Tag: voting rights
Congresswoman arrested during voting rights protest on Capitol grounds
“I stand in solidarity with Black women and allies across the country in defense of our constitutional right to vote.”
‘We’re staying out’: Texas state democrats who fled to D.C. tell...
“We’re not going to be bullied and intimidated by anybody, including the governor or our colleagues. We have a job to be the voice of our constituents.”
The GOP is trying to outlaw democracy
The goal (and duty) of every public official ought to be maximizing voter turnout—after all, the more Americans vote, the stronger our democracy.
‘His silence is breathtaking’: Biden under fire for going quiet on...
"Our democracy is in crisis and we need the president to act like it."
Supreme Court weighs voting rights in a pivotal Arizona case
The case considers two Arizona laws that place limits on how and when Arizonans can vote.
The time to secure voting rights is now or never
Unless the Democrats can rally to push through legislation that protects the right to vote now and into the future, elections may cease to matter entirely.
Trump’s Election-Fraud Big Lie assaults everyone’s voting rights, mandating punitive laws...
If a “loser” can offset his loss with lying bluster, then elections are mere puppet shows – and democracy withers.
Why disability rights advocates are pressing the Senate to allow an...
The push for voters with disabilities, and for overseas and military voters, pits civil rights activists against cybersecurity advocates.
Tell the Senate to pass the For the People Act
It's time we ask our Senators to take immediate action and protect the vote.
Voter suppression is an attack on democracy—and my faith
Make no mistake, this bill is about silencing voters of color and chipping away at our political power.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.