Tag: voting
How we stop a gerrymandering catastrophe
Our best shot at saving our democracy is right now. It’s time to act.
Mailed ballots boosted 2020’s turnout—will it work in 2022?
New research on the 2020 election confirms that mailed-out ballots boost turnout—especially when there are no bureaucratic hurdles for voters.
Key battleground states considering using digital ballot images to boost voter...
In Georgia, Florida, and Arizona, the GOP and Democrats are weighing a wider use of an essential election record to confirm the accuracy of controversial results.
Joe Biden’s voting rights strategy comes into focus
Laying down markers and filing lawsuits against states that cross lines.
Progressives sweep 2021’s municipal elections across Georgia
The grassroots organizing strategy that led to historic victories in 2020’s elections continued to boost voter turnout in communities of color.
The Georgia way: How to win elections
An oral history recounts the organizing that led to 2020’s historic presidential and senatorial victories in Georgia.
Progressives on Virginia loss: Corporate Democrats have only themselves to blame
The finger-pointing started days before the polls opened in Virginia, a state that has trended blue in recent years and that President Joe Biden won by 10 percentage points in 2020.
How young voters are fighting back against voter suppression
"Young voters have so much power."
The fight to protect voting rights enters the next round
"Nonviolent direct action and resistance should never be dismissed as merely symbolic."
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.
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Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties
The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media
The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. “Complicity” as Trump Meets Netanyahu Despite ICC Warrant
We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law.
The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.