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Democracy Docket

US website concerned with voting rights, elections, redistricting and democracy

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Nov 15, 2025
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What is Project 2025 and its main goals?

Project 2025 is a multi-part policy and personnel blueprint produced by the Heritage Foundation with contributions from more than 100 conservative groups and many former Trump aides; its core document...

Nov 18, 2025
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did the democrats ever block the release of the epstein files

Democrats did not have unilateral power to “block” the House from voting to force release of Jeffrey Epstein files; the push to bring the matter to the floor depended on procedural tools that require ...

Jan 14, 2026
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Can Stephen Miller be impeached

The short answer based on the reporting provided is: the materials do not establish that Stephen Miller is clearly subject to impeachment proceedings, and they do show vigorous political pressure for ...

Nov 30, 2025

Did president trump call for the death of democrats

President Trump posted and reposted comments calling six Democratic lawmakers “seditious” and saying their behavior was “punishable by DEATH!” and urged they be “ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL,” prompting ...

Dec 1, 2025

How does Democratic gerrymandering compare to Republican practices?

Both parties engage in mid‑decade and decennial mapmaking to gain advantage: Republicans have driven a larger share of the maps this decade and, according to the Brennan Center, gerrymandering likely ...

Nov 28, 2025

The Trump administration has a 95% win rate against these lower court rulings??? The other 5% are EO’s they knew would be overturned!!

Claims that the Trump administration enjoys a 95% win rate in lower courts are inconsistent with multiple public trackers and analyses: some outlets report loss rates in the 90% range in federal distr...

Jan 13, 2026

how many times has Trump acted unlawfully as president in this current term

There is no authoritative single count of how many times President Trump has “acted unlawfully” in his current term because unlawfulness is a legal determination made case-by-case by courts, and many ...

Nov 22, 2025

Are you part of project 2025

I am not part of Project 2025; I am an AI assistant and not an organization, campaign, or policy initiative — available sources describe Project 2025 as a Heritage Foundation–led presidential transiti...

Dec 17, 2025

Which conservative groups and think tanks are officially partnering with Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a Heritage Foundation–led initiative that the organization says is built with a coalition of “more than 100” conservative groups and policy outfits; Heritage is the anchor and public f...

Dec 13, 2025

Among the 50 U.S. states, which have the most biased gerrymandered maps?

Academic and media analyses repeatedly flag a handful of states as the most egregiously gerrymandered after the 2020–2025 redistricting cycle: Wisconsin, North Carolina, Texas, and several Midwestern ...

Dec 10, 2025

Which states have the most contested gerrymanders and which party benefited most in each?

Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Florida and several other states are the epicenters of high-profile, contested mid‑decade redistricting fights; Texas’s new congressional map alone is projected to net...

Dec 8, 2025

supreme court case on presidential power

The Supreme Court heard Trump v. Slaughter on Dec. 8, 2025, a case testing whether the president can fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission before a statutorily fixed term ends; conservative ju...

Nov 16, 2025

democrats pay protesters through nonprofits associated with democrat party

Claims that “Democrats pay protesters through nonprofits associated with the Democratic Party” appear frequently in political rhetoric, but the available sources do not show evidence that the Democrat...

Dec 21, 2025

What is the verified inventory (by filename or record ID) of photographs and audio files the DOJ removed or further redacted after the initial release?

The only individually verifiable record ID publicly reported as removed after the Justice Department’s initial Epstein-files release is “document 468,” a photograph the DOJ took down following the rel...

Dec 16, 2025

Has scotus block trump executive orders

The Supreme Court has both limited and at times temporarily upheld or stayed lower-court orders affecting President Trump’s executive actions: a June 2025 6–3 decision restricted lower courts’ power t...

Dec 8, 2025

Which US states have experienced the most mid-cycle redistricting in the past decade?

Mid‑decade redistricting has surged in 2025, driven by partisan drives in states such as Texas, California, Florida, Indiana and Missouri — a wave reporters call an “arms race” after Texas’ July 2025 ...

Jan 20, 2026

trump wants to cancel midterms

President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested — sometimes jokingly, sometimes not — that the United States “shouldn’t even have” the 2026 midterm elections, remarks reported across major outlets; th...

Jan 19, 2026

how many 2020 post‑election lawsuits were dismissed for lack of standing or timeliness?

The sources provided confirm that more than 60 post‑2020 election lawsuits were filed challenging the 2020 presidential result and that "many" of those suits were dismissed on procedural grounds such ...

Jan 16, 2026

Is Trump's actions legal

The legality of President Trump’s actions in his second term is not a single yes-or-no question: courts, agencies, and scholars are actively parsing different directives, and the record so far is mixe...

Jan 8, 2026

What laws has Donald Trump broken

Reporting shows numerous legal challenges, court rulings, and authoritative analyses accusing President Donald Trump of violating specific statutes and constitutional limits—most concretely the Impoun...