Voting Rights
Civil Rights Leaders Declare State of Emergency For Voting Rights, Democracy
Photos: Twitter\YouTube WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the 59th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, leaders of the nation’s most prominent ...
Voting-Rights Group: Florida’s New Election Law Violates Free Speech
Photos: ACLU\YouTube Pointing to the First Amendment, voting-rights organizations Wednesday urged a federal appeals court to reject part of a controversial Florida elections law ...
American Democracy Is At Risk. Here Are Actions We Must Take To Protect It
Photos: YouTube\Twitter “The threats became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name but included members of my family…” ...
Without A Broad People’s Alliance, Meaningful Change Is Hopeless
Photos: Brookings Institution\YouTube\Twitter How will we transform US society in all the ways that are needed? One absolutely essential element, one we do not ...
Undermining American Elections From Within And Without
Photos: Wikimedia Commons When Donald Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to demand that he “find 11,780 votes, which is one more ...
2022 Elections: Voting Rights Groups Act To Block Georgia’s Anti-Voter Law
Photos: YouTube\Twitter ATLANTA – Wednesday, voting rights groups filed a preliminary injunction motion to challenge certain barriers to voting created by Georgia’s anti-voter law, ...
Holder: Republicans “Have To Cheat” To Win Elections
Photos: Wikimedia Commons\Twitter Former attorney general Eric Holder said the country’s democracy is in need of a “serious renovation,” claiming Republicans practicing gerrymandering threaten ...
Florida: New Anti-Voter Law Creates New Barriers
Photos: YouTube\Screenshot TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Caren Short, senior supervising attorney for Voting Rights with the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Michelle Kanter Cohen, policy ...
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 ...
Poor People’s Campaign: Hundreds March Down Wall Street Demanding Economic Justice
Photos: Poor People’s Campaign Hundreds of poor and low-wealth people marched through Wall Street, chanting “if we don’t get it, shut it down” and ...
