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May 7, 2025
About half the U.S. states allow people to bypass their legislatures by gathering signatures to propose laws.
May 16, 2021
Hundreds of bills have filed in 47 states this year have provisions that would expand voting rights, the Brennan Center…
January 31, 2021
The delay in census figures means Virginia and New Jersey will continue to use decade-old maps that may undercount people…
November 22, 2020
Mauree Turner from Oklahoma, made history as the first Muslim and the first nonbinary person to be elected to the…
November 14, 2020
Democrats may be winning over more supporters, but the party is falling short on critical congressional and state legislature elections.
August 28, 2020
The state legislature of California has stalled on several police reform bills initiated after May's police killing of George Floyd.
March 20, 2012
OPINION - George Zimmerman is a free man despite putting Trayvon Martin six feet under because Florida's Republican-controlled Legislature has…
April 22, 2011
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Senate gave final approval Thursday on a voice vote to a resolution that expresses "deepest…
April 15, 2011
PHOENIX (AP) - Thirteen other states have considered similar proposals this year. The proposals were defeated in Arkansas, Connecticut, Maine…