowed. A new analysis from a Democratic-aligned voting rights group, shared first with States Newsroom, shows he may be right: Eliminating mail-in voting […]

Washington Vote-by-Mail remains as First Circuit rejects Trump EO stay

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BOSTON — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on July 25 denied emergency motions by the Trump administration and 12 intervening states seeking to stay a lower-court injunction that blocks key provisions of a presidential executive order on mail-in ballots and citizenship verification lists. The decision leaves in […]

SCOTUS limits race-based redistricting, Republicans now poised to control House

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Louisiana’s congressional map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, striking down a plan that created a second majority-Black district in an effort to comply with the Voting Rights Act. In a 6-3 decision, the court affirmed a lower court’s ruling that invalidated the state’s 2022 map […]

Washington Republican Dan Newhouse will not seek reelection to Congress

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YAKIMA VALLEY—United States Representative Dan Newhouse, a Republican representing Washington’s 4th Congressional District, announced Wednesday, December 17, that he will not seek reelection in 2026, ending a congressional career marked by his vote to impeach President Donald J Trump following the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach. “I am announcing today that I will not seek […]

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