Election Time

Articles and voter resources

Spooky Season is here, and that means people across the country have started early voting. In that spirit (no pun intended), I’m resharing some recent pieces that reflect on national and local electoral politics, as well as some voter resources.

I also just contributed this piece at the Center for Educator Wellness and Learning on how to interpret legislators’ education voting records.

National issues:

Former president Donald Trump has explicitly denied involvement with Project 2025, a detailed blueprint by the Heritage Foundation and other hyper-conservative groups (including Moms for Liberty, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Palmetto Promise Institute) to restructure the federal government (primarily by firing everyone who doesn’t pass their political tests).

But, as I get into in more detail in these pieces, Trump’s actual policy platform explicitly includes most of Project 2025’s most headline-grabbing ideas, like abolishing the Department of Education and greenlighting widespread …