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“Influencers Have a Lot to Say About Politics. Many Are Quietly Paid for It.”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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Chutzpah Department: DOJ, with Its Sole Argument for a Supreme Court Stay Mooted in Trump Mail-in Ballot Case, Still Asks SCOTUS to Keep a Stay in Place

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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Cameron Kistler: “Hog Barns and Ballot Boxes: The Disenfranchisement Tort the 8th Circuit Missed in Minnesota Voters Alliance”

The following is a guest post by Cameron Kistler of Protect Democracy United: The Eighth Circuit has held that a state may criminalize lies used to gain access to a hog barn, because the First ...
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On Blexit’s efforts to urge Black voters to leave the Democratic Party

The Washington Post has a fascinating, relatively short podcast exploring larger questions about where Black voters fit within the two-party system through a story about Blexit’s arrival at Howard ...
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Unanimous Alaska Supreme Court Issues Significant Opinion on Ranked Choice Voting

The following is a guest post by Mike Parsons (Senior Legal Fellow at FairVote and Program Affiliate Scholar at NYU Law): On Friday, the Alaska Supreme Court issued an unanimous decision that could ...
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Party Fragmentation in the UK

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Judge who had sex in courthouse and attended political event agrees to exit Georgia election case”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Americans are increasingly worried about voting, new poll shows”

Rebecca linked earlier to an NPR story on a new NPR/PBS/Marist poll on voter attitudes toward elections in the United States. The NPR story focused on armed guards at polls, but there’s a lot of other ...
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“Kobach files lawsuit to stop census from counting illegal aliens”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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John Fortier on SCOTUS Watson Case: “Mail Voting Deadlines Come to the Supreme Court”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Mapping How Mamdani’s Ranked-Choice Strategy Beat Cuomo”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Colorado Supreme Court Delay Threatens Democratic Redistricting Effort”

The Democrats behind a 2028 redistricting push in Colorado have grown increasingly concerned that the state Supreme Court’s delay in ruling on the validity of their ballot measures could endanger the ...