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Turns Out Fighting Fascism Helps You Live Longer

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Terri Williams, who lives in northern Texas, started volunteering as a high schooler in the mid-1970s—at first for Planned Parenthood, educating people about birth control. In retirement, she hasn’t stopped. Linda McMahon’s 2024 nomination as President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, a prelude to attempts in dismantling the department, led Williams to double down on […]

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This Is All John Roberts’ Fault

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Imagine: you are at a baseball game, but something is off. When the blue team is at bat, the umpire calls every pitch a strike. But when the red team is up, the umpire won’t call a single one. When a red batter hits the ball into a blue player’s glove—out!—the umpire sends him to […]

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SCOTUS Is Behaving Like “Arm of the MAGA Trump Presidency,” Says Legal Expert

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Lisa Graves discusses the case before the court on tariffs, as well as voting rights and John Roberts’s legacy.

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Racial Justice Campaigners Were Prop 50’s Army in the Field

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On Tuesday, California voters passed Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s congressional redistricting proposal in response to Texas Republicans’ gerrymandered map, by a sweeping 28-point margin. As I reported in October, high-profile Democratic politicians—including former President Barack Obama—were front and center in an advertising blitz to pass the measure, which would tilt five seats in the […]

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Amid Government Shutdown, Republicans Are Showing Us What Autocracy Looks Like

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They are anticipating that vast structural changes will ultimately keep them in power, regardless of how they legislate.

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Michigan Republicans Want to Share Full Voter Roll With Trump Admin — Unredacted

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Michigan is one of several states being sued by the DOJ for refusing to share unredacted voter rolls with the agency.

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Trump Tells GOP Lawmakers to “Get Smart” and Eliminate Early Mail-In Voting

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“The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms,” one journalist wrote in response to Trump’s comments.

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Republicans Are Making One of the Most Gerrymandered States in the Nation Even More Rigged

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The GOP-controlled North Carolina legislature, which has already gone to extreme lengths to undermine the will of the voters, is set to pass a new Trump-inspired gerrymandered congressional map this week that is expected to give Republicans one additional seat heading into the midterms. It will make one of the most gerrymandered states in the […]

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Republican Justices Appear Poised to Destroy What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act

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The Supreme Court, with its six-to-three Republican-appointed majority, appears ready to kneecap what remains of the Voting Rights Act’s protections for minority political representation. During Wednesday’s oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais, at least five conservative justices seemed ready to enfeeble the seminal civil rights law such that it will no longer stop white majorities […]

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SCOTUS Case Could Destroy Voting Rights Act and Cement GOP Control of House

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If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is dismantled, the impact will reshape political power across the US, experts say.

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Missouri GOP Gov Approves New Maps Likely to Strip Dems of House Seat in 2026

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Polling shows bipartisan opposition to states engaging in voluntary mid-census redistricting.

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The Justice Department Is Ramping Up Trump’s Election-Rigging Efforts

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On Thursday evening, around the same time the Justice Department overruled career prosecutors in order to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division sued six states—California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania—for failing to hand over their full, unredacted voter registration lists. The new legal actions signify […]

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