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October 23, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Favorite Voting Conspiracy Just Fell Apart
A new report just blew Donald Trump’s conspiracy about noncitizens voting to smithereens.
October 7, 2024
Edith Olmsted
The Shocking New Team Trump Member Encouraging Voter Fraud
Elon Musk’s mom has gotten in on Donald Trump’s scam.
June 18, 2021
Matt Ford
The Fatal Flaw in Joe Manchin’s Voting Rights Package
It starts with “F” and ends with “ilibuster.”
March 10, 2021
Matt Ford
Why Republicans Won’t Shut Up About a 16-Year-Old Bipartisan Report on Election Reform
The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. Today, it’s become a favorite weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.
October 30, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Quiet Suppression of Trans Voters
“Trans people don’t know if that polling place is going to be safe. We don’t know if any place is going to be safe.”
October 15, 2020
MagazineDavid Daley
Inside the Republican Plot for Permanent Minority Rule
How the GOP keeps cheating its way into power—and may get away with it again in 2020
August 12, 2020
PodcastThe Politics of Everything
The Women Who Still Can’t Vote
Why the work of the Nineteenth Amendment is far from over
August 10, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Unfinished Business of Women’s Suffrage
The women who remain locked out of the right to vote are the fractured legacy of a fractured movement.
August 2, 2019
Adam Eichen
The Case Against the Electoral College Is Stronger Than Ever
As has been true for over 200 years, the next president will be chosen by an eighteenth-century anachronism. American voters deserve better.
March 30, 2018
Matt Ford
Texas’s voter-fraud crusade sends a mother of two to prison for five years.
July 7, 2017
Eric Armstrong
Kris Kobach Is Preparing to Be the Next Trump
The Kansas gubernatorial candidate is a pure creature of the Trump era—and an indication of where the GOP is heading.
May 11, 2017
Moira Donegan
Trump’s “voter fraud” commission is being led by the GOP’s self-deportation architect.
Kris Kobach of Kansas is set to lead the new "Election Integrity" commission. That should terrify everyone.
August 5, 2016
Scott Lemieux
How Republican Efforts to Suppress the Vote Backfired Big Time
A string of judiciary defeats could result in a more devastating one: a Supreme Court hostile to voter ID laws.
August 4, 2016
Brian Beutler
Trump’s “Rigged Election” Argument Comes Straight From the GOP Playbook
He's maximizing the number of voters who'll reject the results of the election, with potentially calamitous consequences.
July 29, 2016
Saif Alnuweiri
An appeals court ruled that North Carolina’s voter ID provisions “target African Americans with almost surgical precision.”
July 22, 2016
Saif Alnuweiri
Republican-led voter suppression efforts just had a really bad week.
February 29, 2016
Steven Cohen
For many southern states, Super Tuesday will be a voter suppression test drive.
December 23, 2015
Brian Beutler
According to Republicans, the people trying to secure voting rights for minorities are the real racists.
December 23, 2014
Stephen Wolf
Why Is the U.S. Electorate So White? Because Our Voting System Is Broken. Here's How to Fix It.
October 23, 2014
Brian Beutler
Chris Christie Just Exposed His Entire Party's Deceitful Voter Suppression Plan

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