At Jan. 6 vigil, Democratic lawmakers say voting rights are key to protecting democracy
Democrats called on the Senate to pass voting rights legislation to strengthen democracy.
By Matt Cohen - January 07, 2022Democrats called on the Senate to pass voting rights legislation to strengthen democracy.
By Matt Cohen - January 07, 2022The Senate majority leader also plans to take up voting rights legislation in January.
By Josh Israel - December 20, 2021GOP officials and right-wing pundits are laying the groundwork for more false claims about election integrity.
By Emily Singer - November 02, 2021Rebecca Kleefisch has falsely accused Wisconsin school officials of promoting ‘critical race theory’ in the classroom.
By Emily Singer - October 27, 2021His change of heart was revealed at a town hall one day after Senate Republicans blocked a bill to expand voting rights.
By Emily Singer - October 22, 2021The Freedom to Vote Act would block a number of voter suppression laws — but Senate Republicans just killed it.
By Emily Singer - October 20, 2021Democrats scaled back the For the People Act to get moderate members of their party on board. But it still faces a Senate filibuster.
By Emily Singer - September 14, 2021Winsome Sears’ website quietly removed mentions of her opposition to abortion rights, gun safety, and voting rights in recent weeks.
By Josh Israel - September 13, 2021Republican Glenn Youngkin’s latest gubernatorial campaign ad skips the details of a voting rights effort.
By Josh Israel - September 01, 2021The civil arrest warrants seek to compel 52 House Democrats back to the state Capitol.
By Emily Singer - August 11, 2021It will start on Aug. 7, as soon as the current session ends.
By Emily Singer - August 05, 2021The Department of Justice said it will ‘vigorously prosecute’ the growing number of Americans who are making violent threats against civil servants.
By Emily Singer - July 30, 2021Crus says he’s upset that Texas Democrats are obstructing the ‘will’ of the majority.
By Josh Israel - July 23, 2021GOP-controlled state legislatures have passed 30 laws so far this year that restrict access to the ballot box.
By Emily Singer - July 23, 2021The proposal disproportionately targets counties that voted for President Joe Biden.
By Oliver Willis - July 20, 2021Not a single GOP senator attended a field hearing in Atlanta to assess the impact of new voting restrictions from a law Georgia Republicans passed earlier this year.
By Emily Singer - July 19, 2021GOP senators appear poised to vote against the nomination of Myrna Pérez to the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
By Emily Singer - July 14, 2021President Joe Biden said Congress needs to pass voting rights laws to stop the Republican-led effort to ‘suppress and subvert the right to vote.’
By Emily Singer - July 13, 2021Dozens of Democratic state representatives left Texas for Washington, D.C., in an effort to both block a GOP voter suppression bill, as well as convince Congress to pass voting rights legislation.
By Emily Singer - July 13, 2021Democrats are also protesting Republican attacks on transgender kids and other right-wing legislation.
By Emily Singer - July 12, 2021‘It’s all stuff that you’ve been asking for for years,’ said Rep. John Sarbanes, who sponsored the For the People Act.
By Associated Press - July 12, 2021‘We will not leave any stone unturned to save American democracy,’ said Marc Morial, head of the National Urban League.
By Associated Press - July 10, 2021Consumers’ Research, a conservative group which previously targeted Nike and Coca-Cola, is taking aim at the MLB commissioner for moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta after Georgia passed its recent voter suppression law.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - July 08, 2021It’s a rare win for voting rights.
By Emily Singer - July 02, 2021Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf accused the Republican-controlled legislature of ‘restricting the freedom to vote.’
By Emily Singer - June 30, 2021New polls show little support for GOP efforts to suppress the vote, ban abortions, and eliminate gun licensing and training requirements.
By Josh Israel - June 25, 2021Hundreds of legislators are pushing Congress to pass H.R. 1, the For the People Act, despite its paltry odds of victory in the Senate.
By Josh Axelrod - June 22, 2021Sen. Marco Rubio is attacking voting rights legislation introduced by Rep. Val Demings, his likely Democratic opponent in 2022.
By Emily Singer - June 17, 2021Multiple polls have found the For the People Act, and its provisions that increase ballot access, are widely popular with the American electorate.
By Emily Singer - June 16, 2021A majority of Americans support many of the key objectives of the For the People Act, which every single Senate Republican is against.
By Emily Singer - June 09, 2021