Despite interest in overhaul, chamber would likely be a check
A rotating four-man team, middle-of-the-night wake-up calls and even a daily newsletter. In the 1960s, breaking a filibuster was hard—but it was still possible.
In his first speech as a US senator, the Rev Raphael Warnock warns Americans of a rightwing attack on voting rights. Here are his remarks.
Among the 16 senators in all who were part of the effort to overturn the presidential election, rank of lawyers and lobbyists among the top industry contributors to their campaigns, according to the latest data from FollowTheMoney.org.
"Do Senate Democrats want to keep the filibuster or do they want to pass comprehensive democracy, anti-corruption, and voting rights legislation to realize the promise of a multi-racial democracy?"
Volunteers and organizers with People's Action recently took part in phone banking during a virtual deep canvassing event. The focus: connecting with rural voters and others less likely to turn out for Georgia's Senate runoffs.
Georgia’s adoption of runoff voting was aimed at maintaining segregation by, as one advocate put it, preventing ‘the Negro bloc vote from controlling the elections.’
Winning the White House is absolutely crucial, but it’s just one piece of the fight to save our democracy and push a people’s agenda.
Mitch McConnell’s conduct of Trump’s Senate trial recalls the baleful history of southern racial injustice in the civil rights era
Letting the president get away with contempt of Congress will make the legislative branch as irrelevant as the Roman Senate
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