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Maine judge delays Trump ballot decision until Supreme Court ruling

Who is running for president in 2024? Meet the candidates.

Caucuses leave many Iowans out in the cold – and not just in bad weather

Oregon Supreme Court allows Trump to appear on primary ballot

Here are the key states where Trump’s ballot status is being challenged

Violent political threats surge as 2024 begins, haunting American democracy

A right-wing tale of Michigan election fraud had it all – except proof

Trump appeals Maine’s decision to ban him from the primary ballot

Supreme Court faces pressure to decide if Trump is on the 2024 ballot

Biden’s response to the age meme: Vigor

With Trump’s win, Liz Cheney and anti-MAGA GOP voters face a choice

How we learn to see history: A case study at the National Cathedral

The media’s worst lapse: Refusing to identify Trump as a cult leader

In politics, there are liars and better liars

Biden’s ‘democracy’ message is self-serving — but true

Biden lays out the stakes: It’s about democracy

Biden wants to be democracy’s candidate. Trump makes that easy.

Donald Trump removed from Maine primary ballot by secretary of state

Colorado GOP asks U.S. Supreme Court to keep Trump on the ballot

Read the Maine decision to remove Trump from the 2024 primary ballot

How Trump critics are using the 14th Amendment to try to kick him off ballots

Michigan Supreme Court allows Trump to appear on 2024 primary ballot

Can the exhausted, angry people of Ottawa County learn to live together?

Disqualifying Trump may be legally sound but fraught for democracy, scholars say

American democracy is cracking. These ideas could help repair it.

Trump disqualified from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot by state Supreme Court

GOP voter-fraud crackdown overwhelmingly targets minorities, Democrats

In an Old West town, new Americans fight for representation

Black voters in the South sue for representation, with Congress on the line

Dictator for a day? Scholars say Trump can do damage without being one.

Less appetite — and opportunity — to serve as fake Trump electors in 2024

Pro-Trump electors indicted in Nevada, the third state to issue charges

Wisconsin Trump electors settle lawsuit, agree Biden won in 2020

Arizona officials charged with conspiring to delay midterm election outcome

A boom of ballot initiatives is reshaping this state’s democracy

Dreams dying in a Texas city where immigrants fought for an education

Colorado judge rules Trump can be on ballot but says he ‘engaged’ in insurrection