“We knew what to do. We knew how to survive,” says Gordon Brace Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first joined PEOPLE in 2016. Courtesy of Gordon Brace In late ...

July 1, 2026 • There's a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day. Republicans are pushing courts to reinterpret that longstanding protection for ...