meet david daley
David Daley is the author of the national bestseller Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, which has been credited for kickstarting the national drive to end gerrymandering.
His second book, Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy was praised by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for "restoring your hope that in America, the people still have the power."
His journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times and the Washington Post, among other publications. He has taught journalism and political science as a visiting fellow at Wesleyan University, Boston College, Smith College and the University of Georgia.
He is the former editor in chief of Salon.com and a senior fellow at FairVote.
media apperances
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The New Yorker
The Secret Files of the Master of Modern Republican Gerrymandering
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
Thomas Hofeller… known as the master of the modern gerrymander, trained other G.O.P. operatives and legislators nationwide to secure their computer networks, guard access to their maps, and never send e-mails that they didn’t want to see published by the news media.
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Rolling Stone
Red America Is Becoming a ‘Democracy Desert.’ Coronavirus Threatens to Make It Worse
APRIL 3, 2020
It’s an urgent moment. But the problems within our system have also been exacerbated by a patchwork of state-by-state election laws that create wildly disparate access to the ballot box and to voter registration…
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Salon
Will Arizona's relentless Republican gerrymander decide the 2024 presidential election?
DECEMBER 4, 2021
The intersection of South Gilbert and East Warner roads in Gilbert, Arizona, looks like many other places in suburban America… You'd never guess that this could-be-anywhere crossing is not just crucial to the redistricting wars that will remap America's political landscape.
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CNN Opinion
Asheville's Woes Are The Story of America
NOVEMBER 24, 2019
If you want to understand how American politics has become more polarized and extreme over the last decade, look no farther than Asheville, North Carolina – now split between two of the most gerrymandered districts in the country.
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The New York Times
Voters Had Their Say. Partisans Ignored Them.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Democracy has been tested this year by divisive voting and election administration laws in states like Georgia and Texas. But… voters took it upon themselves via ballot initiatives to put independent commissions in place for the 2021 redistricting cycle.
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NEW YORK MAGAZINE
The House The GOP Built
APRIL 14, 2016
In July 2009 Chris Jankowski sat down at his Richmond home with the morning New York Times. It had been eight months since Barack Obama defeated John McCain… even the brightest conservative thinkers thought the 2008 results signaled danger for the GOP.
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The Boston Globe
It's The PowerPoint That Redefined American Politics
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020
Ten years ago… Ed Gillespie and his team at the Republican State Legislative Committee quietly hopscotched the nation and sold top conservative donors a different and audacious vision: the gerrymander.
NPR FRESH AIR: Understanding Congressional Gerrymandering: 'It's Moneyball Applied To Politics'
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CNN: How the GOP changed the shaped of America
