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DeSantis’ Election Police Have Largely Flopped in Florida Voter Prosecutions. A New Law Aims to Change That.
A new Florida law gives Gov. Ron DeSantis’ prosecutors power to pursue more election-related cases – a move explicitly designed to circumvent recent judicial scrutiny of the state’s highly politicized voter prosecutions. The law comes after DeSantis’ new election prosecution team’s first round of cases largely flopped,...
Texas Republicans Look to Usurp Power of Local Prosecutors Who Don’t Pursue Their Voter Fraud Agenda
Under new legislation proposed in Texas, the state’s Republican attorney general could send prosecutors from neighboring counties to investigate suspected cases of voter fraud in the state’s large Democratic counties. The bill is one of at least nine filed in Texas since the November midterm elections that would...
New York Passes Law to Protect Amazon Warehouse Workers
New York has become the second state to regulate warehouse work quotas in an effort to improve working conditions at Amazon facilities. Gov. Kathy Hochul last month signed the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which says warehouse workers can’t be forced to hit work quotas that would prevent them from taking meal and rest breaks and using the bathroom. As Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting reported in 2019, Amazon workers felt such pressure to achieve productivity targets and escape discipline that some delayed bathroom trips and even developed urinary tract infections. The new law also says employers must provide written notice of quotas and provide productivity data to workers who request it. It’s the latest example of government officials taking action after years of mounting injuries from Amazon’s relentless drive for speed.
How Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers Can Claim to Be Medical Clinics and Get Away With It
Patricia Henderson stood in the parking lot next to the Florida Women’s Center in Jacksonville, wearing a white lab coat and greeting patients as they emerged from their cars. Their abortion appointments, she told them, were in the flat-roofed building across the road. Once inside, Henderson handed them three...
These Sheriffs Say They’re More Powerful Than the President. Now, They’re Targeting Elections.
This fall, weeks after members of the Arizona far-right group known as the Yavapai County Preparedness Team announced they were forming a watch group to guard ballot drop boxes in shifts, they welcomed a guest to their regular biweekly meeting. Wearing a brilliant purple collared shirt and a black cowboy...
Ballot Collection Rules Have Changed in Many Places. Here’s How to Make Sure Your Vote Counts.
In the last two years, former President Donald Trump has led a movement to crack down on what’s known as ballot collection. This is when another person or group helps a voter deliver their absentee ballot. Trump and others, such as those behind the film “2000 Mules,” falsely claim it’s behind widespread voter fraud.
Big Lie Proponents Are Creating Harsh Criminal Penalties for Elections Activity
Since the 2020 election, lawmakers in all but eight states have attempted to pass laws that would create new election investigation agencies, establish criminal penalties for election offenses or further empower law enforcement officials to investigate such crimes, according to an analysis by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
How Are Voter Suppression Tactics Affecting You and Your Community? 
Since the 2020 general election, there has been a proliferation of new election laws and restrictions on voting. Reveal reporters would like to know how this is affecting you and the people around you. We won’t share any information you provide without speaking to you first and getting your approval.
Search for the Crime Bills That Target Voting and Elections in Your State
Since the 2020 general election, state lawmakers across the country have introduced legislation that would dramatically criminalize voting activity. Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has collected and analyzed those bills into this first-of-its-kind database. Reveal used records from LegiScan, which catalogs virtually every bill introduced by state-level lawmakers...
Stand Your Ground Laws Are Proliferating. And More People Are Dying.
Outside the National Rifle Association annual meeting in May, protesters demanded sweeping reforms to the type of lax gun laws that contributed to the slaughter of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, earlier that week. But inside the Houston convention center, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem bragged about...
We Forced the Government to Share Corporate Diversity Data. It’s Giving Companies an Out Instead.
The federal government is inviting thousands of companies to fight the public release of their diversity numbers, even after a judge ruled that the workplace demographics reports shouldn’t be kept secret. For years, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has battled in court to make public the diversity...
The US Has Approved Only 123 Afghan Humanitarian Parole Applications in the Last Year
More than a year since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the U.S. government has approved less than 2% of Afghan applications it processed for a humanitarian parole program. Since July 2021, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has collected nearly $20 million from 66,000 applications filed through something called a...
Police Often Miss Red Flags in Domestic Abuse Cases, and the Consequences Are Deadly
One day after Mariah Carpenter was gunned down by her ex-boyfriend, her mother met local police at a storage unit in Columbus, Ohio, belonging to the killer. They rolled up the door and made a shocking discovery: There, among dozens of pairs of new Air Jordan sneakers, were at least 20 guns, including assault rifles.
Group Behind ‘2000 Mules’ Has Deep Ties to Ken Paxton
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is pretty familiar with Catherine Engelbrecht. He’s been a guest on her podcast, chatting about their shared passion: rooting out voter fraud. They both have gone to great lengths to try to support former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
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