Democracy Wire

Did a Russian banker with ties to Vladimir Putin supply cash that the National Rifle Association used to promote the election of President Trump?

There is fresh evidence this morning that the fight for an open internet isn’t over; aroused citizens can still save it.

North Carolina legislative leaders are doubling down on their investment in un-representative democracy this morning, appealing a scathing federal court decision that congressional districts they fashioned in 2016 are an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

Common Cause members and other voting rights activists gathered for a rally outside the Supreme Court this morning as the justices heard a landmark challenge to an Ohio law that state officials have used to lift the registrations of about 2 million voters

Washington, D.C.’s City Council moved today to join a growing list of local and state governments in shifting power to small dollar donors and away from big money interests.

In Husted v. A Philip Randolph Institute, the Supreme Court has a chance to stop states from purging non-voters from the voter rolls.