Voting rights activist, Stacey Abrams, sees an ever more pressing need to reform the filibuster in the US Senate. And she has a plan for how to do it — get support from reluctant centrist Democrats.
Ari Berman
Ari Berman is a senior reporter for Mother Jones, where he covers voting rights. Previously he was a senior contributing writer for The Nation magazine and a fellow at The Nation Institute. His second book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was published in August 2015 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Follow him on Twitter: @AriBerman.
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March 10, 2021“Every single metric of voter access that has been a good in Georgia is now under attack,” says Stacey Abrams
January 5, 2021While he pushes back against Trump, Raffensperger is trying to limit voting options for Democratic constituencies.
- December 7, 2020
That electorate—along with the organizing that spurred it—is now giving Democrats hope that Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff can win runoff elections for the US Senate on January 5, races that would have seemed almost unwinnable in past years.
October 5, 2020Republicans are doing all they can to preserve their power at the expense of the democratic process.
October 24, 2017And possibly handed him the whole election.
October 20, 2017Thomas Farr's nomination will move to the floor for a vote by the full Senate.
September 27, 2017Trump won the state by 22,748 votes.
August 17, 2017This is the seventh time courts have found Texas guilty of intentional discrimination since 2011.
July 6, 2017In an unprecedented show of bipartisan resistance, 45 states are refusing to hand over private voter data to Kris Kobach.
