Benjamin Swasey
Ben Swasey is a senior editor on the Washington desk who leads NPR's coverage of voting and election administration.
Swasey co-edited a 2023 investigation detailing how conservative pressure drove states to abandon a tool that helps catch voter fraud. That investigation was a finalist for the Peabody Award and the Toner Prize for Excellence in National Political Reporting.
In 2025, he co-edited reporting on a controversial Trump administration data system to check U.S. citizenship that was also a Toner prize finalist.
He edited campaign stories for the 2020, 2022 and 2024 election cycles as well.
Originally from Massachusetts, Swasey was previously a political editor and digital manager at WBUR in Boston. At WBUR he was an editor on teams that won two national RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards and an Online Journalism Award.
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New reporting alleging Democratic efforts to prop up a spoiler candidate has roiled Alaska's all-important U.S. Senate race. -
Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., is co-leading an effort to get colleagues to pledge they'll accept this fall's election results and oppose any effort to block the seating of fellow members next year. -
The phone number — 1-800-232-0233 — follows the launch earlier this week of a federal website to order the tests. -
The California Republican and Trump ally will take the helm of the Trump Media & Technology Group next month, giving up his seat in the middle of his 10th term. -
His spokesperson says Clinton, who was admitted to a California hospital to receive treatment for a "non-Covid-related infection," will remain there overnight to get IV antibiotics.
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The legislation now heads to Gov. Greg Abbott, who plans to sign it. Once he does, Texas will become the latest GOP-run state to enact new voting restrictions. -
The vote on the Republican-led election legislation follows historic efforts by Democrats to block it. -
While several states, including Texas and Georgia, have passed new restrictive voting laws, others, like Nevada and Vermont, have increased voters' ballot access.
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Trumka, the leader of the AFL-CIO and a close ally of Democratic Party officials, has died. He was 72. -
But the president cautioned that the bipartisan deal wouldn't be enacted without a separate proposal moving along with just Democratic support.
