Trump threatens to arrest NYC mayoral candidate

• President Donald Trump threatened to have New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani arrested after Mamdani said he would work as mayor to "stop masked ICE agents from deporting our neighbors."

Georgia Republicans installing election conspiracy theorists on local boards 

• Republicans are already laying the foundation for undermining a fair 2026 election in Georgia, where they’re working to install election conspiracy theorists on boards that control elections in two of Georgia’s largest and bluest counties.

Oklahoma set to teach Trump’s election lies in public schools 

• Oklahoma will expect high school students to study debunked 2020 election conspiracies this fall, embedding Trump’s lies into the public school curriculum. Teachers and parents are pushing back. 

The latest on voting rights for young Americans

• Today marks 54 years since the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18, a major win for youth-led activism. Now, Indiana is under fire for a new law blocking student IDs at the polls. Voting rights groups say it's a direct attack on young voters.

A win for Pennsylvania voters

• The 3rd circuit denied Public Interest Legal Foundation's request for a rehearing in a case challenging Pennsylvania's right to limit public access to voter registration records of alleged noncitizens. The case will be dismissed and the state will not be ordered to provide access to copies of all the records related to any voter flagged as a potential noncitizen.

How the Supreme Court gerrymandered the law to serve the GOP

• The Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices are not just gerrymandering rights to produce their preferred outcomes. They are gerry-rigging the law itself to track the political objectives of the Republican Party. Collectively, they make clear that the Republican appointees are fashioning the law based on the vibes of the GOP, Democracy Docket guest author and professor of law Leah Litman writes.