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For Second Time, Fed Court Strikes Down Racial Gerrymander of Alabama Districts
The court ordered a cartographer and a special master to redraw the maps by the end of the month.
![Former President Donald Trump signs autographs hits his shot from the 16th tee during day three of the LIV Golf Invitational Bedminster at Trump National Golf Club on August 13, 2023 in Bedminster, New Jersey.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0821-Donald-Trump-400x300.jpg)
Georgia RICO Charge Against Trump Is Broader Than Federal January 6 Indictment
Trump and/or his cronies are charged with 161 predicate acts in their criminal enterprise to overturn the election.
![Americans vote at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens on November 8, 2022, in Madison, Wisconsin.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0803-wisconsin-1-400x300.jpg)
Voting Rights Groups File Legal Challenge to Wisconsin’s Legislative Maps
A new lawsuit argues the Republican-drawn voter maps are unconstitutional due to “extreme partisan gerrymanders.”
![David Caise, right, holds the door for a disabled voter as he leaves the Everman Community Center in Everman, Texas, after casting his ballot on March 4, 2008.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0728-disabled-voter-400x300.jpg)
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.
![Voters wait in line to cast their ballot for early voting at the Franklin County Board of Elections, on the eve of the U.S. midterm elections, in Columbus, Ohio, on November 7, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0728-voting-400x300.jpg)
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.
![A woman in pink votes at a booth as her young daughter, wearing a coat in the same shade of pink as her mother, stands beside her](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0724-nc-voting-400x300.jpg)
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.
![People vote at a polling location at Indianola Church of Christ on Election Day on November 8, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0712-ohio-voting-400x300.jpg)
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.
![An Ohioan votes with their dog in a room with deep red carpet, surrounded by other people voting at other booths](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0703-ohio-voter-400x300.jpg)
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.
![People attend a rally in front of the Supreme Court as the Court hears oral arguments in the Moore v. Harper case, on December 7, 2022, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/GettyImages-1245443444-400x300.jpg)
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.
![Lead counsel for the plaintiffs Deuel Ross (2nd left) speaks to members of the press as President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Janai Nelson (right), plaintiff Evan Milligan (2nd right) and Rep. Terri Sewell (3rd right) listen after the oral argument of the Merrill v. Milligan case at the U.S. Supreme Court on October 4, 2022, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0627-scotus-b-400x300.jpg)
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.