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Blame John Roberts for Destroying the Voting Rights Act

The recent Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which effectively killed the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, was...

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Republicans Don’t Need to Win Elections Anymore. They Just Need Their Judges.

The redistricting news for Democrats has gone from bad to worse. A week after the US Supreme Court effectively destroyed the Voting Rights Act,...

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After SCOTUS Destroyed the Voting Rights Act, Southern States Rush to Pass Jim Crow Voting Maps

Just a week after the Supreme Court effectively destroyed the key remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act, Tennessee on Thursday is set to become...

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Supreme Court Deals a Death Blow to the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court’s six-to-three Republican-appointed majority issued a staggering ruling on Wednesday essentially killing the remaining protections...

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Virginia Dems Just Won a Major Battle in Trump’s Redistricting War

Last summer, when Donald Trump began pressuring GOP-controlled states to redraw their congressional maps mid-decade, Republicans had a lofty goal:...

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A Republican Dark Money Group Blankets Virginia With Deceptive Mailers Ahead of Redistricting Vote

Beginning in early March, Virginia voters, particularly members of the Black community, began receiving mailers that compared a proposal by Democrats...

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A Landslide in Wisconsin Will Make It Much Harder for MAGA to Steal Elections

Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election received far less attention than a similar contest a year ago, when Elon Musk spent $25 million trying to...

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Trump Wants to End Mail Voting. The Supreme Court’s Conservative Justices Appear Eager to Assist.

President Trump has claimed he is “going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and is currently lobbying the US Senate to effectively...

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The World Is on Fire. Gas Prices Are Rising. Republicans Are Trying to Make it Harder to Vote.

The world is on fire. Gas prices are rising. The US economy is in shambles. President Trump has bulldozed through his promise of “no new wars” and...

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These Far-Right Conspiracists Are Pushing Trump to Take Control of Voting

On Monday afternoon, as war raged with Iran, President Trump was seemingly preoccupied with more trivial matters. “FREE TINA PETERS!” he wrote on...

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Justice Alito’s Latest Opinion Is a Very, Very Bad Sign for Voting Rights

The Supreme Court on Monday evening overturned a New York state court ruling that found that the Staten Island-based district of Republican US House...

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The GOP’s “Show Us Your Papers” Bill Is the Latest Effort to Help Trump Take Over Elections

The Republican-controlled US House is set to pass a new version of the SAVE Act, a sweeping voter restriction bill that would require people to show...

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Trump Goes Public With Plan to “Take Over” Elections

Days after the FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots and voting records from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, President Trump called on...

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From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s Plans to Interfere in the Midterms Are Becoming More Dangerous

While the country was still reeling on Wednesday from the killing of two Americans by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, the Trump...

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Federal Court Upholds California Congressional Map, Bolstering Dems’ Chances of Retaking the House

In a big win for Democrats, a federal court panel on Wednesday upheld a new voter-approved congressional map in California that was designed to give...

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Indiana Republicans Just Defied Trump’s Pressure Campaign to Rig Their Congressional Maps

In an extraordinary rebuke to Donald Trump on Thursday, the Indiana state Senate rejected a gerrymandered congressional map relentlessly pushed by the...

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The Roberts Court Just Helped Trump Rig the Midterms

The Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated the Trump-inspired gerrymandered congressional map in Texas after it was blocked by a lower court, with the...

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Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Texas Gerrymander

In a bombshell decision on Tuesday, a federal court in Texas blocked a new congressional map that was created after President Donald Trump demanded...

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Voters Soundly Reject Trump’s Plot to Rig the Next Election

Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to rig the midterm elections through mid-decade gerrymandering, voter suppression, and weaponizing the legal...

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Dems Win Major Victory Against Trumpism as Prop. 50 Passes in California

California voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50 in a race called by the Associated Press before a single ballot was counted—a...

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California Fights Trump’s Attempt to Steal the Midterms

When Sara Sadhwani, a Democratic member of California’s independent redistricting commission and a political science professor at Pomona College,...

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Republicans Are Making One of the Most Gerrymandered States in the Nation Even More Rigged

The GOP-controlled North Carolina legislature, which has already gone to extreme lengths to undermine the will of the voters, is set to pass a new...

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Trump Says He’ll Send Troops to Portland and Sanction “Full Force” Against Americans

President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday that he was directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “to provide all necessary Troops to...

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The Justice Department Is Ramping Up Trump’s Election-Rigging Efforts

On Thursday evening, around the same time the Justice Department overruled career prosecutors in order to bring charges against former FBI Director...

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The Trump Administration’s Latest Power Grab: Your Voter Data

As the Trump administration vows to undertake a sweeping crackdown on liberal organizations following last week’s murder of MAGA influencer Charlie...

