December 27, 2025

I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to be the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts. In the almost six years that have followed, our world has changed tremendously. 

While Donald Trump is back in office, his ambitions to be an authoritarian have grown. But even as he has become more dangerous, the legacy media has retreated. 

Budget cuts and the rise of independent media have broken traditional media’s hold on the public’s attention. But more significantly, the corporate owners of the largest news outlets have made business decisions to compromise journalistic integrity in favor of sucking up to the regime. 

This has meant strong growth for Democracy Docket. With more than 20 employees, offices in Washington, D.C., and the New York area, it has seen a sharp increase in the number of subscribers and premium members.  

As this year ends, Democracy Docket is more committed than ever to bringing you news that the legacy media is too cowardly to cover. We are bringing you the facts, exactly as they are, regardless of Trump’s preferences.

For those of you who follow me on Bluesky, you may have seen examples of this. Often, I will post a side-by-side of a headline from Democracy Docket and a headline from legacy media. Where legacy media shies away from the true story, Democracy Docket does not — and we never will. 

In case you missed them, here are some highlights from this year. 

In November, Trump threatened Democrats who urged service members to stand up for the rule of law. Yet, several legacy outlets, most notably The Wall Street Journal, went out of their way to obscure the truth in their headline. Trump didn’t simply call for the “arrest” of Democrats, as The Wall Street Journal implies. Referring to the video from the six lawmakers, he wrote, “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

Under Jeff Bezos’ leadership, the Washington Post has become the most visible example of corporate media capitulation. And this headline — “Attorney General Bondi’s welcome woke rollback” — was a good example. 

While the Washington Post was focused on applauding Pam Bondi, Democracy Docket was calling out her department’s probe into the Colorado prison system in its effort to free election denier Tina Peters. Peters is a former local election clerk who was convicted for allowing unauthorized people to access state voting machine software.

While Democracy Docket was reporting on election deniers and their efforts to rig the 2026 election, the Washington Post was publishing opinion pieces that sanitized Trump. “Unconventional” is not how I would describe an interview with a president who is trying to turn into a dictator. 

No news outlet did more of an about-face from the first Trump presidency to the current one than CNN. This headline — which failed to portray the severity of overturning the 90-year-old precedent that keeps Trump’s power in check — is a good example. As Democracy Docket informed readers upfront, the Supreme Court upheld Trump’s dismissal without cause of the last Democratic member of the FTC. 

Actually, David Brooks, we can count you in. 

Just a month ago, the New York Times columnist published an article dismissing the focus on releasing the Epstein Files as the “QAnon mentality has taken over America.” I called out the absurdity then, pointing out two separate pieces from Democracy Docket that portrayed the urgency of releasing the Epstein Files. 

Earlier this month, House Democrats released photos of an event Brooks attended with Epstein. Brooks claims he never met Epstein. But let this be another lesson for Trump and House Republicans, because as Shakespeare said, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Release the Epstein Files.

These articles were just a handful of the many, many pieces written by our incredible Democracy Docket news team — reporters who are committed to exposing the Trump administration without fear and the agendas of corporate overlords holding them back. 

In 2026, you can expect to find us here, on the front line for democracy.