The US has slipped 11 points in a decade – below Argentina and Mongolia – according the latest report by a democracy watchdog.
- March 10, 2021“Every single metric of voter access that has been a good in Georgia is now under attack,” says Stacey Abrams
- February 17, 2021The heart of the threat to American democracy.
- February 3, 2021Biden reverses Trump-era exclusion of immigrants from US Census, striking blow to main GOP tactic for disenfranchising communities of color.
- October 30, 2020
Democrats have learned this time that they need to compete hard here, to take advantage of demographic and voter sentiment changes (particularly in the suburbs) and win big in state legislatures, to either block unilateral Republican crafting of the maps or gain the power themselves.
- August 25, 2020
The tone of the 2020 ODIHR report reflects far more alarm than in 2016, and notes that only some of its recommendations for improvements in the US electoral system have been acted on.
- May 15, 2020In Slay the Dragon, a new documentary from Participant Media, we learn how a secret Republican project called REDMAP redrew congressional districts and guaranteed victory.
- May 15, 2020Across the country, 25 states have passed restrictive voting laws since 2010. In this clip from the new documentary, Slay the Dragon, we learn what happened in North Carolina.
- May 13, 2020New techniques in districting allow legislators to essentially pick their voters, instead of the other way around. And in 2010, Republicans in several states redrew maps that guaranteed victory.