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The Nation’s Landmark Voting Rights Law Just Turned 60. It May Not Survive Trump.

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On July 24, US Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Latina Democrat from Houston, traveled to Austin to testify before the Texas House against the mid-decade congressional redistricting plan pushed by Donald Trump that was designed to give Republicans five new seats in the US House. Garcia said Republicans were motivated not just by political expediency, but […]

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Fleeing Texas Was the Only Way Democrats Could Block Trump’s Plan to Rig the Midterms

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On Sunday evening, Texas House Democrats made the fateful decision to flee the state to block Republicans from quickly passing a new Trump-ordered redistricting plan that could give Republicans up to five new seats in the US House, rigging the midterms before a single vote has been cast. It’s a risky and expensive strategy for […]

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Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging a New War on Democracy

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Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterms became crystal clear on Wednesday, as Texas Republicans introduced a new congressional redistricting map that would give their party five new seats in the US House, making it much more difficult for Democrats to retake the chamber next November. The map is designed to give Republicans control […]

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Blame John Roberts for Enabling Trump’s Massive Power Grab in Texas

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To justify their brazen effort to redraw US House districts in Texas ahead of the 2026 midterms, state Republicans cited a Department of Justice letter alleging that four districts—all represented by Black or Latino Democrats—were “unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.” But on Tuesday, President Trump said the quiet part out loud, admitting that a “very simple redrawing” […]

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Texas Republicans Have a Brazen New Plan to Block Democrats from Retaking the House in 2026

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The state of Texas is currently mourning at least 120 lives lost due to horrific flooding in the Hill Country. But Texas Republicans appear focused on a different priority: re-gerrymandering their state to reduce Democrats’ chances of retaking the US House in 2026. After intense lobbying by the White House, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced […]

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Hudson Valley’s “No Kings” Rally: Protesting Dictatorship in a Key Battleground

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Close to four hundred people, many of them wearing plastic gold crowns, assembled in the Hudson Valley town of New Paltz, New York, on Saturday morning for one of the first “No Kings” rallies of the day. It was a large turnout for the town of roughly 15,000, which is part of a key swing […]

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Trump Is Weaponizing the Justice Department to Advance His Voter Suppression Plans

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Donald Trump has made false claims about voter fraud central to his political identity and issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order in March. Now he’s weaponizing the Justice Department to advance his voter suppression agenda. On Tuesday, in its first major voting-related lawsuit, the Trump Justice Department sued the state of North Carolina over its […]

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North Carolina GOP Judge Finally Concedes After Six-Month Effort to Steal Election Fails

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Six months after the November election, Republican state supreme court candidate Jefferson Griffin finally conceded to Democratic Justice Allison Riggs on Wednesday after his unprecedented effort to throw out thousands of votes and overturn Riggs’ win was rejected by a federal court. Two recounts affirmed Riggs’ 734-vote margin of victory after the election, but Griffin, […]

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Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks GOP Plot to Steal North Carolina Election

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The unprecedented GOP attempt to overturn a Democratic victory in a North Carolina State Supreme Court race suffered a major setback Monday night at the hands of a stalwart conservative judge who was appointed by Donald Trump. In a lengthy ruling, federal district court Judge Richard Myers rejected the effort by Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin […]

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A Massive Power Grab Could Help North Carolina Republicans Steal an Election

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Two weeks after the November 2024 election, the Republican-controlled legislature in North Carolina convened a lame-duck session for the ostensible purpose of passing a hurricane relief bill. But, with no public notice, they snuck provisions into the bill stripping power from the state’s incoming Democratic governor and attorney general and drastically changing how elections were administered. Most […]

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A Federal Court Just Blocked Key Parts of Trump’s Anti-Voting Executive Order

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A federal judge on Thursday blocked key parts of a sweeping anti-voting executive order issued by President Donald Trump in March. Voting rights advocates described the order as “an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression” effort that would upend how Americans register to vote, how they cast their ballots, and how their votes are counted. District […]

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House Republicans Are Set to Pass a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions

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Two weeks after Donald Trump issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order, the House of Representatives is set to pass a measure, the SAVE Act, that is described by voting rights advocates as perhaps the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress. It could disenfranchise millions of voters and would severely limit how Americans […]

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