Michigan sued for ‘undeniable and unjustified’ plot to stop people from voting
The lawsuit targets Michigan’s signature match requirement for absentee ballots.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 30, 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, 2019When voting rights groups got access to Ohio’s list of people it intended to remove from voter rolls, they found nearly 1 in 5 people were on the list improperly.
By Lisa Needham - October 16, 2019The Kentucky Democratic Party won a lawsuit to ensure Kentucky voters can more easily participate on Nov. 5.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 15, 2019More wins include Georgia seeing voter registration skyrocket, and California makeing it easier for parents to run for office.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 04, 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, 2019Progressives won victories in California, where a new law protects workers in the gig economy, and a new task force in Minnesota will address violence against Native women.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 20, 2019Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) slammed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), reminding him of certain scandals in Ohio.
By Josh Israel - September 19, 2019Tennessee tried to criminalize voter registration, but Judge Aleta Trauger wasn’t having it.
By Lisa Needham - September 12, 2019Thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts’ dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, polling places are disappearing from minority communities all across the South.
By Lisa Needham - September 11, 2019Wins for voters in North Carolina and California, as well as the first congressional delegate from the Cherokee Nation, are worth celebrating this week.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 06, 2019In a week of rough news, progressives still scored a lot of wins.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 16, 2019Baseball fans can register to vote at Baltimore Orioles games, and Oregon has a new law to make cars more environmentally friendly.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 19, 2019Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is about to sign a bill that would all but end early voting on college campuses.
By Emily Singer - June 25, 2019While Trump was creating diplomatic disasters, Democrats were passing landmark legislation and blocking extremist GOP laws in states across the country.
By Emily Singer - June 07, 2019Republican lawmakers in Texas passed a bill to end mobile polling sites that help disabled veterans and the elderly vote.
By Emily Singer - May 24, 2019Florida Republicans snuck a provision into a bill that would block the public from tracking the state’s progress in restoring voting rights.
By Emily Singer - May 21, 2019An insidious new trend is emerging from Republican-held state legislatures in response to a surge of new Democratic voters in 2018.
By Emily Singer - April 30, 2019Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) won’t even hold a vote on a popular House-passed bill aimed at protecting voting rights.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 29, 2019Republicans in Congress are livid that Congress would investigate states for racist voter suppression efforts.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 16, 2019In a show of commitment to strengthening democracy and fair elections, House Democrats overwhelmingly passed H.R. 1.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 08, 2019Refusing to make it easier for Americans to vote only protects Mitch McConnell’s power.
By Oliver Willis - March 06, 2019Republicans didn’t bother to show up at a hearing featuring Stacey Abrams on voter suppression efforts.
By Oliver Willis - February 20, 2019Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings gave a powerful defense of voting rights under attack by Republicans.
By Oliver Willis - February 06, 2019Mitch McConnell is terrified of voters.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 06, 2019Mitch McConnell thinks that increased access to the ballot box is a bad thing, of course.
By Lisa Needham - January 31, 2019Although Florida voters voted to immediately restore the voting rights of felons who have served their time, governor-elect Ron DeSantis is trying to slow-walk it.
By Lisa Needham - December 14, 2018As the North Carolina absentee-ballot scandal worsens, the state GOP is melting down, while the national GOP is completely quiet.
By Lisa Needham - December 06, 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, 2018