Election State By State
Alabama
Brittany Gibson
Still Marching to Secure the Right to Vote
Fifty-five years after the beatings in Selma shocked the nation, Southern blacks are still dealing with voter suppression. Read more
Mar 3, 2020
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How Alabama Tries to Suppress the Vote
On primary day, it’s disproportionately black and rural voters who have to surmount hurdles. Read more
Mar 3, 2020
Alaska
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The House Super-Seats That Could Decide the Presidency
Here is one more constitutional contingency in a lunatic year. Read more
Oct 6, 2020
Arizona
Gunnigle 2020/Allister Adel for County Attorney
Policing Is on the Ballot in Maricopa County
The two women running for top prosecutor in Arizona’s largest county must confront its history of racial animus and police violence. Read more
Oct 31, 2020
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Voter Suppression Is a Constant in Navajo Nation
The pandemic has created new obstacles for tribal members who’ve faced barriers to voting for years. Read more
Nov 1, 2020
UNITE HERE
The Only Precinct Walkers
America’s unions are campaigning for Joe Biden by phone, mail, and text—but not by talking face-to-face with voters. Except for the hotel workers. Read more
Oct 28, 2020
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Lessons From the Pandemic Primaries
What we learned from the Arizona, Florida, and Illinois elections about how to hold electoral contests during the coronavirus outbreak Read more
Mar 20, 2020
California
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Undoing Prop 13
California’s 1978 ballot measure ushered in the era of inadequate government and kicked off the state’s decline. Voters may finally be ready to repeal it. Read more
Oct 30, 2020
The Black Leader Taking Corporate Money to Write Phony Newspapers
The story behind California NAACP President Alice Huffman and ‘Minority News’ Read more
Oct 8, 2020
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An Intraparty Democratic Battle in San Diego
Progressive city council president Georgette Gómez and billionaire family scion Sara Jacobs are battling for an open House seat. But not all is what it seems. Read more
Oct 7, 2020
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How Uber and Lyft Are Buying Labor Laws
California’s Prop 22 could set back labor standards, particularly for nonwhite workers, for decades. Read more
Oct 5, 2020
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Los Angeles County’s Seismic Voting Shift
California unveils some of the biggest election changes in its history on Super Tuesday. After the Iowa debacle, will voters in the country’s largest voting jurisdiction pay enough attention to the new way they must vote? Read more
Feb 6, 2020
Colorado
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John Hickenlooper Is in Trouble
Could the former governor blow the Democrats’ best chance at flipping a Senate seat? Read more
Jun 22, 2020
