Alaskans appear to have narrowly rejected Measure 2, a ballot initiative that would have repealed the state’s open primary ...

This article was published as a collaboration between Bolts and The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering ...

Cynthia Mendoza’s first pregnancy, in the free world, was a time of enveloping love and anticipation. But in 2006, six months into her second pregnancy, Mendoza was arrested and jailed pre-trial in a ...

Justin Heap, an Arizona lawmaker who has pushed for severe voting restrictions and whose campaign was led by an indicted 2020 “fake elector” for Donald Trump, has won control of one of the country’s ...

More than before, progressives working to protect people’s rights will need state supreme courts to be hospitable to lawsuits ...

Bolts closely covers local and state elections and their ramifications for civil rights, voting rights, and criminal justice. Here find our coverage of the 2023 elections in Pennsylvania, scheduled ...

Fort Worth advocates who have spent years protesting and demanding outside intervention over rising jail deaths say they’ll ...