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Supreme Court Allows Texas To Enforce The Most Draconian Voter ID Law in The...

By a vote of 6-3 The Supreme Court is allowing Texas' draconian voter ID law to be enforced for this year's election.

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Kansas Republicans Waste Taxpayer Money To Fly For Pleasure, Religion and...

While Republicans slash education, transportation, and social services, Republicans use a taxpayer-funded aircraft for personal pleasure.

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Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Vote Suppression Law

"North Carolina’s provisions deliberately target African Americans with...surgical precision...to depress Black turnout at the polls."

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Targeted By Police For Being Black Registered Voters In a GOP State

"People just do not understand why a sheriff is coming to their house to bring them a subpoena if they haven’t committed any crime."

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Republican Election Officials Fight Trump’s “Dangerous” Rigged Election Rhetoric

“It’s going to create a disturbance and, played out in polling places across the country, it has the potential to destabilize the election which is very, very dangerous."

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Standing Up to Donald Trump’s Vote Suppressing Thugs

Vote suppression is synonymous with a Republican Party that has put more energy into that effort than in developing policy to benefit people, or even a get out the vote effort.

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Trump Team Goes Full Racist in Defense of AG Nominee Jeff Sessions

To taint Cory Booker's testimony, Trump’s team presented the committee with a story accusing “black Democrats” of voter fraud.

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Trump’s Illegal Voting Lie Is Part of Larger Republican Attack On Democracy

There was a good reason Trump admitted being 3-million votes less “popular” than Hillary Clinton; it fostered his other dangerous lie to kill democracy.

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Opinion: That Moment When a Federal District Court Rules Texas Election Law...

"Republican lawmakers rushed the voter ID law without the usual committee analysis and debate... to provide an Anglo partisan advantage."

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Why Americans Who Believe in Free and Fair Elections Should Worry About Kris...

When it comes to vote suppression, Donald Trump and Kris Kobach belong to the same delusional cult. Both have a history of indulging in refuted conspiracy theories about voter fraud. Both extreme in...

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Americans See Voting Rights As Essential To Their Personal Sense of Freedom

When asked by Pew which freedoms they consider essential, 92% of respondents said freedom of speech and 91 identified the right to vote.

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Sessions Turns Previously Independent DOJ Into White House Surrogate

Several events, ranging from the House passage of several anti-immigration laws and Jeff Sessions’ partnership with Kris Kobach to suppressing the vote nationwide, mean the Sessions DOJ is just a White...

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Under Kobach’s Watch Kansas Tossed 3 Times the Ballots As Other Like-Sized...

Under Trump election commission appointee Kris Kobach’s watch, Kansas through out 3 times as many ballots as other similarly sized states.

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Desperate Kris Kobach Relies On Logical Leaps To Justify NH Voter Fraud Claim

The Trump Administration’s Election Integrity Commission pounced on a report to falsely accuse New Hampshire voters of “mass voter fraud”.

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Trump’s Election Commission Goes Off The Rails Looking At Mandatory...

Donald Trump’s election integrity commission held its second meeting on Tuesday, this time in New Hampshire. This was days after vice-chairman Kris Kobach accused New Hampshire voters of voter fraud in...

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Ignoring Facts SCOTUS Strikes Down Key Provisions in the VRA

This ruling gives us a lesson in political reality.  Republican governors and Republican controlled state legislatures will suppress the vote. Voting Republican means endorsing vote suppression. The...

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North Carolina Senate Passes the Most Draconian Voter Suppression Bill Ever

Today, the North Carolina state senate passed the most extreme vote suppression bill ever after a very generous 2-hour debate. The post North Carolina Senate Passes the Most Draconian Voter Suppression...

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Kiss Your Vote Goodbye: NC Senate Rubber Stamps Extreme Voter Suppression Law

North Carolina Republicans have rubber stamped a voter suppression law that some might say is more consistent with fascism than with a government of the people, for the people and by the people. The...

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The Obama DOJ Challenges Texas’ Voter Suppression and Redistricting Law

The DOJ announced has announced that it will challenge Texas' voter ID law because the law violates the Voting Rights Act as well as the 14th and 15th amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The post The...

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Judge Denounces His Own Ruling on the Constitutionality of Voter ID Laws

Judge Richard Posner says he got it Voter ID ruling wrong, acknowledges that the result of it is vote suppression. The post Judge Denounces His Own Ruling on the Constitutionality of Voter ID Laws...

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