Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, ...

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to ...

Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is ...

After years of attacks on voters’ power to take matters into their own hands, democracy advocates are going on the offensive in Montana and Missouri. They’ve placed constitutional amendments on the ...

In June, when Hydee Feldstein Soto became the first Los Angeles city attorney to lose a primary reelection race in nearly 100 ...

Just outside of Tallahassee, nestled among rolling hills and pecan groves of Florida’s Big Bend region, Jefferson County is one of the most rural parts of the state. With only 16,000 residents, it’s ...

This story is part of Bolts’s coverage of state supreme court elections in 2026; learn more. In December 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court delivered two key wins for voting rights advocates, ...

When Washington state voters approved new gun control rules in 2018, several sheriffs announced they would not enforce them because they believed them to be unconstitutional, prompting warnings from ...

Mike Pese visited the grave of his mother, Miliama Suli, in Anchorage on Sept. 13, as he has every week since she died in March. On previous visits, he’d shared with her his fears about the yearslong ...

In 2020, when Fernando was shot twice in the street outside the old Portland Meadows Racetrack, where he was working as a construction flagger, it was actually fortuitous that he tore a tendon in his ...