In March 2025, two members of the DOGE team communicated with a political advocacy group that was seeking to “find evidence ...

With 112 days to go until Election Day, President Trump’s drive to undermine the vote continues. As time runs short, his ...

The midterms are just months away, yet the Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing agency staff and scuttling initiatives responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign ...

A newspaper reports on challenges of Black voters in Wake County, North Carolina. The Daily State Journal (Alexandria, VA), July 29, 1872 (Library of Congress). The first laws allowing private ...

Election deniers are abusing voter roll procedures, using false claims of widespread fraud to contest people’s eligibility to be on the rolls or cast a ballot. Since 2020, mass voter challenges have ...

Ames Grawert is senior counsel and John L. Neu Justice Counsel in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program. He leads quantitative and policy research focused on trends in crime and the collateral costs of ...

research and craft innovative policies and advocate for them in Congress, in the states, and in the courts; spark debate in the court of public opinion; build a support base to help us drive our ...

The Brennan Center filed amicus briefs on behalf of former law enforcement officials in two related cases, arguing that federal attempts to invalidate “sanctuary city” policies would undermine work by ...

This series of state-level guides highlights the safeguards in place to ensure that poll workers cannot disrupt election processes. Poll workers play a vital role in administering elections. They ...

Foreign influence is a persistent threat to U.S. elections, and three countries — China, Iran, and Russia — are poised to attempt to influence the 2026 midterms. Though their behavior is not new, this ...

Federal law dictates that only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections. States have multiple checks in place to ensure that only eligible citizens can vote. To even register to vote in state and ...