White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt came to the defense of President Donald Trump over his take on the 2026 midterm elections.

"When democracy is treated as optional, it is Black communities who pay the price first and hardest,” said Nadine Smith of Color Of Change.

The Supreme Court could reshape U.S. elections for years to come as it hears a number of cases with implications for the country’s political landscape. In perhaps the most high-stakes example, the country is waiting to see whether the justices weaken a section of the Voting Rights Act.

A group of U.S. senators is voicing concern over U.S. Postal Service processing changes and what those could mean for voting with mail ballots.

Brazilians will go to the polls on October 4 to elect a new president, the National Congress, and state governors and legislators. The 79-year-old incumbent president, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, is seeking an unprecedented fourth term.

Mississippi appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. “The question presented,” the state’s petition said, is whether federal laws “preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election officials after that day.”

New Hampshire's Democracy Defense Project lost a big-name co-chairman when former U.S. Sen. John E. Sununu decided to re-enter the political arena as a candidate for his former seat.