In the 2016 general election a full three out of four of Americans between the age of 18 and 29 said they were interested in politics.
A defeat to Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature . . . A 2016study by The Sentencing Project estimated more than 1.4 million people living in Florida were ineligible to vote due to past felony convictions.
Black Americans’ relocation back to the south is changing voting blocs and making Democratic races more competitive. This month, for the first time, South Carolina registered a million voters of color.
The prevailing belief of the circumstances surrounding 14-year-old Emmett Till’s killing is that he was accused of whistling at a white woman. Yet, the truth is he was lynched as an act of voter intimidation.
Despite the tactics of voter suppression working against them, black people are one of the most stable voting blocs in the US
After a Republican bragged about cramming ‘Dem garbage’ into certain districts, a grassroots campaign has given the power to redraw political maps to the people
A GOP incumbent governor won’t admit defeat. Elsewhere, new voting systems underperform.
No thanks to the Supreme Court — but grassroots reform efforts, pro-voter court rulings, and new political dynamics in key states mean the next round of redistricting is shaping up to be a lot fairer than the last one.
We’re on our way to 500,000 in 2020.
As has been true for over 200 years, the next president will be chosen by an eighteenth-century anachronism. American voters deserve better.
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