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Voting Rights: There Is Reason To Be Alarmed And Optimistic

Photos: Twitter Michael Waldman hadn’t planned on rereleasing his 2016 book, The Fight to Vote, anytime soon. But he didn’t anticipate that a sitting ...

Senate Bill 1, a dangerous and sweeping voter restriction bill, passed both houses of the Texas Legislature.

Brennan Center: We’re Suing Texas Over Its Voter Suppression Law

Photo: YouTube On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Bill 1, a dangerous and sweeping voter restriction bill, passed both houses of the Texas Legislature. This piece ...

The Court of Appeals found that Indiana’s purge law was inconsistent with the federal Motor Voter law, legislation that Congress

Court Upholds Ruling Against Indiana’s Voter Roll Purges

Photo: Twitter\Roland Martin Yesterday the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in League of Women Voters of Indiana v. Sullivan (previously called Indiana NAACP ...

Partisan Election Review Efforts in Five States, a look at efforts to conduct so-called “audits” of 2020 election results in Ar

Four States Following Arizona in Partisan “Audits” of 2020 Election

Photos: YouTube The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, Protect Democracy, and the R Street Institute last week published Partisan Election Review Efforts ...

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, between January 1 and May 14, 2021, 14 states have passed 22 laws making it harder

“We Must Escalate Our Fight for Voting Rights Protection”

Photo: YouTube Last Tuesday, Senate Republicans voted against the For the People Act, which would have strengthened access to the ballot. If we take ...

Republican legislative majorities and GOP governors are moving to make it more difficult to vote

Republicans Pushing Voter Suppression Measures in at Least 45 States

Photo: YouTube Republicans at the state level have moved swiftly to either roll back some easy access to voting or put new obstacles in ...

Republicans have now turned a new page in their Jim Crow voter suppression playbook and are now passing "laws" to make it arduo

America’s Racial Wounds, Jim Crow, and Republican Voter Suppression Targeting Black America

Photo: YouTube In the face of losses in the 2020 Election, and in the January Georgia runoff election, Republicans have now turned a new ...

House of Representatives passed the For the People Act (H.R. 1), which includes reforms to voting, redistricting, campaign finan

Brennan Center Praises House Passage of ‘For the People Act’

Photo: YouTube Wednesday night the House of Representatives passed the For the People Act (H.R. 1), which includes reforms to voting, redistricting, campaign finance, ...

New York Senate voted to automatically restore voting rights to people upon release from prison.

Brennan Center Praises NY Senate’s Vote to Restore Voting Rights of Parolees

Photo: SentencingProject Wednesday, the New York Senate voted to automatically restore voting rights to people upon release from prison. New York is one of ...