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  • Letters From an American
    The Result is not in Doubt
    November 9, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Despite Biden’s win in the Electoral College and his win of 4.4 million* and counting in the popular vote, Trump insists — without evidence — that there has been fraud and will not concede the election.

  • Letters From an American
    Countdown
    October 24, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    This version of our government is not popular. Republican senators who will vote for Barrett represent 14.3 million fewer Americans than the Democratic senators who oppose her confirmation. Schumer today warned his Republican colleagues: “The majority has trampled over norms, rules, standards, honor, values, any of them that could possibly stand in its monomaniacal pursuit to put someone on the court who will take away the rights of so many Americans.”

  • 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.

  • Inequality
    'We' Versus 'Me': Suffrage Centennial Exposes Vote Gap in Black and White Women
    August 25, 2020
    | Errin Haines

    Black women were left in the wilderness for nearly half a century, as White women claimed a suffrage victory and largely abandoned the fight.

  • Letters From an American
    John Lewis: Thank You, Sir. May You Rest in Power.
    July 18, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    July 17, 2020 Tonight, just before midnight, we heard the news that 80-year-old Georgia Representative John Lewis has passed away from pancreatic cancer. As a young adult, Lewis was a “troublemaker,” breaking the laws of his state: he broke the laws upholding racial segregation. He organized voting registration drives and in 1960 was one of the thirteen original Freedom Riders, white and black students traveling together from Washington D.C. to New Orleans to challenge segregation. “It was ...

  • 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.
  • 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
    Calling Out the Kobach Commission for What It Is
    September 25, 2017
    | Emma Olson Sharkey
    An activist calls on Americans who care about voting rights to urge their state election administrators to refuse to cooperate with the Pence-Kobach Commission.
  • Inequality
    Court: TX Republicans Discriminated Against Minority Voters
    August 17, 2017
    | Ari Berman
    This is the seventh time courts have found Texas guilty of intentional discrimination since 2011.
  • Justice
    Trump Tears Down LBJ's Great Society Piece by Piece
    August 16, 2017
    | Christina Greer
    How the Trump election commission could corrode our civil rights from within.


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