Voting rights reporter @guardianus. Formerly @huffpost. sam.levine@theguardian.com. @samrlevine.bsky.social
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LaVaughn Williams is a former felon who voted for the first time in Virginia today. Listen to her talk about the power of the ballot
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Tarrant county DA spox confirms they will not ask for rehearing or appeal this decision in any way.
Breaking news: The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, a Black Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison in a controversial illegal voting case will end with an acquittal, the state’s highest criminal court said on Thursday. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Breaking news: The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, a Black Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison in a controversial illegal voting case will end with an acquittal, the state’s highest criminal court said on Thursday. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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This error will compound the backlog of voter registration Texas has every election cycle because the state is one of 8 states without online voter registration. Excellent scoop from Natalia for @VotebeatUS:
SCOOP: DPS failed to send Texas county registrars an unknown number of voter registration applications submitted through its online portal. #txlege
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BREAKING: The 8th Circuit has ordred Missouri to reinstate the GOP-friendly gerrymander that appeared dead multiple times after SCOTUS blocked it during previous rounds of litigation.
Back to SCOTUS we go.
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AP exclusive: Postal Service chief says work has stopped on a computer system that was key to President Trump's effort to limit mail voting. apnews.com/article/trump-mai…
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N.C. Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 today, along party lines, to uphold the shift of the State Board of Elections from the governor to the state auditor. Decision could be appealed to the N.C. Supreme Court: wunc.org/politics/2026-09-16… #ncpol #ncga
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After running 18m voters through DHS database, TXidentified roughly 2700 people who could be non-citizens
Officials investigated those 2700 and wound up referring just 117 of them to the AG. Nearly 600 people flagged as non-citizens were actually citizens (staggering 21% error)
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US prosecutors refuse to say if they secretly obtained Don Lemon’s phone records theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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New: The government served an administrative customs summons on Verizon to try and get Don Lemon's phone records, but won't say if it obtained them theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Senator Ron Wyden and Rep. Pramila Jayapal today asked a government watchdog to investigate the use of these administrative summonses. Story: theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Breaking news: The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight, raising alarm over an obscure legal tool it is deploying theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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NEW: The Department of Homeland Security in April quietly sought information about a video published on YouTube by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel jsonline.com/story/news/poli…
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The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of a journalists phone records without judicial oversight and used the same maneuver to try and obtain information on the YouTube accounts of Megyn Kelly, Democracy Now, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Breaking news: The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight, raising alarm over an obscure legal tool it is deploying theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Today is my last day at HuffPost. After 11 years, I was laid off as part of the 33% cuts at BuzzFeed. My team, the National desk, was cut from 7 reporters to 3, after being cut from 14 to 7 just over a year ago
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In 2023, Rhonda Jewell accidentally left 10-month-old Ariya in a hot car, resulting in the baby's death. Rhonda was acquitted of manslaughter — which would have required a finding of culpable negligence — but convicted of third-degree felony murder huffpost.com/entry/florida-h…
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JUST IN: Judge Dennis Saylor (GWBush/MA) takes 1st step towards holding DHS in contempt over ICE undercover operation in and near Minneapolis church gym. Orders response by Friday to show cause motion, conference on 9/4. Earlier: politico.com/news/2026/08/20…
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DHS confirms just 185 non-citizens on Nevada voter rolls after claiming there were thousands more theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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During a call with DHS officials last week, a top official in the Nevada secretary of state's office interrupted a presentation to correct how one DHS official was pronouncing Nevada.
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A 21-year-old recent college grad was behind the fake polling website that shut down earlier this week, the Guardian can reveal.
w/ @sophiemsullivan and @srl
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