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Jun 16 2022
News
Elections
“Republican Mayra Flores prevailed Tuesday in a special election for an open congressional seat in South Texas, marking a major breakthrough for Republicans eager to blaze new inroads in the historically blue region.” (Texas Tribune)
Also on Tuesday, primary elections were held in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Carolina. Ballotpedia
Many on both sides agree that the
The Flip Side
Jul 30 2022
News
These are the gun control laws passed in 2022 so far
(CNN)Several mass shootings and a sustained rise in gun violence across the United States have spurred law enforcement officials and lawmakers to push for more gun control measures.
President Joe Biden in June signed into law the first major gun safety legislation passed in decades. The measure failed to ban any weapons, but it includes funding for school safety and state crisis
CNN (Online News)
Jun 22 2022
News
U.S. officials are worried about Russia interfering with 2022 midterm elections
Homeland Security officials are worried that Russia may create conflict during the November 2022 midterm elections, CNN reports.
However, as of now, U.S. officials say that this situation is hypothetical.
Potential breaches: Officials are worried that if Russia does interfere, a situation like this could take place:
“Russian hackers breach a local county voter registration
Deseret News
May 27 2022
Analysis
Voting Laws Roundup: May 2022
This year, state lawmakers, who spent 2021 passing laws that made it harder to vote, have focused more intently on election interference, passing nine laws that could lead to tampering with how elections are run and how results are determined.
Election interference laws do two primary things. They open the door to partisan interference in elections, or they threaten the
Brennan Center for Justice
Jan 01 2022
Opinion
We must not fall short on election reform in 2022
For those seeking better elections and a more representative government in the United States, the coming year is a time of great promise and peril. We have a historic opportunity to advance comprehensive electoral reform, yet have much to lose if we fall short.
I’ve led FairVote since it launched in 1992, grounded in a vision of lifting up structural reform nationally while advancing
The Fulcrum
Dec 03 2021
Analysis
Georgia becomes ground zero for 2022 elections
Georgia is emerging as the most critical battleground of the 2022 midterm elections.
With Stacey Abrams’s entrance into the governor’s race on Wednesday, Democrats landed one of their top recruits, one they hope will also lift up Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), whose seat is crucial to the party’s efforts to hold their Senate majority.
But Democrats are facing strong headwinds
The Hill
Dec 03 2021
News
Georgia becomes ground zero for 2022 elections
Georgia is emerging as the most critical battleground of the 2022 midterm elections.
With Stacey Abrams’s entrance into the governor’s race on Wednesday, Democrats landed one of their top recruits, one they hope will also lift up Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), whose seat is crucial to the party’s efforts to hold their Senate majority.
But Democrats are facing strong headwinds
The Hill
Jan 01 2022
Opinion
Forecasting the world in 2022
The world on the brink of 2022 seems an especially unpredictable, and unsettling, place. For the first time, two FT forecasts this year ask if Russia and China will invade neighbours (we say no, but that may be wishful thinking). Less optimistically, our forecasters warn a more infectious coronavirus variant than Omicron could yet emerge, inflation will not return to US targets, tighter
Financial Times
May 24 2022
News
Election results: How Texas voted in the May 2022 primary runoff
The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to helping you navigate Texas policy and politics — including the 2022 elections. We’re tracking the results of the Texas 2022 primary runoffs happening May 24.
The Texas Tribune
Aug 05 2022
Opinion
The Super-High-Stakes 2022 Race No One Is Talking About
Charlie Crist’s pitch is easy to understand. The first thing to know is that Ron DeSantis, widely thought to be Donald Trump’s heir to the GOP throne, won Florida’s governorship by less than half a percentage point in 2018. The second is that what happens in Florida matters everywhere, since it’s the crown jewel of battleground states in presidential elections. The third is that Crist — a
New York Magazine