Khaya Himmelman

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Red states are scrambling to redraw their congressional maps in the aftermath of the Supreme Court

In a major loss for Democrats on Friday, the Virginia state Supreme Court rejected, in a 4-3 decision , the state's recently approved redistricting

The fairly conservative Virginia Supreme Court overturned the will of the voters Friday, dealing Democrats a huge setback in the... Don’t want to get bogged down in the weeds here, but the plaintiffs ...

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling earlier this month that struck down Louisiana's second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana v.

Amid mounting pressure from President Trump, on Friday, Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, the former elections administrator of Mesa County, Colorado who went rogue and was convicted for breaching her office's own voting equipment in her quest to find non-existent evidence of election fraud in the 2020 election.

Last month, the DOJ left officials across the state of Michigan in a state of bewilderment.

Hello, and welcome back to another bleak edition of The Franchise! (How's that for an opening line?)

Hello, and welcome back to another bleak edition of The Franchise! (How’s...

Dennis Dahmer was 12 years old in January 1966 when Klansmen stormed his family home and set it on fire, murdering his father, Vernon.

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Yes, the redistricting battle rages on across the South, but, FINALLY, some positive news on this front.