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August 28 marks the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the mass rally that brought us Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech set the stage for the Voting Rights Act and other civil rights victories in Congress

A new study finds that Republicans could gain up to 13 seats in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas.

New Virginia Majority has expanded the state’s electorate by registering nearly 300,000 new voters and knocking on over 3 million doors to get people of color and young people out to vote.

The John Lewis Voting Rights Act is a valuable piece of legislation. So is the For the People Act. Both are destined to fail in front of the Supreme Court.

Proposed ballot collection restrictions in Arizona and Montana threaten Native Americans’ voting rights. Native and Indigenous American voters helped elect progressive candidates and now face new ballot “security” measures that make voting harder.

"No Senate rule supersedes people's constitutional rights," said the Democratic senator from Georgia. And shame on us if we're more committed to a Senate rule than we are to the principles of democracy," Senator Raphael Warnock added.

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