Extreme new laws built on Trump’s Big Lie crack down on a phantom problem: widespread voter fraud.
Melissa Lewis
Data Reporter
Melissa Lewis is a data reporter for Reveal. Prior to joining Reveal, she was a data editor at The Oregonian, a data engineer at Simple and a data analyst at Periscopic. She is an organizer for the Portland chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. Lewis is based in Oregon.
Posted inVoting
Search for the Crime Bills That Target Voting and Elections in Your State
Reveal created a first-of-its-kind database to track bills that target election crimes in state legislatures across the country.
Posted inAccountability
All the President’s Pardons
The presidential pardon system is backlogged and broken.
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Posted inHousing
Police Know Arrests Won’t Fix Homelessness. They Keep Making Them Anyway.
As unhoused people increasingly live in residential neighborhoods, their new neighbors have turned to one place for help in particular: the police.
Posted inReproductive Rights
Crossing the Line: The Fight Over Roe
Florida is an unexpected safe haven for abortion, but it also has a history of anti-abortion extremism – and harassment at clinics is escalating.
Posted inHousing
Handcuffed and Unhoused
A hidden side of homelessness: Unhoused people often get entangled in a criminal justice cycle that leads back to the streets – or worse.
Posted inHousing
Handcuffed and Unhoused
As homelessness rises, unhoused people often get entangled in a criminal justice cycle that leads back to the streets – or worse.
Posted inMississippi Goddam
Mississippi Goddam Chapter 2: The Aftermath
On the morning of Billey Joe Johnson’s death, crime scene tape separates the Johnsons from their son’s body. Their shaky faith in the criminal justice system buckles as authorities fail to follow up on inconsistencies in the official story.
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice
All the president’s pardons
Under President Donald Trump, the pardon system has completely broken down.
Posted inImmigration, The Disappeared
US detained migrant children for far longer than previously known
Newly obtained data show that the U.S. government has detained more than 25,000 migrant children for longer than 100 days over the past six years.