Every Senate Republican just rejected a bill to protect voting rights
The Freedom to Vote Act would block a number of voter suppression laws — but Senate Republicans just killed it.
By Emily Singer - October 20, 2021The Freedom to Vote Act would block a number of voter suppression laws — but Senate Republicans just killed it.
By Emily Singer - October 20, 2021Democrats scaled back the For the People Act to get moderate members of their party on board. But it still faces a Senate filibuster.
By Emily Singer - September 14, 2021President Joe Biden said Congress needs to pass voting rights laws to stop the Republican-led effort to ‘suppress and subvert the right to vote.’
By Emily Singer - July 13, 2021Advocates of filibuster reforms are counting on Democrats to stay united as they gear up for a summer showdown.
By Associated Press - June 26, 2021Democratic leaders expected Tuesday’s vote, and their efforts to pass the bill will continue.
By Associated Press - June 23, 2021Hundreds of legislators are pushing Congress to pass H.R. 1, the For the People Act, despite its paltry odds of victory in the Senate.
By Josh Axelrod - June 22, 2021Multiple polls have found the For the People Act, and its provisions that increase ballot access, are widely popular with the American electorate.
By Emily Singer - June 16, 2021A majority of Americans support many of the key objectives of the For the People Act, which every single Senate Republican is against.
By Emily Singer - June 09, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement comes as opposition from a key Senate Democrat puts the bill’s future in doubt.
By Emily Singer - June 08, 2021It’s the GOP’s latest attack on the For the People Act, a Democratic bill that aims to make voting fairer and easier.
By Emily Singer - May 11, 2021Nearly 70% of voters cast ballots either early or by mail in the last election cycle.
By Emily Singer - April 30, 2021A Pew Research poll found that most Americans support the voting provisions within the ‘For the People Act’, the pro-democracy bill Republicans are working to block.
By Emily Singer - April 23, 2021Republican state lawmakers are debating a bill that would allow Texas to avoid following a provision in H.R. 1 requiring them to enact automatic voter registration for all citizens.
By Emily Singer - April 16, 2021‘The myth of voter fraud is frequently used to target communities of color to delegitimize their vote,’ said Common Cause Texas.
By Emily Singer - April 08, 2021Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) was one of 147 congressional Republicans who voted to block certification of President Joe Biden’s election win.
By Emily Singer - April 07, 2021A study from the Brennan Center for Justice found the onslaught of voter suppression legislation is ramping up nationwide.
By Emily Singer - April 01, 2021GOP officials and right-wing organizations are trying to sugarcoat Georgia’s new, very racist voting law.
By Emily Singer - March 31, 2021Delta Air Lines had faced a boycott being organized by civil rights groups and Black churches against businesses headquartered in Georgia.
By Emily Singer - March 31, 2021A bill on automatic voter registration has passed in the Delaware Senate.
By Emily Singer - March 31, 2021This looks to be a new trend in voter suppression tactics coming from the GOP.
By Emily Singer - March 29, 2021GOP activists are petitioning for a ballot measure that would require ID to vote by mail, ban ballot drop boxes, and tighten signature requirements on absentee ballots.
By Emily Singer - March 24, 2021Republican state lawmakers across the country have introduced hundreds of voter suppression bills — some of which have already passed.
By Emily Singer - March 24, 2021Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner both supported Texas’ legal challenge to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory.
By Emily Singer - March 22, 2021A study from the Brennan Center for Justice found a pro-democracy bill from House Democrats could stop the Republican effort to make it harder to vote.
By Emily Singer - March 17, 2021Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said that the filibuster has a ‘death grip on American democracy.’
By Emily Singer - March 16, 2021Rep. John Kavanagh says, ‘Everybody shouldn’t be voting.’
By Emily Singer - March 11, 2021Republicans are comparing H.R. 1 to ‘the devil himself’ as their effort to vilify voting rights legislation intensifies.
By Emily Singer - March 11, 2021Buried in a bill passed in the Georgia House this week is a provision that makes it a crime to give out refreshments to voters waiting to cast ballots.
By Emily Singer - March 04, 2021In 2019, Jeff Van Drew said H.R. 1 would ‘restore our democracy.’ Two years later, he’s slamming it as ‘socialism … served on a platter.’
By Emily Singer - March 03, 2021The GOP opposition to the pro-democracy H.R. 1 bill is built on misinformation.
By Emily Singer - March 03, 2021