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January 5, 2018
Trump’s Voter Fraud Crusade Is Just Beginning
The president's "election integrity" commission has died, but the threat of large-scale voter purges is growing.
October 19, 2017
The most underplayed story of the 2016 election is voter suppression.
August 10, 2017
Trump could convince Republicans to suspend American democracy.
June 30, 2017
Republicans governors are joining the Trump resistance.
May 11, 2017
Trump’s “voter fraud” commission is being led by the GOP’s self-deportation architect.
Kris Kobach of Kansas is set to lead the new "Election Integrity" commission. That should terrify everyone.
January 25, 2017
Donald Trump’s voter fraud investigation isn’t about uncovering voter fraud. It’s about gaslighting.
December 19, 2016
There is basically no such thing as voter fraud, part one million.
November 22, 2016
Donald Trump’s Government for White People
Liberals are underestimating just how aggressively Trump's White House will shape the electorate in ways that make it whiter.
October 21, 2016
The Trump campaign’s version of “exit polling” sounds pretty scary.
September 30, 2016
The GOP’s Next Target: Get-Out-the Vote Operations?
Indiana Republicans are hassling a liberal voter registration group, in what appears to be a bid to make its work seem suspect.
August 5, 2016
How Republican Efforts to Suppress the Vote Backfired Big Time
A string of judiciary defeats could result in a more devastating one: a Supreme Court hostile to voter ID laws.
August 4, 2016
Trump’s “Rigged Election” Argument Comes Straight From the GOP Playbook
He's maximizing the number of voters who'll reject the results of the election, with potentially calamitous consequences.
July 29, 2016
An appeals court ruled that North Carolina’s voter ID provisions “target African Americans with almost surgical precision.”
July 22, 2016
Republican-led voter suppression efforts just had a really bad week.
April 5, 2016
How White Georgia Republicans Are Derailing an African-American Candidate
Without the protections of the Voting Rights Act, local elections are a free-for-all.
February 29, 2016
For many southern states, Super Tuesday will be a voter suppression test drive.
February 26, 2016
Remember When Ted Cruz Helped Suppress the Minority Vote in Texas?
You should.
November 5, 2014
Just How Bad Was Voter Suppression This Election?
October 23, 2014
Chris Christie Just Exposed His Entire Party's Deceitful Voter Suppression Plan
October 20, 2014
The Supreme Court Isn't Likely to Stop Texas' Xenophobic Voting Laws

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