In a populous city in southeast Virginia, a Republican sheriff who calls himself “Detain ’Em Dave” faces a race to the right against a GOP challenger who wants more immigration enforcement. No ...

Ten years after Kalief Browder’s death by suicide, his story lingers as a reminder of both the horrors of New York City’s ...

The resounding defeat of Ohio’s Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would have undercut direct democracy in the state, received wall-to-wall coverage last week because it salvaged the prospect ...

Democratic U.S. Representatives Mikie Sherrill, left, and Abigail Spanberger are running for governor. Spanberger is running uncontested in Virginia’s primary while Sherrill faces five opponents in ...

Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, local officials in the Bay Area have worked to layer on more protections for immigrant families. In Alameda County, a diverse community that’s ...

Who are the local and state officials responsible for counting, canvassing, and certifying elections? On this page, Bolts maps out each state’s system. It lays out who is responsible for the different ...

This page compiles, state-by-state, the local offices that administer elections at the state, county, and municipal level. It lays out who oversees the preparation and conduct of the election, from ...

This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and The Intercept. Alan Miller had spent the six months leading up to his execution confined to his cell. Though Miller was never given an ...

Donald Trump’s promise of “mass deportations” looms over millions of people who live in the United States. But the infrastructure to detain immigrants didn’t start with Trump. U.S. Immigration & ...

This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and NC Newsline. Every night one of his neighbors was scheduled to be executed by the state of North Carolina, Glen Edward “Ed” Chapman would ...

After securing a majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2022, Republican justices promptly overturned a ruling that had struck down GOP gerrymanders, paving the way for their party’s ...