Justin Heap, an Arizona lawmaker who has pushed for severe voting restrictions and whose campaign was led by an indicted 2020 ...

The measures would have largely ended judicial elections and squashed future citizen-led initiatives, which progressives have ...

Ohioans on Tuesday rejected Issue 1, a ballot measure that would have created a new independent redistricting commission and ...

Monique Worrell defeated the prosecutor Ron DeSantis appointed to replace her last year. In Tampa, however, another ...

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

Los Angeles' George Gascón and Oakland's Pamela Price sought to use their offices to redress the harms and disparities of the ...

Amber Smith thought she’d never be allowed to cast a ballot in her home state of New Mexico. Thirty years ago, when Smith was 18, she was convicted of a marijuana-related felony and sentenced to three ...

Whoever wins the presidency on Nov. 5, a large share of the decisions on crime, policing, and immigration enforcement will come down to the prosecutors and sheriffs elected on that same day—officials ...

Our team at Bolts has spent much of the last year reporting on the stakes of the 2024 elections. Then last month, we turned the mic over to you: As part of our series “Ask Bolts,” we invited you to ...