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Why The Voting Rights Act’s 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last

The Voting Rights Act, the watershed Civil Rights era law that has prevented attempts to dilute minority votes through racially…

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Explainer: Can DOJ Access States’ Voter Data? It’s Complicated

Reports of the unusual requests from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) first started to trickle out in May.  It…

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The GOP’s New Voter Suppression Architect

When Republicans were desperate to win the 2014 Senate election in North Carolina, they selected Thom Tillis as their nominee.…

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States Investigated Noncitizen Voting. Big Surprise — The Results Don’t Match the Right’s Rhetoric.

For years, Republican lawmakers have used the threat of noncitizen voting to justify increasingly harsh voting restrictions. They claim that…

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Trump’s Chilling Retribution Campaign Poses a Grave Threat to Democracy

At a political conference in Maryland two years ago, Trump told hundreds of his supporters that he would be a…

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Don’t Say Vote: NC GOPers Want to Bar Election Officials From Encouraging Turnout

North Carolina Republicans have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or…

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GOP’s Latest Voter Suppression Target: Overseas Americans

For decades, federal law has guaranteed that U.S. citizens living abroad could cast ballots in federal elections. Republicans historically championed…

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Trump’s Growing Epstein Crisis

This much is clear: Donald Trump is in a full-scale panic. What started Saturday night with a long, rambling social…

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