From the shadow docket, radical Supreme Court blows up Voting Rights Act, allows racist gerrymander

The U.S. Supreme Court hacked one more big chunk out of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Monday, allowing Alabama to implement a congressional redistricting plan a lower court had rejected. They did it …

New proposal from Democrats sets the bar for Collins/Manchin ‘bipartisan’ ruse on election reform

The confession from the former guy that hell yes, he was attempting a coup, and that he’d pardon anyone convicted of trying to violently overthrow the government on his behalf should he be in a …

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 …

Biden’s first year in office left roadblocks for BIPOC progress

This article was originally published at Prism

President Joe Biden was lauded a year ago for being the first president to directly address white supremacy as one of the country’s major crises during …

News Roundup: Sinema, a politician only Mitch McConnell could love; Joe Manchin remains bleh

Hello, Friday folks! This week has been sad-face, angry-face, consternation emoji! The Democratic Party—with no help from the Republican Party, of course—is unable to protect the voting rights of …

Rep. Ruben Gallego says some of Kyrsten Sinema's Senate colleagues have encouraged him to run

Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego says he will decide next year whether to primary Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who this week joined West Virginia’s Maserati-driving Joe Manchin and 50 Senate Republicans in …

Progressive groups ditch Sinema, leaving her political future in tatters

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona tried her damndest to sell the idea that a random Senate rule was far more important than the fundamental right to vote, but Democratic voters and groups don’t seem to …

Despite major loss on voting rights, Biden has accomplished a ton in his first year in office

As we lick our wounds following the devastating failure of two historic voting rights bills in the Senate, let’s try to look to the accomplishments of President Joe Biden’s first year in office and …

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 …

‘Democracy’s foes have not had the last word.’ The fight to save democracy won’t stop

What comes next? Republicans teamed up with two faithless Democrats, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, to deliver a body blow to President Joe Biden, democracy, and their own institution Wednesday. …

McConnell admits he doesn't think Black people are American as voting rights dies in the Senate

Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema made it official Wednesday night: Whatever they say, the reality is that they oppose voting rights. Democracy itself is something to which Manchin and Sinema give …

Texas stumbles over its own voter suppression laws in new voter registration form snafu

Owing to a paper shortage and a change in voter registration documents, it’s become that much harder for some of the most marginalized Texans to register to vote this year. The Texas Secretary of …

The easy trick Democrats have to save democracy, and the Senate, if Manchin & Sinema let them

Despite what you might be hearing from Republicans and Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the proposal Senate Democrats will advance for reforming the filibuster to pass voting rights is carefully …

It's official: Manchin and Sinema are the lone holdouts among Democrats, refusing to save democracy

At 6:30 PM ET Wednesday, the Senate Democrats will try to break the filibuster on voting rights and election reform. There will be 48 Democrats united behind doing this, according to Fix the Senate, …

Emily's List reminds Sinema groups are happy to withhold endorsements if she doesn't do her job

Senate Democrats are trying to get rid of the filibuster for voting rights legislation. This shouldn’t be a controversial decision, and in some ways, it isn’t; Democratic Sens. Krysten Sinema of …

DeSantis out-Orwells Orwell with proposed $6 million police ‘election integrity unit’

Today, as the Senate debates two of the most important bills in the nation’s history on voting rights, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is planning some kind of militarized police force to monitor voting in …

Manchin, Sinema could be forced to work in potential Plan B keep filibuster and save voting rights

The Senate resumes Tuesday at noon, foregoing what would have been a week of recess for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in order to debate the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, the combined voting …

Schumer postpones filibuster, voting rights fight to next week

It was the perfect storm for the Senate on Thursday, resulting in disaster for Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s plan to have a showdown over the filibuster and voting rights and elections reforms by …

Manchin, Sinema just made it that much easier for Trump to seize control

During recent weeks, while President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have been building the case for the Freedom to Vote and the John Lewis Voting Rights bills, there’s also been …