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April 18, 2022
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Osita Nwanevu
Will the Democrats Fight to Save Democracy?
Legislative battles are fronts in a larger—and winnable—ideological war.
September 17, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Did Senate Democrats Strip Ethics Reform From Their Voting Rights Bill?
The upper chamber’s alternative to the For the People Act does not include any of that bill’s safeguards against the abuses of the Trump era.
September 15, 2021
Grace Segers
A Modest New Voting Rights Bill Gives Proponents One Last Shot at the Senate
Democrats scaled back their ambitions to create a measure that Republicans might support. If it fails, they’ll either have to break the filibuster—or give up.
August 24, 2021
Grace Segers
These Companies Say They Support Voting Rights Reform. So Will They Stop Donating to Mitch McConnell Now?
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others have called on Congress to pass the John Lewis Act, but for years they’ve pumped money to the man dedicated to blocking the bill.
August 16, 2021
Grace Segers
Democrats Continue Their Doomed Push to Save Voting Rights
A House subcommittee held a virtual hearing on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act on Monday, despite the looming prospect of death-by-filibuster.
August 3, 2021
Grace Segers
The Movements for Eviction Relief and Voting Rights Converge on the Capitol Grounds
Activists and lawmakers rally against congressional inertia.
July 13, 2021
Matt Ford
The Democrats’ Voting Rights Bill Is Dead
President Biden’s plan to protect the right to vote is to hope that someone else will come up with a plan to protect the right to vote.
June 22, 2021
Alex Shephard
Maybe the Democrats Don’t Care That Much About Voting Rights, After All
The party has sold itself as the only thing standing in the way of the existential death of democracy. But it’s not governing as if it believes its own warnings.
June 22, 2021
Matt Ford
How Dumb Does Kyrsten Sinema Think We Are?
The Arizona senator has offered the most illegible defense of the filibuster yet.
June 18, 2021
Matt Ford
The Fatal Flaw in Joe Manchin’s Voting Rights Package
It starts with “F” and ends with “ilibuster.”
June 7, 2021
Matt Ford
Joe Manchin Inches Closer to Trump’s Big Lie
Why is the Democratic senator from West Virginia echoing Republican talking points about American elections?
May 14, 2021
Matt Ford
Joe Manchin Finally Has a Good Idea
The key vote of the Senate might have a way to preserve voting rights from the GOP’s assaults and John Roberts’ legal opinions.
May 13, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
The Democrats’ Majority Is Hanging By a Thread. They Don’t Seem to Care.
With its razor-thin margins in Congress and an aging caucus, why isn’t the party acting with more urgency to protect voting rights from Republican assault?
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