Marc Elias discusses major voting rights victory in New York.
The current presidential election is the most consequential so far — because in 2024, we get the democracy we vote for.
Prohibition Gets Started (in 1919), Slave Owners Get Nervous (1834), Swing Comes to the Opera House (1944), Repression Takes Practice (1934), Nazis Make a Reality of Wage Slavery (1934), Wilmington Occupation Ends (1969), Voting Rights Victory (1964)
These inspiring developments serve as powerful reminders that by working together in pursuit of progress, we can manifest meaningful criminal legal reform that makes our country more humane, more just, and more democratic.
What Election Day 2023 Says About Election Day 2024. A Historic Strike (and Win) for Auto Workers. A Look Back at the COVID-19 Pandemic. Democrats Seize on Winning Formula for 2024. Progressive Judge Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat.
Democracy was on the ballot this past Election Day — and it won
Exercising the right to vote in Mississippi (in 1963). Air travel revolutionized (1958). Feds can't prove their case (1918). Markets plummet (1973). A new way of walkin' (1923). Deadly influenza (1918). None dare call it mutiny (1971)
And why people of color are winning more seats outside of those districts too.
Fulton County DA Fani Willis threw some light on Pennsylvania - along with several other political swing states - in her 98-page indictment of former President Donald J. Trump over his efforts to void the 2020 presidential election and cling to power
Ms. Willis in trying to tell the full story, made sure the high cost paid by lesser-known figures was also recorded. Specifically, the indictment focuses on the outrageous accusations made against Ruby Freeman, the Atlanta election worker singled out
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