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Voter Suppression
the national interest
Oct. 24, 2022
Don’t Congratulate Republicans If Voter Suppression Fails The only way to defeat restrictive voting laws is to make a big deal out of them.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 18, 2022
By Jonathan Chait
2022 midterms
Dec. 1, 2021
Stacey Abrams Announces 2022 Run for Governor of Georgia Abrams will have a united Democratic Party facing Trump-divided Republicans, and perhaps a grudge rematch with voter suppressor Brian Kemp.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Sept. 15, 2021
Surrendering to Republicans on Voting Rights Won’t Save Democracy Joe Manchin seems to think voting-rights reforms have to be bipartisan to work. But letting Republicans run wild won’t encourage them to compromise.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Aug. 25, 2021
What Would the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Actually Do? The legislation, which just passed the House again, would slow down state voter-suppression measures. But it is opposed by nearly all Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
voter suppression
July 26, 2021
J.D. Vance: How About We Give Parents Extra Votes? The Senate candidate’s trollish proposal is just the flip side of Republicans’ usual thinking on voter suppression.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
July 24, 2021
Democrats Can’t Out-Organize a Gerrymander — or Outflank Joe Manchin Voting-rights advocates shouldn’t expect Biden to do the impossible in Congress, while Biden should understand there are laws you cannot out-organize.
By Ed Kilgore
Is It Finally Time to Begin Calling Trumpism Fascism? The abrupt lurch of MAGA into opposition to democracy and celebration of insurrection is a new development.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
July 8, 2021
Kamala Harris Unveils Another Fallback Strategy for Voting Rights Getting voters to the polls despite hostile state laws is a valuable Plan B for voting rights, not a mere a gesture after failure in Congress.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. supreme court
July 1, 2021
Supreme Court Smiles on Voter Suppression and Big Donors After showing caution all term, the conservative majority closed by eroding the Voting Rights Act and threatening campaign-finance-reform efforts.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
June 29, 2021
Bipartisan Voting-Rights Legislation May Simply Be Impossible The pious hopes of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema notwithstanding, we are in a historic moment, like Reconstruction, when one party is incorrigible.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
June 23, 2021
Democrats’ Voting Rights Push Stalled. It Was Still Worth It. The effort to enact the For the People Act was a smart investment that will pay off richly for Democrats.
By Ed Kilgore
Merrick Garland Unveils Plan B for Protecting Voting Rights As new congressional legislation stalls, the Justice Department will utilize the powers it already possesses to fight voter-suppression measures.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
May 30, 2021
Democrats Need a New Plan to Defend Voting Rights The outlook is dim for voting-rights legislation. DOJ enforcement and voter mobilization may be Democrats’ best shot for defending democracy.
By Ed Kilgore
Election ‘Audit’ Fever Spreads Beyond Arizona From New Hampshire to Wisconsin and even California, recounts are being used to supposedly vindicate Trump and justify voter suppression.
By Ed Kilgore
The Future Could Actually Be Bright for Republicans The GOP comeback will likely begin with retaking the House in 2022, then probably the Senate, and maybe the presidency.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
May 18, 2021
Is Joe Manchin’s Voting-Rights Campaign Serious? The West Virginia senator is calling for bipartisan action to restore the Voting Rights Act. But absent filibuster reform, it may not matter.
By Ed Kilgore
Tish James Wants In on Jacob Wohl Election Robocall Suit New York’s AG moved to join a federal suit over Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman’s alleged voter-suppression plot, seeking fines of $2.75 million.
By Nia Prater
2022 midterms
Apr. 21, 2021
After the Voting Wars, Who’s Likely to Turn Out in 2022? The net impact of laws to suppress or expand voting rights is unclear, and will compete with many factors affecting the level and shape of turnout.
By Ed Kilgore
georgia election law
Apr. 20, 2021
Trump Says Georgia Election Law Is ‘Far Too Weak’ The former president’s message to Republicans is that using election laws to screw over the opposition isn’t just acceptable – it’s mandatory.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Apr. 17, 2021
Jim Crow’s Ominous Lessons on Voter Suppression Republicans bristle at talk of Jim Crow 2.0, but there are clear echoes of the era of Black disenfranchisement in their drive for voting restrictions.
By Ed Kilgore
georgia election law
Apr. 16, 2021
Can Suppressing Votes Save Brian Kemp? Kemp is using Georgia’s new election law to heal a breach with Trump-loving conservatives but so far has drawn only a gadfly primary opponent.
By Ed Kilgore
republican party
Apr. 7, 2021
Why Republicans Think They Can Regain Power Without Repudiating Trumpism From the midterm precedents to the belief that Trump expanded the GOP’s reach, Republicans have a host of reasons to be complacent.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Apr. 3, 2021
The States Following Georgia’s Lead on Voter Suppression Similar voting restrictions could soon be enacted in key Republican-controlled states like Arizona, Florida, New Hampshire, and Texas.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Mar. 30, 2021
Georgia Trooper Claims Legislator’s Knock Raised Fears of January 6 Repeat Was Governor Brian Kemp really endangered by Park Cannon tapping on his door in hopes of watching him sign a controversial election bill?