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On Trump’s Orders, Missouri Republicans Plan to Gerrymander a Black Lawmaker Out of Office

Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterms through a series of unprecedented mid-decade gerrymanders shifted from Texas to Missouri on Wednesday,...

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On Trump’s Orders, Missouri Republicans Plan to Gerrymander a Black Lawmaker Out of Office

Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterms through a series of unprecedented mid-decade gerrymanders shifted from Texas to Missouri on Wednesday,...

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The Nation’s Landmark Voting Rights Law Just Turned 60. It May Not Survive Trump.

On July 24, US Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Latina Democrat from Houston, traveled to Austin to testify before the Texas House against the mid-decade...

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Fleeing Texas Was the Only Way Democrats Could Block Trump’s Plan to Rig the Midterms

On Sunday evening, Texas House Democrats made the fateful decision to flee the state to block Republicans from quickly passing a new Trump-ordered...

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Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging a New War on Democracy

Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterms became crystal clear on Wednesday, as Texas Republicans introduced a new congressional redistricting...

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Blame John Roberts for Enabling Trump’s Massive Power Grab in Texas

To justify their brazen effort to redraw US House districts in Texas ahead of the 2026 midterms, state Republicans cited a Department of Justice...

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Texas Republicans Have a Brazen New Plan to Block Democrats from Retaking the House in 2026

The state of Texas is currently mourning at least 120 lives lost due to horrific flooding in the Hill Country. But Texas Republicans appear focused on...

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Hudson Valley’s “No Kings” Rally: Protesting Dictatorship in a Key Battleground

Close to four hundred people, many of them wearing plastic gold crowns, assembled in the Hudson Valley town of New Paltz, New York, on Saturday...

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Trump Is Weaponizing the Justice Department to Advance His Voter Suppression Plans

Donald Trump has made false claims about voter fraud central to his political identity and issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order in March. Now...

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North Carolina GOP Judge Finally Concedes After Six-Month Effort to Steal Election Fails

Six months after the November election, Republican state supreme court candidate Jefferson Griffin finally conceded to Democratic Justice Allison...

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Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks GOP Plot to Steal North Carolina Election

The unprecedented GOP attempt to overturn a Democratic victory in a North Carolina State Supreme Court race suffered a major setback Monday night at...

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A Massive Power Grab Could Help North Carolina Republicans Steal an Election

Two weeks after the November 2024 election, the Republican-controlled legislature in North Carolina convened a lame-duck session for the ostensible...

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A Federal Court Just Blocked Key Parts of Trump’s Anti-Voting Executive Order

A federal judge on Thursday blocked key parts of a sweeping anti-voting executive order issued by President Donald Trump in March. Voting rights...

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House Republicans Are Set to Pass a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions

Two weeks after Donald Trump issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order, the House of Representatives is set to pass a measure, the SAVE Act, that...

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Republicans Are Stealing a North Carolina Judicial Race. They Won’t Stop There.

On April 1, Republicans and Elon Musk decisively lost their bid to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But three days later the GOP came closer than ever...

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Elon Musk Tried to Buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. He Lost.

“Musk has made this a referendum on the idea of an American oligarchy,” Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler told me recently, as he warned...

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Elon Musk Is Running the Most Brazen Scheme to Buy an Election in Modern US History

On March 17, Elon Musk appeared on Sen. Ted Cruz’s podcast and falsely alleged that Democrats were giving undocumented immigrants fraudulent access...

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Elon Musk’s Attempt to Buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court Reaches a New Low

Elon Musk has already spent more money—$20 million and counting—to flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court than any individual donor in the history of US...

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Trump’s New Executive Order Is an “Astonishing and Unprecedented Voter Suppression” Effort

On Tuesday afternoon, President Trump signed a far-reaching executive order that Eliza Sweren-Becker, senior counsel in the Brennan Center for...

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Elon Musk Revealed Why He’s Spending Millions to Flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court

On March 22, Elon Musk hosted conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel and US Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) for a discussion on X...

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Is a Referendum on Elon Musk

“If you are concerned about what Elon Musk and Donald Trump are doing to this country, to this state, and to this county, raise your hand,”...

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Republicans and Elon Musk Are Also Causing a Constitutional Crisis in the States

On February 20, a dark money group funded by Elon Musk began running ads attacking progressive judge Susan Crawford, who is running in a Wisconsin...

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Elon Musk Is Trying to Buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Not content with spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Donald Trump and Republican candidates in 2024 and then taking a wrecking...

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Trump Is Gutting Efforts to Combat Foreign Election Interference

The Trump Administration is gutting the federal agency in charge of combatting foreign election interference, increasing the likelihood that foreign...

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Democrats Have a Plan to Counter Trump at the State Level

At a time when Republicans control all levers of power in Washington and national Democrats are struggling to respond to Donald Trump’s increasingly...

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