Democracy is deteriorating in much of the world and changes in the United States under President Donald Trump threaten to accelerate the decline, according to a pro-democracy institute that has the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democrats and pro-democracy organizations held a rally Oct. 16 to call for the creation of an independent redistricting commission ...

The razor-thin outcome in Virginia’s recent redistricting referendum, which allowed the state to move forward with a heavily gerrymandered map favoring Democrats, should serve as a national wake-up ...

Texas Republicans have just unveiled new Trump-ordered congressional maps that eliminate five Democratic-held seats—deliberately shifting them to the GOP in a bid to lock down control of the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 13—Proponents of a state constitutional amendment to establish a non-political map-drawing process on Friday announced the ...

Gov. JB Pritzker’s beating the drum on legislative maps again. No, he’s not attending to our egregiously gerrymandered state. He’s riled up about mapmaking drama in Texas. Right now, like other ...

With the midterm elections now just 15 months away, the party in power has a long history of losing House seats. Given that the GOP currently holds a razor-thin majority, the likelihood of retaining ...

Gov. JB Pritzker is once again talking about gerrymandering — just not in Illinois. This week, he welcomed Texas Democratic legislators to Oakwood, Illinois, to denounce Republican redistricting ...

President Donald Trump’s drive to secure Republican advantage in the House through mid-decade redistricting, and Democrats’ move to retaliate, could supercharge the partisan shift in Congress. Samuel ...

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