Posts by Tom

Virginia Democrats being forced into political musical chairs is a reminder that redistricting fights are less about voters choosing representatives than politicians choosing survivable maps.

The Associated Press won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for investigating global government surveillance. The political response was to expand the authorities the investigation exposed. That tells you where power actually sits.

ABC’s FCC filing over “The View” is a warning about how regulatory power can chill political speech without ever needing an outright ban.

Virginia’s supreme court struck down Democratic-drawn congressional maps in a 4-3 ruling — not because gerrymandering is wrong, but because Democrats didn’t follow the procedural rules for overriding their own reform.

A federal judge’s rebuke of DOGE’s AI-assisted grant cancellations is a reminder that even popular cuts need lawful process.

Tennessee enacted a new map erasing the state’s only majority-Black House district within a week of the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling—the first of several Southern states expected to follow.

A $1 billion Secret Service line inside a larger ICE and border-funding package is a reminder that the real politics of Congress often lives in the details voters are never meant to inspect.

South Carolina joining the post-Supreme Court redistricting push shows how quickly representation becomes a power-engineering exercise.

The post-VRA redistricting scramble is not just mapmaking. It is a signal that both parties now treat elections as institutional combat.

NPR reports that at least 53 election-denying candidates are running for offices with direct roles in administering, enforcing or certifying future elections. The machinery matters before the crisis.