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How one Wisconsin county helped expand early-voting hours and boost turnout

Alexander Shur

March 28, 2025 |

Votebeat Wisconsin |

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Response Location: United States, Washington County, Wisconsin

To encourage in-person absentee voting, one Wisconsin County offered up special funding to municipalities to offset administrative costs, allowing many to extend their early voting hours and bring on additional help. More than 13,000 county residents cast absentee ballots in person in the most recent election, which is almost triple the number cast by the same point in the 2023 voting cycle.

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The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump's Purge

Julian Lucas

March 14, 2025 |

The New Yorker |

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Response Location: United States

After President Donald Trump’s administration began removing key research and datasets from government websites, archivists, librarians, and organizations banded together to form the Data Rescue Project, which is coordinating efforts to preserve vital information. The movement has recruited volunteers from a subreddit forum called r/DataHoarder that’s frequented by hobbyists with IT knowledge, and so far the project has cataloged more than 400 publicly available backups of government data compiled by volunteers.

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Saving U.S. Climate and Environmental Data Before It Goes Away

Nicola Jones

March 11, 2025 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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Response Location: United States

The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, an international group of watchdog scientists, and a group of volunteers track and back up government data sets that have been altered or removed, including key tools that researchers and policymakers use to track which communities are most at risk from climate change and toxic hazards.

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Jail Voting Soars in Colorado After State Mandates Polling Places in County Lockups

Alex Burness

March 04, 2025 |

Bolts |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

After Colorado passed a state law requiring all jails to create in-person polling places for incarcerated voters, the number of ballots cast from county jails rose from 231 in 2022 to more than 2,300 in 2024.

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A sanctuary law aimed to 'Trump-proof' California on immigration. What has it accomplished?

Andrea Castillo

March 03, 2025 |

Los Angeles Times |

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Response Location: United States, California

A California law enacted in 2018 limits local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration officials, preventing local police from arresting someone solely for having a deportation order or keeping them in custody longer than necessary to allow time for immigration officers to arrive. The state’s share of national ICE arrests has fallen, as has the number of people transferred from state prison to ICE custody, but challenges to California’s law and “sanctuary” policies like it are mounting.

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Ethiopia's Utopian Experiment in Gender Equality

Peter Yeung

February 07, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Ethiopia, Awra Amba

The Awra Amba community is founded on broad values such as gender equality of labor, women’s rights, children’s rights, and caring for the elderly and vulnerable, and residents work together on 15 democratically elected committees to make key decisions. Research shows that the community has achieved higher life expectancy, literacy rates, and measures of gender equality than the country’s national averages.

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How farmworkers in Washington state got lawmakers' attention

Syris Valentine

February 04, 2025 |

Grist |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

Each year, farmworkers in Washington state gather for a people’s tribunal where they share their stories about the injustices they face on the job and advocate for policies to improve working conditions. In addition to supporters, the tribunal is attended by legislative staffers and sometimes elected representatives, and the tribunal’s findings have helped usher in new protections for workers, including guaranteed overtime pay and mandated cooling breaks in extreme heat.

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Effect of ‘curing' policies highlights the disparities that Pennsylvania mail voters face

Carter Walker

February 04, 2025 |

Votebeat Pennsylvania |

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Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania, 38 counties allow voters to “cure” absentee ballots delivered with errors, such as missing signatures and dates. In these counties, roughly 17% fewer voters had their ballots rejected in the most recent election compared to counties where voters are not able to cure mistakes.

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Demand for immigration legal services spikes at California colleges

Delilah Brumer, Mercy Sosa

February 03, 2025 |

CalMatters |

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Response Location: United States, California

In the University of California and California State University systems, undocumented students have access to Dream resource centers where they can get support with financial aid, mental health services, community-building, and legal aid for immigration cases. These services have seen demand skyrocket since the 2024 presidential election and subsequent executive orders around immigration.

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These Cities Are Welcoming Immigrants With Municipal ID Programs

Lucas Grindley, Marielle Argueza

January 21, 2025 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Municipal ID programs such as IDNYC provide identification for residents who aren't able to access official government IDs, such as those who are undocumented or unhoused. The municipally-issued IDs make it easier for these residents to access local services and benefits and interact with officials, including law enforcement.

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