Trump and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani meet cordially at Gracie Mansion while publicly using scorched-earth rhetoric. The Independent Voter Podcast explores how closed primary systems manufacture ideological extremes and announces a federal lawsuit challenging New York's closed primaries.
California’s 22nd Congressional District challenges conventional wisdom about Latino voters, party loyalty, and the political assumptions that shape how campaigns are fought.
From MAGA’s takeover of the GOP to the rise of democratic socialists, the author argues that America’s political upheaval is a symptom of an election system that rewards party capture, discourages independent competition, and leaves voters with too few choices.
From the election reform battles of 2024 to the campaigns of 2026, a new documentary follows the independent voters who keep fighting to change American politics—even when the odds are stacked against them.
The Voter Protection Project, which has backed only Democrats since 2019, joins a coalition of democracy groups supporting independent congressional candidate Bill Hill. This year, Alaska’s top-four election system is also on the ballot, as it faces another attempt to repeal it.
Three leaked recordings in two weeks have put a spotlight on the Nebraska Senate race and on the research operations that dig up this kind of material.
California's top-two primary brings DSA-backed Democrats face-to-face with the party's moderate wing before the entire electorate. Steve Peace, who authored the law, discusses whether his system is working as designed.
A closed Republican primary, a weak Democratic Party, and a wide gap between how Idahoans register and how they identify have produced an unusually deep bench of independents.
Washington Post reporter Dan Lamothe pulls back the curtain on a Pentagon defined by press restrictions, unexplained leadership shakeups, internal polygraphs, military influencers, and growing questions about transparency and credibility.
From open primaries and multi-member districts to campaign finance reform and a culture that encourages more people to run, there are ways to bring competition back to elections where voters too often have only one choice.
Every week, Unorganized Territory is talking to voters, with a special focus on the issues, emotions, perceptions and personal challenges shaping their views of the candidates in Maine’s U.S. Senate race, a crucial contest in the battle for control of Congress.
