Five years after George Floyd, the mayor and his allies on city council claim credit for vast improvements, but critics keep ...

Police veteran Michelle Woodfork won the sheriff’s race, at a time when federal consent decrees barring ICE collaboration and ...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has ramped up sweeps of homeless encampments in his first term. In his reelection bid, he faces a ...

Guy Oron is a Seattle-based writer. He is a staff reporter for Real Change.

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a ...

Camille Squires is a story editor at Bolts with experience covering city-level government and politics. Her reporting has appeared in Quartz, NewYork Magazine, City Monitor, and Mother Jones.

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else ...

November is fast approaching, and while a handful of races are hogging the spotlight, there are thousands of local races all around the country that will shape public policy—from deciding who will ...

Dan Hinkel is a senior reporter at Injustice Watch, where he reports on courts and the legal system. He joined Injustice Watch in 2023 after two decades covering criminal justice and other issues for ...

This story is a collaboration between Bolts and Injustice Watch, a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization examining issues of equity and justice in the court system. Renwick Wells and Mickey ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has been scrapping with the Trump administration over immigration enforcement all year, a battle replete with threatening letters, lawsuits, congressional testimony, and ...