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Voting Rights
The Fight to Re-Enfranchise Voters Continues
Hundreds of thousands of people in Florida remain disenfranchised due to a modern-day poll tax.
Florida’s Stunning Minimum Wage Win Shows Momentum Extends Beyond Blue States
In passing Amendment 2, Florida joins seven other states with a $15 per hour minimum wage.
Justice Department Claims Armed Feds Are Allowed to Inspect Vote Counts
The Justice Department's declaration heightens fears of possible intimidation efforts by the Trump administration.
As COVID Surges, States Attempt to Adapt With Drive-Through and Curbside Voting
Voters are heading to the polls in an election shadowed by the threat of disease and disenfranchisement.
Massachusetts and Alaska Voters Are Deciding Whether to Establish Ranked-Choice
Down-ballot races and state ballot measures will have major consequences for voting rights, racial justice, and more.
Experts Warn More Than 1 Million Mail-In Ballots Could Be Rejected in 2020 Races
Rejected ballots could end up swinging close races.
Social Movements Can Win Even With a Hostile Supreme Court
From reproductive and civil rights to worker protections, Supreme Court victories followed mass actions by the people.
Trump’s Lawyers Want Trump’s Judges to Limit Voting
In more than 300 voting cases, Republicans filed to strike rules to encourage turnout and opposed lawsuits to expand it.
Black Civil Rights Leaders Fear Barrett “Invites a Return to a Racist Past”
Leaders of five prominent organizations agreed that Amy Coney Barrett was alarmingly evasive on questions about racism.
Barrett Is Poised to Become the Most Radical Right-Wing Member of Supreme Court
Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation threatens health care, voting rights, racial justice and reproductive rights.