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Mar. 30, 2021
Why Are Republicans Promoting Gratuitously Cruel Election Restrictions? Cracking down on food and water for voters standing in long lines is intended to be a cruel but effective way to reduce voting by Democrats.
By Ed Kilgore
Raffensperger’s Support for Georgia’s Voter-Suppression Law Won’t Save Him Georgia’s secretary of state blasphemed Trump, and that’s all that matters to his fellow Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
A Black Lawmaker Was Arrested for Knocking on the Governor’s Door Georgia state representative Park Cannon was handcuffed and forcibly removed from the statehouse while Governor Kemp signed a restrictive voting bill.
By Amanda Arnold
voting rights
Mar. 12, 2021
Churchy Republicans Attack ‘Souls to the Polls’ A crackdown on Sunday voting is one of the more hypocritical of the voting-suppression methods pursued by Georgia’s Christian right.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Feb. 25, 2021
Republicans Return to Old Voter-Suppression Playbook Trump shifted the focus to phony vote-by-mail fraud claims, but Republicans tried to limit all kinds of voting pre-2020 — and they’re at it again.
By Ed Kilgore
republican party
Feb. 24, 2021
Agonized Georgia Republicans Long for Herschel Walker to Run for Senate A battered and deeply divided state party bent on suppressing Black votes could use a Trump-friendly Black sports legend.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Feb. 18, 2021
State Republicans’ War on Voting by Mail Has Begun The GOP, which once championed the practice, is reintroducing restrictions abandoned years ago.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Jan. 29, 2021
Why Democrats Must Keep the Filibuster From Killing Voting Rights With red states racing to further restrict voting, some limited filibuster reform to allow voting-rights legislation to be passed is now essential.
By Ed Kilgore
We Can Tell a Better Story About Women’s Votes On an Election Day with voting rights in peril, history can be our blueprint.
By Irin Carmon
vision 2020
Oct. 29, 2020
Trump’s Voter-Suppression Strategy Is a Crisis (Even If It Backfires) Historic turnout doesn’t erase the threat posed by the GOP’s open contempt for the political rights of its opposition.
By Eric Levitz
Jacob Wohl Has Been Indicted for Voter Suppression Again Earlier this month, Wohl and his sidekick were charged with voter suppression in Michigan. Now they’ve been indicted for the same plot in Ohio.
By Matt Stieb
action item
Oct. 27, 2020
By Bridget Read
vision 2020
Oct. 23, 2020
Is Republican Voter Suppression Starting to Backfire? The same dynamic that led Wisconsin Democrats to turn out massively in the teeth of a pandemic could be fueling the surge in early voting.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 29, 2020
Trump Keeps Repeating These Ludicrous Attacks on Voting by Mail Some Trump claims are made up, others are exaggerations, and still others mistake safeguards against fraud for fraud.
By Ed Kilgore
voter suppression
Aug. 23, 2020
What You Can Do About Trump’s Attack on the Postal Service And the best practices for mail-in voting amid Trump’s funding cuts to the USPS.
By Claire Lampen
vision 2020
Aug. 13, 2020
In the 2020 Race, Uncertainty Is All Trump Has Going for Him Most of the developments that could produce a Trump comeback and win are beyond the president’s control.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Aug. 12, 2020
The Democrats Are Almost Certainly Going to Win the Popular Vote. Again. Soon popular majorities may take radical action to disrupt minority rule maintained through anti-democratic institutions and voter suppression.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Aug. 4, 2020
Kris Kobach Loses Kansas Senate Primary The abrasive nativist and vote suppressor — and Trump’s close ally — was defeated by Roger Marshall, a better prospect for holding an open GOP seat.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
July 21, 2020
Why Trump Can’t Count on COVID-19 to Suppress the Vote for Him Despite the pandemic, primary turnout has been strong, so Republicans wanting to hold down the vote will have to suppress it on their own.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
June 22, 2020
The Tulsa Rally Was a Really Bad Sign for Trump The fiasco in Oklahoma sent a lot of terrible messages about the president and his prospects for reelection.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
June 22, 2020
Are We Headed for a Voter-Suppression Catastrophe in November? Marc Elias, the Democrats’ top election lawyer, sees the potential for disaster.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
the body politic
June 12, 2020
Racism Doesn’t Blink The public performance of white supremacy is key to upholding it.
By Rebecca Traister
2020 elections
June 9, 2020
Voting Chaos in Georgia Another Bad Sign for November A surge in voting by mail, faulty voting machines, and inadequate staffing afflict a state that could be a crucial November battleground.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Threatens to Cut Off Funds for States That Expand Voting by Mail There’s no legal theory supporting presidential intervention in state election decisions, so Trump may just be preparing to challenge adverse results.
By Ed Kilgore
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