American democracy depends on a system that has proven remarkably resilient in administering free and fair elections across our vast and diverse country. That resilience comes from a network of…
An Issue One review of newly filed federal lobbying reports shows 11 key technology, social media, and artificial intelligence (AI) companies, along with their associated trade associations, pumped a combined…
President Donald Trump has reshaped the presidency to drastically blur the lines between government and business, abetting unprecedented levels of pay-to-play political corruption and blatantly exploiting our nation’s highest office…
Overview This explainer provides an overview and analysis of President Trump’s March 31, 2026 Executive Order titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections.” The executive order would significantly…
Included below is an executive summary of Updating the Internet: Restoring the Vision of Section 230. To read the abridged or full report, click one of the links below.
Included below is an executive summary of Laboratories of Capture: How the Tech Lobby Shapes State Data Privacy Laws. To read the full report, click the link below.
This explainer compares the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, the SAVE America Act, and the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act to outline how each proposal would change voter…
When Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965, it understood a hard truth about power: discrimination in voting is rarely done explicitly or out in the open. More often,…
Introduction In the five years since the monumental 2020 presidential election cast an intense spotlight on election administration processes, the public servants from across the ideological spectrum who run our…
President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House has been defined by its repeated intervention on behalf of dominant technology firms, from picking winners and losers to shielding the…
