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David Daley

David Daley is the author of the new book "Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections" and the national bestseller "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count." He is the former editor-in-chief of Salon.

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A booth promoting ranked choice voting at Netroots Nation 2025

How to fire up 2026’s hottest House race

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Zohran Mamdani (D), Curtis Sliwa (R) and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (I) participate in the second New York City mayoral debate on Oct. 22, 2025. (HIROKO MASUIKE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

How New York could have avoided a nasty mayoral election

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Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

John Roberts is slowly dismantling America

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Democrats can’t win the gerrymander war

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott listens to President Donald Trump's address during a tour to an unfinished section of the border wall on June 30, 2021 in Pharr, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Can Texas GOP steal the midterms in advance? Yes, they can

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Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani (Photo illustration by Salon/Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images)

How ranked choice voting will shape the red-hot NYC mayoral race

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US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (L) walks with retired justice David Souter out of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception after the funeral service for Justice Antonin Scalia on February 20, 2016 (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

“No more Souters”

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Samuel Alito and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Alito can’t save Trump from sentencing. He just made the Supreme Court’s credibility issue worse

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Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr. received the Henry J. Friendly Medal at The American Law Institute's 2023 Annual Dinner at the National Building Museum on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

John Roberts is worried about all the wrong things

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) holds the gavel while checking the podium during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

How Republicans held the House: It’s the gerrymander, stupid

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Young man holding an I Voted Sticker up (Getty Images/grandriver)

Portland’s ranked choice voting experiment upends election

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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

How John Roberts reshaped the law — and gutted the Voting Rights Act

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) holds the gavel onstage ahead of the start of the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

GOP plans to win this election — in court, if not at the ballot box

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

There’s a solution to Democrats’ RFK Jr. problem: Ranked-choice voting

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John Roberts | Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How John Roberts may slow-walk American democracy right off the cliff

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer celebrates during an election night watch party at MotorCity Casino Hotel on November 09, 2022 in Detroit, Michigan. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Voters won in Michigan this year — and fair maps made the difference

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Demonstrators participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963. (Library of Congress/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

Jim Crow lives again: Florida and Mississippi turn back the clock on voting rights

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Cardboard cutouts of the conservative Supreme Court justices were propped up by pro-choice activists in front of the Supreme Court before the Dobbs v Jackson Womens Health Organization decision overturning Roe v Wade was handed down at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, June 24, 2022. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Our Fourth of July nightmare: A republic in the tightening grip of minority rule

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People pay tribute and mourn at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 31, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Minority rules, children die: Our broken political system has lethal consequences

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Dinesh D'Souza; Donald Trump (Getty/Justin Sullivan/Saul Loeb)

Dinesh D’Souza’s new film drives the Big Lie: Here’s the truth about “ballot harvesting”

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Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will the Independent State Legislature doctrine literally mean the end of democracy?

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Supporters of President Donald Trump demonstrate at a ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in front of the State Capitol on November 7, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Will Arizona’s relentless Republican gerrymander decide the 2024 presidential election?

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John Roberts | Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Texas two-step: Ending abortion rights and voting rights are part of the right’s long-term plan

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US Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, John Roberts and Clarence Thomas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Beware the “Independent State Legislatures doctrine” — it could checkmate democracy

Gaby Goldstein, David Daley
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