State overviews for election officials and government attorneys on what the law says and suggestions on how to prepare ahead of the midterms.

Congressional seating is decided by the voters, and the system is built — through law, precedent, the courts, and democratic ...

A political cartoon depicting the three-way election of 1824 as a chaotic footrace. The resulting contingent election was decried as “the corrupt bargain.” To win the Electoral College, a candidate ...

The founders always intended for the House of Representatives to grow with the country. The House of Representatives is stuck. For over 100 years, it’s been frozen at 435 members. Yet the number 435 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Nine organizations representing immigrants, communities of color, and workers — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Mi Familia en Accion, OCA – ...

In 2025, President Trump made $2.24 billion while serving as the country’s most important public official. That kind of profiteering is a remarkable outlier in the history of presidential politics.

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) et al. On behalf of the Electronic Privacy Information ...

Most Americans live in a congressional district where the election is effectively decided before a single vote is cast — not because of who is running, but because of how district lines are drawn. The ...

In March, we published Executive Override: How the Trump administration is using federal power to deceive Americans, disrupt our elections, and deny fair results — and what we can do to stop it. The ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is a federal bureau within the Treasury Department responsible for — among other duties — collecting federal taxes and identifying and resolving instances of fraud ...

Protect Democracy and co-counsel represent Common Cause and four individual voters in a lawsuit to stop the Department of Justice (DOJ) from building an unprecedented national voter database. The DOJ ...

Today, Common Cause and four individual members sued the Trump Administration to block the Department of Justice (DOJ) from illegally stockpiling millions of Americans’ confidential voter data and ...