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Mike Latner Director of Research on Democratic Reform Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School Political Science Dept @CalPoly Engineering fair electoral systems. And tacos. E pluribus unum 🇺🇸

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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“The Supreme Court has clarified a vision of US politics in which partisan affiliation serves as an antiseptic to the politics of race. But let’s be clear, it is a vision in which the rights of all voters are subordinate to supposedly ‘race-neutral’ claims of partisan advantage.”
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Controlling For Party Affiliation open.substack.com/pub/mikelatn...
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Controlling For Party Affiliation
How the new Callais factors solve the puzzle of disentangling race and politics
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Budapest 2026: Consolidation Through a Hyper-Responsive Electoral System open.substack.com/pub/mikelatn...
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Budapest 2026: Consolidation Through a Hyper-Responsive Electoral System
How Budapest’s historic neighborhoods voted to end sixteen years of Orbán. A precinct-level portrait of history, party organization, and democratic revival.
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
My latest @houstoninstitute.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/mikelatn...
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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@Oscar Pocasangre and I have an early holiday treat, a primer on how pathways to minority representation are shaped by different electoral systems at @The Houston Institute https://open.substack.com...
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Callais arguments didn’t go well, as expected. Listening to the solicitor and LA counsel was like watching the dog poop throwing scene from Parks and Rec.
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Saturday really came through, nice work Saturday! You are my favorite.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
for Oakland residents: what’s being done in your county
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Had a great chat @scholars.org on the gerrymandering arms race now underway, how we got here, and what we can do to fix this dysfunctional system.
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Why suppress votes when you can just steal seats?
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 20/08/2025
A growing number of GOP-led states are restricting student voting access, from banning campus polling places to making it harder to prove residency. Earlier this yar, Indiana banned student IDs for voting. boltsmag.org/indiana-bann...
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Indiana Republicans Are Banning Student IDs for Voting - Bolts
The new restriction, paired with Indiana’s stringent voter ID rules, would make it much harder for many young people to vote in a state that already ranks near-last in turnout.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Updated blog post here If we replicate using voter validated weights, Harris still wins among nonvoters If we assume ppl unmatched to voter file are nonvoters and use commonweight, Trump wins nonvoters data4democracy.substack.com/p/did-non-vo...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 14/08/2025
The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Really important questions raised by @justinlevitt.bsky.social Voters need a clear message about what they are authorizing. Then buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Heavily armed used car salesmen ready to kill anyone who makes them feel uncomfortable. #FucktheRedeemers
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
FL Court trouncing both the VRA and their own voters who supported a fair maps initiative in 2010, which worked in that redistricting cycle.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
4 U.S. citizen children, with their mother, held in a detention facility for 2 WEEKS. Denied access to lawyers and even communication with family. Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
23 years ago, a groundswell of outrage from Republicans, including a GOP president, led Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi to resign after praising a segregationist on his birthday. Today, a Republican calls a colleague a "Muslim terrorist"—and every Republican silent.
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Editor’s Note | Blatant Racism Used to Have Consequences
Allowing racism to fester while only condemning the most obvious examples has brought us to where we are now, Ashton Pittman writes.
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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The retaliatory firing today of over 100 EPA employees who stood up for scientific integrity — it’s shocking. But it’s also July 3. So this won’t even get on people’s radar.
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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today I am on the hunt for ways to help. Message me if you have suggestions! The family wants to stay together (mother, father, baby). Their stuff is still in the apartment. They’d like to negotiate w/ the landlord to stay if possible. They need housing & a lawyer. This is in Jamaica, Queens (NYC).
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It is increasingly clear that we are at the end of an era, and those committed to political equality and democracy need to build a shared vision of electoral system reform for the next era. We are on borrowed time.
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Thanks to the folks @lseusablog.bsky.social for having me on to chat about democracy, my favorite subject! blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"Donald Trump’s appointees at the Department of Justice have removed all of the senior civil servants working as managers in the department’s voting section and directed attorneys to dismiss all active cases..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump’s justice department appointees remove leadership of voting unit
Section is responsible for enforcing laws designed to prevent voter discrimination, raised alarm about voting rights enforcement
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Bryan Anderson @bryanranderson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I'll be totally honest. At 3am on Saturday, my heart sank as I combed through my spreadsheet and discovered wrongly listed "never residents." I've barely slept since and didn't think my reporting would make any difference. At least for now, it has. #ncpol andersonalerts.substack.com/p/ncsbe-give...
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Wrongly labeled 'never residents' must have votes counted, state elections officials conclude
Citing reporting from Anderson Alerts in partnership with The Assembly and Popular Information, several voters wrongly labeled as "never residents" will have their ballots counted.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Bookmarking this valuable tracker on student visa revocations, from @insidehighered.com As of right now, IHE database shows that more than 1,000 international students & recent graduates have had their legal status changed by State Dept. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
to all who celebrate...
description from Huntington library:

"A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave."

https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Road to the VRA: 60 years ago today, after a day-long meeting, Democratic and GOP Senate leaders announce that they have reached an agreement with the Johnson administration on expanding the scope of the proposed Voting Rights Act.
Excerpt of article in the April 3, 1965 edition of the New York Times entitled, “Wider Plan Set for Voting Rights”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/03/2025
"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say
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Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The effort to truncate legislatively enacted programs and to purge their employees, at the utterly misinformed and erroneous judgment of Elon Musk, who heads a department that is not really a department in the legal sense, is a manifestation of what Balkin has rightly called "constitutional rot."
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Wow
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Threatening to use the criminal sanction of the state against an elected opposition figure for making statements well within the ordinary scope of political discourse. This is a deeply disturbing letter.
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is called party building mailchi.mp/boltsmag/new...
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How Chicago’s immigrant rights groups plan to hold the line on sanctuary policies
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A huge success by all measures! Thank you to everyone who attended the Guinier Project’s Research Roundtable, especially the research team that put together 50k+ words in a few months. Stay tuned, this team is doing great work!
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Making new friends underwater, thank you Manolo and Scuba Dogs PR! #scuba #spsa2025
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I should have mentally prepared for the fact that if you have a conference in PR you are going to see political scientists in swim suits.
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David Karol @davidkarol.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The impeachment vote in Korea was a secret ballot. I think that if the US Senate voted that way, Trump would have been convicted after January 6.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Thread, and paper. During crunches, social service cut more than cops. During booms, cops get more than restored, social services do not. A constant bipartisan prioritization of policing over all else. Despite clear evidence—this is me, not paper—that that is bad policy for our marginal dollars.
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Tsunami warning:
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In light of the other constitutional crises bound to erupt, @stephenwolf.bsky.social does a nice job illustrating that we still need to fix this corruption of federalism
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
No net change = errors will randomly cancel out change
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Happy to share a new collaborative paper on the conceptual and empirical distinction between PoC solidarity and PoC identity, with #SethGoldman, #YuenHuo, #TatisheNteta, and #LindaTropp. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans
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Mike on the Mic @mlatner.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If only there were some way to depoliticize the creation of district boundaries. Then again GOP looking to get about 21% of CA House seats while Trump got 38% of statewide vote, not from gerrymandering but from the seat bonus the largest party gets under our restrictive electoral system.
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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Great new analysis of the education realignment shows individual & geographic change. Because cultural industries are dominated by the educated & the educated spend a lot more on reading & entertainment, institutions, culture, & audiences move left www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Column | The educational divide driving American politics to the right
It’s not “the economy, stupid;” it’s the noncollege voter. This week, we look at how Trump has solidified the educational divide that defines his era.
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