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  • Fight to Vote
    Two Swing State Mail Ballot Return Deadlines Stand, But Ballots Could Still Be Rejected
    November 2, 2020
    Conservative justices said it was too late to change the rules, but said they’d support disqualifying 2020 ballots if the cases resurfaced after Election Day.  
  • 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
    Texas Immigration Law Spells Big Shift in Republican Strategy
    June 1, 2017
    | Susannah Jacob
    Who is winning in a showdown between local and state regulation?
  • Democracy & Government
    New Anti-Protesting Legislation: A Deeper Look
    March 7, 2017
    | Traci Yoder
    It's important not to let the wave of state bills trying to criminalize protests frighten us away from pushing back at every level.
  • Activism
    Where Protests Flourish, Anti-Protest Bills Follow
    February 22, 2017
    | Lee Rowland and Vera Eidelman
    In the wake of the Women's March and other anti-Trump demonstrations, some state lawmakers are trying to punish protesters.
  • Democracy & Government
    How the Left’s Long March Back Will Begin in the States
    February 7, 2017
    | Theo Anderson
    Progressives’ answer to ALEC is helping to build power from the ground up.
  • Money & Politics
    Conservatives Plot Course in State Capitals
    January 9, 2017
    | Robert Faturechi
    Meeting in private, enthused activists promise that the growing Republican dominance in state government will unleash a wave of laws to cut business taxes, restrict unions and expand school privatization.
  • Money & Politics
    This Week in Political Money
    October 14, 2016
    | John Light
    Our weekly roundup of money we're following...
  • History
    Michigan's 'Unsung Genius of the Super PAC Age'
    August 18, 2016
    | David Daley
    Karl Rove and Frank Luntz might be the Republican operatives everyone recognizes, but this unknown state strategist ran the gerrymandering playbook starting in the 1970s.
  • Money & Politics
    The Trouble For Democrats That's Not Spelled T-R-U-M-P
    July 27, 2016
    | Kathy Kiely
    While the party has been making history at the national level, it's losing ground in the states.


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