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Voting Rights
Southern Lawmakers Devise Discriminatory Measures That Undermine Disabled Voters
Advocates are challenging efforts to implement voting policies that make it harder for disabled people to cast a ballot.
Local Governments Are Blocking Ballot Initiatives at the Behest of Corporations
We must see the government-corporate alliance for what it is and take bold action to put an end to the charade.
North Carolina GOP’s Plan to Hijack Elections Should Concern Voters Everywhere
North Carolina Republicans wrote the playbook for GOP-controlled legislatures. Now they’re planning a bigger power grab.
Ohio GOP Is Trying to Raise Ballot Initiative Threshold to Block Abortion
Republicans have admitted the measure is intended to thwart an abortion rights initiative in the fall general election.
Ohio Republicans Are Trying to Take Power From Voters. We Won’t Let Them.
We must be as dogged about protecting our democracy as authoritarian forces are about decimating it.
Here’s What “Moore v. Harper” Means for Voting Rights Going Forward
The rejection of “independent state legislature” doctrine means fights against gerrymanders and racist laws can proceed.
SCOTUS Ruled in Favor of Voting Rights. Southern Black Voters Made That Happen.
The pro-democracy movement is alive and well in the South, fighting every attempt to drag us back to the Jim Crow era.
The Voting Rights Act Dodged a Bullet — for Now
Five House seats may well shift to Democrats in the wake of “Allen v. Milligan.”
A 2023 Wave of “Election Subversion” Bills Threatens 2024 Results
Legislation in 38 states would set conditions for the kind of “chaos and delay” that Trump exploited in 2020.
GOP Presidential Candidate Wants to Limit Voting Rights for Those 18-25
Right-wing calls to raise the voting age are a response to the GOP’s poor midterms performance among young people.