Wisconsin Gov. Evers proposes $2.9 million to protect voting rights
Republicans in Wisconsin have tried to enact several voter suppression policies in recent years.
By Oliver Willis - February 16, 2023Republicans in Wisconsin have tried to enact several voter suppression policies in recent years.
By Oliver Willis - February 16, 2023After his party’s candidates lost several runoffs, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has come out in support of eliminating or replacing them.
By Emily Singer - December 15, 2022Republican candidate for Michigan secretary of state Kristina Karamo has filed a last-minute lawsuit targeting Wayne County’s absentee voting procedures.
By Adrian Cole - November 03, 2022Nevada Republican Senate nominee Adam Laxalt spearheaded a failed attempt to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential victory in the state.
By Josh Israel - November 02, 2022The Georgia Republican nominee opposes voting rights protections and amplified false conspiracies about the 2020 election.
By Josh Israel - October 12, 2022Matthew DePerno and Kristina Karamo, who believe the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen’ from Donald Trump, would be in charge of running elections and defending election law in Michigan.
By Emily Singer - April 25, 2022Republicans who say they’re worried about constitutionality continue to block federal voting rights legislation.
By Oliver Willis - March 30, 2022Republican Angela Rigas was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
By Emily Singer - March 28, 2022Conservative legislators in the state have proposed expensive legislation that aims to prevent nonexistent election fraud.
By Nick Vachon - March 10, 2022Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to repeat false information about racial voting disparities.
By Josh Israel - January 20, 2022In 2021, Republicans passed 34 laws in 19 states that would make it harder for people to vote.
By Josh Israel - January 11, 2022The Freedom to Vote Act would block a number of voter suppression laws — but Senate Republicans just killed it.
By Emily Singer - October 20, 2021The lawsuit calls a ban on political activity in college campus buildings a ‘surgical attack’ against youth participation in elections.
By Emily Singer - October 12, 2021Republicans passed the voter ID law in 2018.
By Emily Singer - September 17, 2021Democrats spent months protesting what they say are efforts to weaken minority turnout and preserve the GOP’s eroding dominance.
By Associated Press - September 07, 2021The civil arrest warrants seek to compel 52 House Democrats back to the state Capitol.
By Emily Singer - August 11, 2021A progressive activist secretly recorded Republican state lawmakers saying their voter suppression bill is meant to keep Democrats from winning elections.
By Emily Singer - August 09, 2021It will start on Aug. 7, as soon as the current session ends.
By Emily Singer - August 05, 2021GOP-controlled state legislatures have passed 30 laws so far this year that restrict access to the ballot box.
By Emily Singer - July 23, 2021Not a single GOP senator attended a field hearing in Atlanta to assess the impact of new voting restrictions from a law Georgia Republicans passed earlier this year.
By Emily Singer - July 19, 2021GOP senators appear poised to vote against the nomination of Myrna Pérez to the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
By Emily Singer - July 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, 2021Dozens of Democratic state representatives left Texas for Washington, D.C., in an effort to both block a GOP voter suppression bill, as well as convince Congress to pass voting rights legislation.
By Emily Singer - July 13, 2021Democrats are also protesting Republican attacks on transgender kids and other right-wing legislation.
By Emily Singer - July 12, 2021Consumers’ Research, a conservative group which previously targeted Nike and Coca-Cola, is taking aim at the MLB commissioner for moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta after Georgia passed its recent voter suppression law.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - July 08, 2021From ‘election integrity’ to ‘critical race theory’ to targeting transgender students, Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session agenda is red meat for the GOP base.
By Emily Singer - July 07, 2021It’s a rare win for voting rights.
By Emily Singer - July 02, 2021Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf accused the Republican-controlled legislature of ‘restricting the freedom to vote.’
By Emily Singer - June 30, 2021‘Where we believe the rights of civil rights of Americans have been violated we will not hesitate to act,’ said Attorney General Merrick Garland.
By Associated Press - June 25, 2021A study finds that anti-democratic sentiments abound within the Republican voting base.
By Emily Singer - June 24, 2021