Law Day Irony: Maryland’s Top Lawyer Has Failed the Law
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews At 3:07 p.m. today, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown posted a tribute to the rule of...
Voting Rights
High Court’s VRA Ruling Exposes Maryland’s Racial Gerrymander — and Democrats’ Hubris
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A landmark Supreme Court ruling handed down Wednesday could reshape Maryland's political...
Maryland House Moves to Open Primaries to Unaffiliated Voters
By MDBayNews Staff The Maryland House of Delegates has approved legislation that would allow unaffiliated voters to...
Ranked-Choice Voting: Democracy’s “Upgrade” That No One Asked For
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County Councilmember Evan Glass recently praised ranked-choice voting (RCV) as a...
Maryland Voting Rights Act Push Raises Questions About Scope, Cost, and Local Control
By MDBayNews Staff ANNAPOLIS — A coalition of voting rights groups gathered in Annapolis this week urging swift passage...
Senate Republicans File Voter ID Bill, Putting Election Integrity Back on the Table
By MDBayNews Staff Annapolis — Maryland Senate Republicans have formally filed new legislation that would require voters...
Secure the Vote Act 2026 Rally Set for Annapolis
By MDBayNews Staff ANNAPOLIS — A coalition of election integrity advocates and conservative lawmakers is set to rally in...
Maryland GOP Slams ‘1-800-CONVICT’ Voting Bill as Conflict of Interest
By MDBayNews Staff A newly introduced bill in the Maryland General Assembly aimed at expanding voting access for...
Maryland’s Appointment-Only System Leaves Voters on the Sidelines
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When vacancies open up in the Maryland General Assembly, voters might reasonably expect a...
Annapolis Accelerates Left as Power Shifts Raise Red Flags for Moderates and Republicans
By Michael Phillips | Maryland Bay News Annapolis is entering a period of rapid political change, and for many moderates...
The Fair Representation Act Could Reshape Maryland Elections — and Hand Republicans Seats Democrats Have Locked Away for Years
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews – Annapolis Watch A national election-reform proposal backed for years by Rep. Jamie...
Maryland’s ‘They Still Got to Vote’ Doctrine: Bureaucratic Gaslighting at Its Finest
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews At the October 23, 2025, meeting of the Maryland State Board of Elections, what should have...
Maryland’s Election Data Standoff: Privacy, Politics, or Plain Stonewalling?
The U.S. Department of Justice calls it an “election integrity review.”Maryland calls it “federal...
Takoma Park: Maryland’s Hornets’ Nest of Collectivism
When most people think of radical leftist enclaves, they think of Portland, Seattle, or San Francisco. But you don’t need...
Maryland’s Bloated Voter Rolls Finally Face Federal Scrutiny
When the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division sent a July 14, 2025, letter to Maryland’s top election...
The Postcard From L.A.: How “Field Team 6” Turns Hollywood Money and a Super PAC Loophole Into Voter Registration Machinery
When a Virginia voter opened the mailbox to find a glossy postcard postmarked Los Angeles urging them—via a QR code—to...
Maryland’s Independent Voters Are Shut Out—And Paying the Price
Roughly 22% of Marylanders—nearly one million people—don’t affiliate with either major political party. That number...
Voter ID: Maryland’s Next Election Battle
President Trump has announced he will sign an executive order requiring voter ID for every single vote cast in America....
Rise of the Unaffiliated Voter: Maryland Joins a National Rebellion Against the Two-Party System
By Michael Phillips Maryland’s voter rolls tell a story politicians can’t afford to ignore. Since January 2025,...
Spaghetti Districts and Stolen Representation: How Gerrymandering Broke Our Republic
By Michael Phillips “If you can’t draw it with a ruler, it’s probably rigged.” That’s the unofficial motto voters...
Maryland’s Dirty Voter Rolls: Republicans Sound the Alarm as Feds Join Scrutiny
By Michael Phillips In a state where Democrats have long held political dominance, Maryland’s elections officials are...
Democracy by Design? More Like Districts by Design: Andy Ellis Says Maryland Voters Are Being Played
By Michael Phillips Let’s play pretend for a second. Imagine you live in a state where your vote doesn’t really...
Maryland Sued for Keeping Elections as Exclusive as a Georgetown Dinner Party
ANNAPOLIS, MD — In what can only be described as a moment of shocking common sense, a legal challenge has been filed...