We revealed how Texas’ claim that it needed to redistrict because it might have illegally used race in drawing its existing map came just weeks after it had denied doing so in court.

Not long later, we showed that Texas had flipped again, now denying that racial concerns spurred the redraw, and blaming the U.S. Department of Justice for the confusion.

We unearthed racist comments made by a GOP senator who played a key role in ramming Texas’ gerrymander thru — later cited in legal filings challenging the map. Our reporting led him to apologize — kind of — on the Senate floor.

And — something we’re especially proud of — we were the only national outlet to cover the full 10-day court hearing in El Paso, Texas over the federal challenge to the map. Our string of reports from the courtroom shed crucial light on the role of the national GOP in directing the redraw, among other issues.

We reported on a leaked DOJ memo that laid out plans to target anti-Trump activists as “domestic terrorists.”

When Trump appointed a loyalist with no prosecutorial experience as an acting U.S. attorney so that he could target perceived enemies with bogus charges, we explained how our justice system had hit a “new low.”

We highlighted the “profound investigative missteps” that a court later found in those cases.

And we exposed how Trump’s hand-picked prosecutors continued to claim the title of U.S. Attorney, in defiance of court rulings finding that they were improperly appointed.

We were first to report on a pledge by the House GOP’s point person on election issues to introduce legislation barring states from accepting mail ballots postmarked by election day but arriving after.

We also reported exclusively on a threat by the administration to sue Ohio for accepting these ballots, which led the state to quickly pass a law banning them from being counted.

We kept readers up to date on an important Republican lawsuit, now before the Supreme Court, which likewise aims to prevent states from counting late-arriving ballots.

And we pointed out, for the benefit of some of our media colleagues, that the GOP isn’t somehow opposed to Trump’s anti-mail-voting crusade — in fact it’s in lockstep behind him.

We exposed a top federal election official's unhinged rant about Democrats and illegal voting — leading to calls for her to step down.

We revealed that DHS gave a briefing to Cleta Mitchell’s anti-voting group on how to use a federal database to remove voters from the rolls.

We created innovative maps that tracked Trump’s National Guard deployments and that kept readers up to date on the redistricting wars. 

And we surfaced fears that Trump’s National Guard takeover could allow him to put troops at the polls next year, or otherwise seize control of elections.

2026 figures to be even more consequential for the future of our democracy. And once again, we’ll be keeping you in the loop, every step of the way.