Benjamin Swasey
Ben Swasey is an editor on the Washington Desk who mostly covers politics and voting.
A Massachusetts native, Swasey was previously a political editor and digital manager at WBUR in Boston.
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To see the extent to which the Republican political calendar and Donald Trump's legal calendar are intertwined, it's helpful to see them laid out together. -
The battlegrounds of Michigan and Nevada are among the states where voters this fall are set to decide ballot measures relating to the elections process.
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Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler was narrowly edged out of a spot in November's general election by Joe Kent, a Trump-backed opponent.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has released a new TV ad about John Gibbs, who's seeking to oust Michigan Republican Rep. Peter Meijer. Meijer voted for Trump's impeachment.
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Jim Marchant becomes the latest election-denying GOP candidate to take a step closer to running elections in their state — a trend that has alarmed experts on democracy.
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Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger famously refused then-President Donald Trump's entreaties to "find" enough votes to overturn his loss in Georgia.
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Trumka, the leader of the AFL-CIO and a close ally of Democratic Party officials, has died. He was 72.
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But the president cautioned that the bipartisan deal wouldn't be enacted without a separate proposal moving along with just Democratic support.
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The West Virginia Democrat, who holds a crucial centrist position in the divided Senate, has offered a new series of voting and election provisions he said he'd support.
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A Democratic-led committee will probe efforts by the Trump-era U.S. Department of Justice to seize metadata from devices belonging to members of Congress, journalists and the then-White House counsel.
