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![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.
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The Voting Rights Act Dodged a Bullet — for Now
Five House seats may well shift to Democrats in the wake of “Allen v. Milligan.”
![An election sign placed outside the voting center at Riggs LaSalle Recreation Center in Washington, D.C., on November 8, 2022, during midterm election day.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/GettyImages-1244628451-400x300.jpg)
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.
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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.
![Ginni Thomas](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_0505-ginni-thomas-400x300.jpg)
Leonard Leo Arranged Secret Payments to Ginni Thomas Ahead of Voting Rights Case
The Supreme Court is looking less like a bench and more like an auction house, said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
![Cleta Mitchell speaks about election integrity at the South Carolina Republican Party's inaugural "First in the South Republican Action Conference" in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on August 27, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/04/GettyImages-1242767643-400x300.jpg)
Republican Lawyer to GOP Donors: Restricting Campus Voting Should Be Priority
The intensifying GOP campaign against youth voting comes after young people had a major impact on the 2022 midterms.