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By Hayley Harding for Votebeat In the middle of March, Barb Mullaly wasn’t thinking much about elections. She was thinking about how it was allegedly going to be spring any day now, and yet it was still 30 degrees outside in Elk Rapids, her village on the shore of Grand Traverse Bay in Northern Michigan.

By Mariel Padilla for The 19th It was the beginning of her junior year, and 20-year-old Mia Tedesco was setting up a table for the campus open house where more than 200 recognized student organizations were preparing to recruit new students. Tedesco laid out bracelets that read “We are Charlie Kirk” — an homage to

By Ray Suarez for The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Capital and Main An estimated 36 million Latino adults are eligible to vote in the upcoming midterm elections. In the 2024 election, Democrats were shocked to see those voters, especially men, choose Donald Trump by the highest margins Latino voters had given a Republican in decades (Trump

When the “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed in July 2025, officials warned some of the cuts within the bill could devastate rural hospitals. Those cuts are set to hit after the midterm election this fall, and some members of Congress are working to offset them. A total of about $1.3 trillion is set to be

Paddlers skim along the water to the sound of gulls. Small waves splash against driftwood and the banks of the Des Moines River. A flotilla of experienced kayakers, canoers who built their own boats and infrequent recreators expands and contracts, making its way downstream. On and off the water, the conversations are the same —

With Election Day just weeks away, housing affordability is a headline issue. But most of the conversation is about getting people into homes. After identifying in several recent studies that homeownership costs are causing enormous stress, Hometap focused its latest research on the other side of the equation: what it costs for people to stay in

Four years after far-right Republicans helped elect Monae Johnson as South Dakota secretary of state, she’s backing a Democrat to replace her. The cross-party endorsement is unusual. But the more interesting story is how Johnson got to this point, Votebeat reports. Johnson ousted a GOP incumbent in 2022 with support from activists who distrusted electronic vote-counting

“It would go right about … there.” Joaquin Peña nods under a straw hat, motioning to a piece of pipe sticking out of his land roughly 100 feet from the banks of the Rio Grande. Leggy sunflowers bob in the wind against a mountainous backdrop that resembles an old Western movie set. Two dogs named

Voters in four states will decide housing-related ballot measures in November, providing testing grounds for different strategies to boost affordable homes.  The six measures across California, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are the highest number in a single election year in at least two decades, according to Ballotpedia, a nonpartisan election research organization. As Stateline reports,