Georgia's 2021 elections show why voting rights legislation is an emergency

The voter suppression law Georgia Republicans passed in early 2021 is working as planned, according to an analysis of the state’s municipal elections in November. Mother Jones looked at the data on …

World War II veteran's mail ballot application rejected twice, thanks to Texas voter suppression law

Here’s a headline Texas Republicans probably weren’t looking for when they passed SB1, their voter suppression law: ”‘I’ve never missed a vote’: 95-year-old World War II Veteran says his mail-in …

Very serious media just can't believe Biden dared point out how Republicans are attacking democracy

President Joe Biden dared to acknowledge that Republicans don’t have the warmest view of fair elections these days, and a series of media big names are very concerned about Biden acknowledging it. Not …

Georgia Republicans make mockery of democracy after new voter suppression law

An election board in a rural Georgia county held a meeting on Wednesday intended to slash the number of polling locations in the county from seven to one, in effect suppressing the vote in a county …

Ahead of 2022 midterms, Georgia Republicans oust Black board members, replace with all white men

Georgia Republicans are back to their old tricks, doing everything in their power to take control back from Black voters and Democrats—including a repeat of suppressive Jim Crow-era voting practices, …

Secret ALEC-run 'Academy' of right-wing lawmakers met to discuss voter suppression strategies

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) ran an “Academy” for state lawmakers on voter suppression last July, and according to The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), it was a doozy of a party, …

Latest Texas redistricting lawsuit tells us what we know: Republican lawmakers gerrymandered hard

Yet another lawsuit has been filed against the state of Texas over its abhorrent redistricting maps, which were approved last month by Gov. Greg Abbott after the third and final special legislative …

Justice Department sues Texas over 'unlawful and indefensible' provisions in voter suppression law

The Justice Department is suing Texas over the voter suppression law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in September, following its lawsuit against Texas for the punitive abortion ban that went into effect in …

Florida’s DeSantis says he’s going to crack down on things he signed into law

On Wednesday, at a campaign rally event which was billed as a “press conference” (sans the press), speaking to an audience filled with people that chanted “Let’s Go Brandon,” Republican Florida Gov. …

'Yes, this is voter suppression': Georgia journalist feels effects of butchered voting rights bill

It hasn’t even taken a full year for the effects of a caustic Georgia voting rights law to start to impact voters—and one in particular has a larger following than many. Journalist Rickey Bevington, …

Lawsuits mount over three Montana laws that make it harder for voters to cast their ballots

Montana Democrats filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against State Secretary Christi Jacobsen and Jeffrey Mangan, who serves as commissioner of political practices. The suit takes aim at Senate Bill 319 in …

This week on The Brief: Building political engagement year-round in North Carolina

Welcome to another recap of The Brief! Joining hosts Markos Moulitsas and Cara Zelaya this week were guests Marcus Bass, deputy director for the North Carolina Black Alliance, and La’Meshia …

Texas voting rights advocates vow to push onward despite new ‘election integrity’ law

This story was originally published at Prism.

By Williesha Morris

One week after the country’s most restrictive abortion ban was signed into law in Texas, the state has passed another piece of …

Klobuchar to Senate colleagues: 'End the filibuster,' 'get something done'

Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar is on a completely justifiable rampage.

That’s presumably directed to her colleagues who have been full of tough talk and tweets on abortion rights, and …

Republicans in Wisconsin, Michigan can't stop obsessing over the election fraud they never found

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, a dizzying array of pro-Trump election challenges in Michigan and Wisconsin got thrown out of court. Subsequently, the legal eagles who brought some of those …

Racist Texas Republicans pass racist voting restrictions, tell Democrats to not call it racist

The Democratic Senate failed the people of the state of Texas. Specifically, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin failed them. The Texas House passed new voting restrictions Thursday night in a bill that …

Ohio Republicans war with each other over how much voting to suppress

One voter suppression bill wasn’t enough for Ohio Republicans, so now they have two: voter suppression-lite and voter suppression-extreme.

The new bill is being championed by GOP lawmakers like …

Georgia Republicans take next step in making sure a Democrat is never elected there again

Under a veneer of “bipartisanship” and “good government,” the potential takeover of Fulton County, Georgia’s election operations has begun. The State Election Board has …

The Supreme Court and the filibuster both have to change if our democracy is going to be saved

Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell on Tuesday stood on the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the brutal Bloody Sunday beatings of civil rights marchers on March 7, 1965, to formally introduce the John …

Everything 'conservative' is shrinking as the movement's slow death continues unabated

The country is changing. Culture and demographics are engaging in a 1-2 gut punch to the conservative movement and its Republican Party. And as those changes sweep the nation, Republicans remain …