Make no mistake: The SAVE Act would stop millions of American citizens from voting. It would be the most restrictive voting bill ever passed by Congress. It is Trump’s power grab in legislative garb.

In an effort to use whatever shards of power they hold to rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Democrats in Congress have refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unless ...

Update: When this article was first published, the SAVE America Act included a provision that would have also required voters to show documents such as a passport or birth certificate at the polls ...

Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process. Last year, the Brennan Center partnered with VoteRiders, the Center ...

Since the federal government formally gave Native Americans the right to vote in 1924 they have had to fight to use it. Native American voters living on rural reservations often use ballot collection ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. President Trump has threatened to send troops to Chicago to “straighten that one out.” New ...

The Trump administration’s campaign to undermine future elections is in full swing. One part of that campaign is its bid to sweep up voter rolls across the nation, which began last spring and has now ...

Despite spikes in some cities, crime data doesn’t show a nationwide increase in shoplifting and other forms of retail theft. Violent crime has declined nationally since jumping in 2020, but trends in ...

New research shows that a restrictive voting law in Texas made people less likely to vote for at least two years after having a mail ballot application or ballot rejected. As we showed in 2022, the ...

Trump and Speaker Johnson mislead again about election integrity. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. The Brennan ...

Months of unprecedented actions signal that the Trump administration is pursuing a concerted strategy to undermine the next election. One part of that effort is an ongoing attempt to collect voter ...

Gowri Ramachandran is the director of elections and security in the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program. Her work focuses on election security, election administration, and combating ...