The 2020 elections revealed significant changes to the American electorate. But the biggest change wasn’t who voters supported–it was how they cast their ballots. Convenience voting, which includes early in-person, mail-in, and absentee voting, became more popular than ever. In fact, 72 percent of voters used one of those voting methods. MIT Election Data Science…

Daron R. Shaw is Distinguished Teaching Professor and Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Chair of State Politics at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Shaw specializes in American Government, Campaigns and Elections, Political Parties, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, and Applied Survey Research. He is the author of The Race to 270: The Electoral College and…

It’s been called the laptop from hell. Three years later, the laptop Hunter Biden dropped off at a computer repair shop in April 2019 is still burning.  The New York Times recently ran a story confirming the laptop and the cache of files and emails on it are legitimate.  Critics say the NYT piece is…

According to a new Washington Post report, Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, urged then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. 29 text messages between Meadows and Ginni Thomas are part of correspondence Meadows turned over to the Jan. 6 Select Committee. “The…

A New York Times article has confirmed the existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop. The Times also reported that Biden in recent months told an associate he paid federal taxes of more than $1 million in connection with the tax liability that is at least one part of the investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for…

A Texas man has been convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun. The guilty verdict is a milestone victory for federal prosecutors in the first trial among hundreds of cases arising from last year’s riot. Guy Reffitt, a then-supporter of President Donald Trump when he went to the Capitol on January 6,…

Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer, remains in the white hot spotlight of the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riots. His future is a real question mark. Many are now wondering, is it in the end Giuliani who will turn on Trump and potentially be Trump’s undoing reputationally? At one time, Rudy Giuliani was an…

According to a new court filing, the January 6th Select Committee believes former President Donald Trump and his allies may have committed crimes while attempting to overturn the 2020 election results. The bipartisan panel said it has evidence suggesting Trump broke three laws: obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy and fraud. “The Select Committee also…

Struggling under crippling economic sanctions and currency collapse, Russia is financially fleeing to a familiar safe haven: gold. And with the growing prevalence of cryptocurrencies, experts expect Vladimir Putin will also turn to the less familiar, non-tangible asset. The gold standard After a 2-year pandemic pause, Russia’s central bank announced this week it is restarting…

The heavyweight gubernatorial matchup of Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is now set in stone for November following Texas’ primary elections. Both Gov. Abbott and O’Rourke won their respective primaries. According to the results on Texas’s elections website, Abbott secured the Republican nomination with over 66% of the vote.…