House passes Voting Rights bill with just one Republican vote
The Voting Rights Advancement Act aims to restore protections decimated by the Supreme Court in 2013.
By Josh Israel - December 06, 2019The Voting Rights Advancement Act aims to restore protections decimated by the Supreme Court in 2013.
By Josh Israel - December 06, 2019Florida’s Republican governor is seeking to overturn a voter-approved constitutional amendment giving those with nonviolent felony convictions the right to vote.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 05, 2019In advance of the 2020 elections, a number of voter suppression efforts are underway.
By Lisa Needham - November 26, 2019Georgia’s absentee ballot law ‘will have a disproportionate effect on minority voters,’ according to the lawsuit.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 07, 2019Virginia state Sen. Tommy Norment told his constituents Tuesday’s election was over before it started.
By Josh Israel - November 05, 2019Republicans in four states have already canceled their primaries, ignoring three primary challengers.
By Josh Israel - October 31, 2019The lawsuit targets Michigan’s signature match requirement for absentee ballots.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 30, 2019A group of Democratic organizations filed a lawsuit in North Carolina to protect early voting.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 29, 2019Six of the 17 Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee showed up, only to vote against the legislation.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 24, 2019Many of the new voters are people who tend to vote for Democrats, such as racial minorities or people under the age of 30.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 01, 2019Tennessee passed a law that would civilly fine and criminally penalize people who conduct voter registration drives, but a coalition of plaintiffs is fighting back.
By Lisa Needham - August 20, 2019Republican-led voter purges are contributing to GOP election victories.
By Oliver Willis - August 02, 2019David Whitley was about to be pushed out of office for waging a botched voter purge.
By Emily Singer - May 28, 2019Republicans in Congress are livid that Congress would investigate states for racist voter suppression efforts.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 16, 2019Republicans are cooking up yet another large-scale voter suppression scheme.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 01, 2019Republicans are happy to bring back Jim Crow if it helps Trump win.
By Oliver Willis - March 20, 2019In a show of commitment to strengthening democracy and fair elections, House Democrats overwhelmingly passed H.R. 1.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 08, 2019Brian Kemp’s years of suppressing the black vote in Georgia might have helped him win his race for governor.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 07, 2019Trump loves to make up ridiculous stories about fake voter fraud — but he has nothing to say about a real case of massive election fraud carried out by Republicans in North Carolina.
By Emily Singer - February 22, 2019Evidence has emerged that a North Carolina Republican candidate sought out a known fraudster — who his own son warned him against hiring — to run his absentee ballot program in a House race being investigated for election fraud.
By Emily Singer - February 21, 2019Republicans broke the law to steal a congressional seat in North Carolina, a state investigation has uncovered.
By Oliver Willis - February 18, 2019Mitch McConnell is terrified of voters.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 06, 2019Republicans can’t win elections in a fair fight — so they try to rig the democratic process instead.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 18, 2019The feds are investigating whether Republicans cheated to win a seat in Congress.
By Oliver Willis - December 10, 2018Wisconsin Republicans are trying to strip powers away from the state’s newly elected Democratic governor and attorney general — and citizens are rising up to protest the right-wing power grab.
By Oliver Willis - December 03, 2018Nancy Pelosi and a new Democratic majority will kick things off with a bold proposal to protect voting rights and fight corruption when they reclaim power in January.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 30, 2018Paul Ryan is upset that voters in California replaced half of the Republican congressional delegation in the state, reducing the GOP contingent from 14 to merely 7.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 29, 2018Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) abandoned her ‘moderate’ reputation to fully embrace the Trump agenda of disenfranchising black Americans.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 28, 2018Cindy Hyde-Smith’s botched, racist campaigning isn’t going well for her.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 20, 2018This is a scandal for anyone who cares about free and fair elections in America.
By Emily Crockett - November 16, 2018