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Kansas lawmaker Pat Proctor authored a new law this spring to restrict mail voting. Then, he announced he is running in 2026 for Kansas secretary of state, a job that would hand him power to supervise elections and create statewide rules for their conduct. boltsmag.org/restric...

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He once faced discipline over allegations he punched a 13-year-old. He’s now one of the officers approving felony charges in Chicago’s new bypass program, which allows police to file more charges without a prosecutor’s review. boltsmag.org/cook-co...

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This is happening in spite of the fact that the president is not in charge of the Smithsonian. It's not an executive branch government agency, rather it's chartered by Congress and under a board of regents created by statute, none of whom are even appointed by the president.

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Kirk Haskins, the ranking Democrat on the Kansas House Elections Committee, opposes a bill the GOP adopted to restrict mail voting. “No matter how you slice it, it’s about voter suppression. They just want to create fear and to control who will vote.” boltsmag.org/restric...

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You asked us many questions about immigration detention: Why did sheriffs become such huge players in detaining immigrants?Who is making money off of this? Can local governments stall detention efforts? Bolts invited an expert historian to answer you. boltsmag.org/the-pas...

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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

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not a iota of care about hiding it www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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Big news: The North Carolina Supreme Court rejected the GOP's challenges to tens of thousands of ballots... but accepted GOP's challenge to thousands of overseas ballots — all cast only in 4 blue counties — which could (likely?) be enough to overturn the supreme court race.

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Today I spoke w/ @psfrench.bsky.social part-time Staff Writer @bolts.bsky.social about her coverage of the wrongful conviction of Jimmie "Chris" Duncan. As Chris fights to prove his innocence, Governor Jeff Landry is trying to make it easier to execute people quickly open.spotify.com/episode/12h9...

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Thread unpacks what the “BUT” and screengrab mean:

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A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated.

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this whole article, it’s hard to know where to start www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

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What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

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Which is why he is still trying to sabotage the US Postal System.

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Not a single time in this article glorifying the need for sprawl to address the US's affordable housing crisis is there a mention of the vast transportation costs of sprawling living patterns. Nor is there mention of the fact that sprawl is directly linked to disinvestment in urban cores.

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In a new social-media campaign from the American government, the federal agency ICE promised to prevent ‘illegal’ ‘ideas’ from entering the country.

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New: Conservatives are moving quickly to reject more ballots by ending "grace periods" for vote-by-mail. In the last few weeks alone, we've seen movement on this in Kansas, Utah, West Virginia, at the 5th Circuit, and through Trump's EO. boltsmag.org/restrictions...

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The filing deadline for Virginia's elections has passed. Democrats filed candidates in 96 of 100 House districts, and Republicans filed candidates in 66 of 100 districts, per virginiamercury.com/2025/04/08/f...

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Virginia Democrats adopted a reform this year to automatically restore people's voting rights when they leave prison. But the measure has to survive several more obstacles to amend the constitution, Bolts explains: boltsmag.org/virgini...

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NEW: Indiana's legislature adopted a bill yesterday that bans the use of student IDs for voting. (On to the GOP governor.) The bill was championed by the GOP over the objections of voting rights groups & student organizers. I wrote about it last month: boltsmag.org/indiana-bann...

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BREAKING: Trump-appointed federal judge blocks all deportations from southern district of Texas under Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation for Venezuelan alleged gang members. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEW: Kansas and Utah in recent weeks have passed laws that ban mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, but have been postmarked before polls close. And Trump issued an executive order claiming to ban them. All this, while GOP actions are threatening mail: boltsmag.org/restrictions...

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This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

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ELECTION RETURNS: It looks like the special election for a seat on the San Diego board of elections won't be resolved tonight, and will instead go to a July runoff. This means the board of the nation's 5th most populous county will remain deadlocked 2-2 for a few more months.

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ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

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Election result: Cara Spencer just ousted St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones (as expected given the massive gap between them in the first round). This was a rematch of the 2021 race. www.stlpr.org/government-p...

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Remember the 'fix' to the blow to DC funding that Schumer said he got as part of why he voted for the funding package past month? It still hasn't made it past the House, predictably, and Politico says it's not moving forward before recess: www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Michigan's supreme court issued a ruling that says police can't search a car just based on the smell of marijuana, blocking a prosecution that was built off of that: apnews.com/article/mich...

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UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

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What a rich text

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So proud of this victory. As usual I would like to thank my haters— I truly could have done it without you but I’m glad y’all were along for the ride.

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. @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social has another story of a family torn apart by Trump sending a man to a Salvadoran mega-prison without due process. His family, like others, says he was misidentified as a gang member because of benign tattoos. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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You have to file habeas where you’re confined but we don’t have to tell people where you’re confined.

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An important election today: In San Diego, the nation's fifth most populous county, the board has been tied since January because a Dem commissioner unexpectedly resigned. The race to replace her starts today, could go to a runoff. One of my April races to watch: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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A boost for Dems' Senate map in 2026: Sununu, the former New Hampshire governor who won in big routs four times, won't run for the open race next year. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...

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As Election Day approaches in Newark’s school board race, teens are energized and ready to vote. 16-year-old Gabrielly Ferreira told Bolts, “Voting gives me power to shape my education.” boltsmag.org/newark-...

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Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal."

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with just 3 weeks from the elections in Canada, checking in on the polling averages. 338canada.com/federal.htm

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Expect Bolts to be a little slower than usual for a few days — we're concocting some great plans for you at our (remote) team's annual get-together... ... while we're not busy winning trivia!

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I was frustrated and angry about how the conversation about the Twenty-Second Amendment was developing, and in an effort to prevent, idk, an entire literature from developing overnight??? I wrote something about it. we'll see how the law reviews feel about a short essay very late in the cycle.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court, on a 5-4 vote, ends the TROs in the Alien Enemies Act litigation, holding challenges must be brought in habeas and in the jurisdiction in which detainees are held. The court also holds that notice and an actual opportunity to bring a habeas case must be given.

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Want to catch up on all—yes, all—the #HandsOff protests this weekend? @donnermaps.bsky.social has collected Bluesky posts of photos from more than 1,100 cities great and small on this interactive map -->

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