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History books have called my father an activist, a community organizer, a freedom fighter, among other things. But they don’t use a phrase that my dad has used to describe himself: a war general.

Felony disenfranchisement laws are rooted in the Jim Crow era and were implemented to suppress Black electoral power

We propose universal voting. All of us, as a matter of civic duty, have an obligation to shape our shared project of democratic self-government.

“Never has it been clearer that the U.S. Supreme Court majority will do anything it can to advance Republican interests, rather than the law, the Constitution and the will of the people"

His sense of purpose and vision for his life is unobscured and unencumbered. This is a man on a mission, the grandest and most noble of missions: to save a country and his countrymen from themselves, to insist that morality ought to dictate policy.

If the Trump Republican party succeeds in its effort to corrupt the vote and return its leader to office, what remains of democracy in the United States will be on life support. We must work now to make sure it never reaches that point.

You know the Rubicon has been crossed when the Supreme Court issues a conservative voting rights order so at odds with settled precedent and without any sense of the moment that Chief Justice John Roberts feels constrained to dissent.

There is still a lot of uncertainty about what the court will do. The decision could fall anywhere in between the two extremes laid out in this article. We’ll just have to wait and see; a decision could come down any day.

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