Domestic and international political coverage — campaigns, legislation, power, and policy.
The disclosure fight isn’t happening at the FEC level — it’s happening inside the IRS, where the definitions of “political activity” quietly determine what the public gets to see.
Dark Money and Disclosure Loopholes Read More »
A handful of nonprofit funds have learned how to reshape politics by building the infrastructure beneath it. They don’t run campaigns — they manufacture the groups that influence campaigns.
Arabella’s Four Funds Read More »
Voters don’t wait for legislatures to tell them how to participate — they adapt first, and the law eventually follows. Once a population internalizes a method of voting, the system reshapes itself around that habit whether policymakers like it or not.
Behavioral Lock-In Read More »
Election rules aren’t being rewritten in legislatures as much as they’re being rewritten in training rooms. A network of “nonpartisan” NGOs has figured out that shaping clerks is more powerful than shaping candidates.
Training the Clerks Read More »
Mail ballots didn’t become dominant through statutory change—they became dominant through cultural change.
Mail Ballot Normalization Read More »
Wisconsin’s drop-box rulings didn’t just affect one state — they created a roadmap for nationwide replication. Local authorities are now deploying boxes strategically, using administrative discretion and demographic mapping to reshape turnout patterns.
Minnesota’s fraud crisis finally exploded into national view, and we compare Gov. Tim Walz to Stede Bonnet — the “Gentleman Pirate” who never realized he wasn’t the one steering the ship.
Tim Walz: Minnesota’s Gentleman Governor Read More »
Economists and government bean-counters have quietly known for years that every murder wipes out millions of dollars in future productivity, taxes, and institutional knowledge — but we still treat homicide as a talking point instead of a national balance-sheet emergency.
Ballot curing has evolved from frantic last-minute outreach into a year-round automation pipeline. AI now predicts errors, prioritizes voters, and personalizes contact long before volunteers ever pick up a phone.
Ballot Cure Teams 2.0 Read More »
The permanent foreign-policy bureaucracy operates independently of elections, sustaining U.S. influence abroad through NGOs, contractors, and long-running initiatives that outlive every administration.
THE FOREIGN DESK THAT NEVER SLEEPS Read More »
