A new analysis by Reveal shows the push to target election activity in state legislatures nationwide has only intensified in the four months since the 2022 midterm elections.

Ese Olumhense
Reporter
Ese Olumhense (she/her) was a reporter for Reveal, covering democracy and gender rights. Before that, she was a senior editor/reporter for politics and investigations at City Limits, a nonprofit investigative organization that covers New York City. Olumhense previously worked for Spotlight PA and THE CITY, two other nonprofit journalism outlets, and the Chicago Tribune. As part of a team at THE CITY, Olumhense won the Online News Association’s 2021 Knight Award for Public Service for Missing Them, a collaborative project to remember every New Yorker killed by COVID-19. For the project, she investigated the potential link between the poor air quality in neighborhoods near freeways and COVID-19 death tolls. Olumhense is also an adjunct faculty member at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, working with investigative reporting fellows there.
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