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Freedom to Vote Act
July 18, 2023
Grace Segers
Democrats Still Don’t Have a Plan to Avoid a Voting Rights Filibuster
Congressional Democrats reintroduced the Freedom to Vote Act, which failed to pass last year.
April 18, 2022
Magazine
Osita Nwanevu
Will the Democrats Fight to Save Democracy?
Legislative battles are fronts in a larger—and winnable—ideological war.
January 20, 2022
Grace Segers
Hope and Despair on Capitol Hill as Democrats’ Voting Reforms Die by Republican Filibuster (and Manchinema)
The party is left mulling the way forward, given the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
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.
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