House GOP votes to name post office after John Lewis after opposing his voting rights bill
Not a single House Republican voted for the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021.
By Josh Israel - February 02, 2022Not a single House Republican voted for the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021.
By Josh Israel - February 02, 2022Thanks to the filibuster rule, the GOP minority was able to block the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement and the Freedom to Vote Acts.
By Josh Israel - January 20, 2022Senate Republicans wasted more than 10 hours reading the American Rescue Plan aloud last year.
By Josh Israel - January 18, 2022‘I would end the 60-vote filibuster right now,’ Cruz said in 2017. He also called the Senate rule ‘stupid.’
By Josh Israel - January 13, 2022President Joe Biden spoke in Atlanta on Tuesday in favor of voting rights legislation blocked by Republicans in the Senate.
By Oliver Willis - January 12, 2022Fully 60% of voters see expanding voting access in federal elections as an ‘important’ or ‘top’ priority, according to a new poll.
By Josh Axelrod - January 12, 2022In 2021, Republicans passed 34 laws in 19 states that would make it harder for people to vote.
By Josh Israel - January 11, 2022But Republicans in 17 states made it harder to vote last year.
By Josh Israel - January 10, 2022Democrats called on the Senate to pass voting rights legislation to strengthen democracy.
By Matt Cohen - January 07, 2022The Senate majority leader also plans to take up voting rights legislation in January.
By Josh Israel - December 20, 2021GOP officials and right-wing pundits are laying the groundwork for more false claims about election integrity.
By Emily Singer - November 02, 2021Rebecca Kleefisch has falsely accused Wisconsin school officials of promoting ‘critical race theory’ in the classroom.
By Emily Singer - October 27, 2021His change of heart was revealed at a town hall one day after Senate Republicans blocked a bill to expand voting rights.
By Emily Singer - October 22, 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, 2021Winsome Sears’ website quietly removed mentions of her opposition to abortion rights, gun safety, and voting rights in recent weeks.
By Josh Israel - September 13, 2021Republican Glenn Youngkin’s latest gubernatorial campaign ad skips the details of a voting rights effort.
By Josh Israel - September 01, 2021The civil arrest warrants seek to compel 52 House Democrats back to the state Capitol.
By Emily Singer - August 11, 2021It will start on Aug. 7, as soon as the current session ends.
By Emily Singer - August 05, 2021The Department of Justice said it will ‘vigorously prosecute’ the growing number of Americans who are making violent threats against civil servants.
By Emily Singer - July 30, 2021Crus says he’s upset that Texas Democrats are obstructing the ‘will’ of the majority.
By Josh Israel - July 23, 2021GOP-controlled state legislatures have passed 30 laws so far this year that restrict access to the ballot box.
By Emily Singer - July 23, 2021The proposal disproportionately targets counties that voted for President Joe Biden.
By Oliver Willis - July 20, 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, 2021‘It’s all stuff that you’ve been asking for for years,’ said Rep. John Sarbanes, who sponsored the For the People Act.
By Associated Press - July 12, 2021‘We will not leave any stone unturned to save American democracy,’ said Marc Morial, head of the National Urban League.
By Associated Press - July 10, 2021