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  • Democracy & Government
    New Brennan Center Report: The Redistricting Landscape, 2021–22
    February 17, 2021
    | Michael Li
    The heart of the threat to American democracy.
  • Democracy & Government
    Why the Census Is Crucial
    February 3, 2021
    | Ruby Walsh
    Biden reverses Trump-era exclusion of immigrants from US Census, striking blow to main GOP tactic for disenfranchising communities of color. 
  • Pandemic Timeline
    Unsanitized, Election Edition: Where State Legislatures Could Flip
    October 30, 2020
    | David Dayen

    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.

  • Fight to Vote
    International Body Says Voting Problems ‘Could Harm Integrity’ of US Election
    August 25, 2020
    | Sam Levine

    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.

  • Democracy & Government
    Step One: Redraw the Maps. Step Two: Win Elections. Step Three: Suppress the Vote.
    May 15, 2020
    In Slay the Dragon, a new documentary from Participant Media, we learn how a secret Republican project called REDMAP redrew congressional districts and guaranteed victory.
  • Democracy & Government
    Stealing America's Democracy, One Vote at a Time
    May 15, 2020
    Across 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.
  • Democracy & Government
    How Does a Political Party Get Fewer Votes But Still Win Elections? Gerrymandering on Steroids
    May 13, 2020
    New 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.
  • Democracy & Government
    How Gerrymandering 'Got Out of Control' in 2010 and Why It Matters Today
    May 11, 2020
    It has been a long held tradition in American politics that every 10 years, the party in control of state houses would use gerrymandering to redraw districts in their favor for the next election. But in 2010, something different happened.
  • Moyers on Democracy
    Republicans Admit They Lose When Elections Are Fair and Free
    April 8, 2020
    Voting rights. The Republican Party “would rather try to keep people from voting than lose,” David Daley tells Bill. Daley is a reporter who has written extensively about gerrymandering and voting rights — and fired up a generation of activists fighting for free and fair elections.
  • Democracy & Government
    Progressive Leaders Offer Perspective on Election Night 2017
    November 10, 2017
    | Heather McGhee, Rashad Robinson, Ai-Jen Poo and Anna Galland
    The success of these contests at every level are nothing short of a rallying cry for Democrats, and a warning shot for Republicans everywhere.


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