Voting rights are at risk in the 2023 Virginia legislative elections
Virginia Republicans have pushed to make it harder to vote and to keep former felons from regaining their rights.
By Josh Israel - April 19, 2023Voting Rights
There’s a good reason so many red-state Republicans are urging voters to choose the Democrat.
By Eric Boehlert - October 18, 2018Stacey Abrams is looking out for the Georgia voters that Brian Kemp is trying to cheat.
By Tommy Christopher - October 14, 2018Republican Brian Kemp is trying to deny minority voters the right to vote. In Georgia. In 2018.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 12, 2018Former Republican Gov. Bill Graves endorsed Democrat Laura Kelly over Republican Kris Kobach in the Kansas race for governor.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 05, 2018Nine polling places in majority-black Randolph County were open for a recent GOP runoff election. But county officials may close seven of them in November just as Georgia is on the brink of electing the nation’s first black woman governor.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 17, 2018Trump loyalist Kris Kobach puts the GOP at risk in Kansas with his history of swindling, scandals, lies, and ties to white nationalists.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 15, 2018Kris Kobach’s primary race for Kansas governor is still too close to call — and because he’s still secretary of state, Kobach plans to defy ethical concerns and lead his own recount.
By Tommy Christopher - August 08, 2018Kris Kobach, who led Trump’s voter suppression efforts, bilked multiple small towns out of money while pursuing legally unsound immigration ordinances that cost them millions.
By Oliver Willis - August 01, 2018Trump said something so stupid even Fox News couldn’t help but laugh.
By Tommy Christopher - August 01, 2018Maine’s Gov. Paul LePage throws a temper tantrum and refuses to do his job.
By Eric Boehlert - June 12, 2018Kris Kobach was held in contempt by a federal judge for misleading his state’s voters. He’s still misleading them.
By Matthew Chapman - May 11, 2018Kris Kobach once spearheaded the GOP’s plot to block the vote, with Trump’s support. Now, after a devastating court defeat, his own party has started to turn on him.
By Matthew Chapman - April 30, 2018A federal judge found Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in contempt of court for ignoring her previous orders. And she ordered him to pay the ACLU’s legal fees stemming from the hearings.
By Alison R. Parker - April 18, 2018Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel suggested that blocking voters from the polls won the election for Republicans. And he’s proud that he helped.
By Matthew Chapman - April 16, 2018Now that the court had ordered fair elections in Pennsylvania, Rep. Ryan Costello is too afraid to run for re-election.
By Matthew Chapman - March 26, 2018Republicans in Kentucky wanted to make it harder to vote. They failed.
By Matthew Chapman - March 13, 2018Trying to score political points by chasing voter fraud in court, Kris Kobach became a laughing stock this week instead.
By Eric Boehlert - March 09, 2018Pat Toomey, the Republican senator from Pennsylvania, is adding fuel to his party’s fire in calls for impeaching judges.
By Kaili Joy Gray - February 21, 2018Pennsylvania Rep. Ryan Costello is desperate to keep his seat.
By Matthew Chapman - February 21, 2018This is a shocking and dangerous assault on the judiciary.
By Kaili Joy Gray - February 05, 2018A major defeat for Pennsylvania Republicans just increased Democrats chances of retaking the House.
By Eric Boehlert - February 05, 2018The head of the committee to elect House Republicans admits that gerrymandering is keeping them all in their jobs.
By Matthew Chapman - January 30, 2018For years, congressional elections in North Carolina have been completely uncompetitive. Republicans in the state legislature had rigged them with the most aggressive gerrymander in the country, packing Democrats together and spreading out Republicans to ensure the GOP would always win a majority of seats. But advocates of fair congressional representation won an enormous victory […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 09, 2018