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Project 2025 is a Heritage Foundation–led blueprint that proposed dozens of executive actions; many of those proposals have either been translated into formal executive orders (EOs) by the Trump admin...
, do not require voters to present a government ID at the polling place; instead those jurisdictions verify voter eligibility through alternative methods such as signature comparison, sworn affidavits...
Joe Biden signed 162 executive orders over his presidency through January 20, 2025, according to multiple compilations including the American Presidency Project and aggregated trackers; federal-regist...
Major national trackers (Ballotpedia, NCSL, Movement Advancement Project, Vote.org, VoteRiders and news compendia such as The Hill and local outlets) describe roughly a dozen states where voters can c...
Many states already expanded Medicaid under the ACA; 41 states (plus DC) had expanded by 2025 and individual state actions continue (KFF, NCSL reporting) . Major federal law changes in 2025 (the “One ...
As of the 2024 redistricting cycle, a clear but evolving subset of states use independent or citizen-led redistricting commissions for congressional and/or state legislative maps; multiple sources ide...
The Trump administration’s 2025 domestic agenda has focused intensely on deregulation, energy expansion, immigration enforcement, and implementing Project 2025 priorities—issuing hundreds of executive...
The supplied reporting establishes national party control of state legislatures going into — held the majority in far more chambers than (Republicans 57 chambers; Democrats 39 chambers) and, by multi-...
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 ...
Multiple 2025–2026 special elections have direct implications for control of both state legislatures and the U.S. House. In 2025 state legislative special elections numbered roughly 95 across 23 state...
California’s legislature in 2025 shows a in both chambers—60 Democrats to 20 Republicans in the Assembly and 30 Democrats to 10 Republicans in the Senate—which places California among the most strongl...
states plus the (and sources often add ) currently have laws or DMV policies that allow undocumented immigrants to obtain state driver’s licenses or limited-purpose driving cards, according to multipl...
require a government‑style photo document to cast a regular in‑person ballot and force voters who lack that ID into a separate provisional process that must be “cured” after Election Day for the vote ...
States that otherwise require usually build in narrow, state‑specific safety valves— (sworn statements), vouching by another voter or poll worker, and provisional ballots—that let an otherwise eligibl...
States described as “no ID required” still use formal processes — affidavits, ballot declarations or provisional ballots — to confirm a voter’s identity when documentation is missing at the polls; tho...
Two high‑profile Senate vacancies in 2025 — Ohio’s seat vacated by J.D. Vance and Florida’s seat vacated by Marco Rubio — were temporarily filled by Republican gubernatorial appointees, preserving the...
A set of U.S. states are commonly described as having “strict” voter ID regimes—meaning voters who cannot present acceptable identification at the polling place are required to cast a provisional ball...
The Constitution’s Article I, Section 6, Clause 1 — commonly called the Speech or Debate Clause — is the source of the special arrest and testimonial immunities enjoyed by Senators and Representatives...
Official, traceable reporting does not provide a single, authoritative list of states that enacted new voter ID laws specifically "since the 2024 election"; most public trackers compiled through 2024 ...
A precise, up-to-date list of U.S. states that currently have no Republican members in the U.S. House of Representatives cannot be compiled from the documents provided: the sources include national-le...