Voter Suppression
The pair face felony charges for orchestrating thousands of robocalls in Black neighborhoods that discouraged mail-in voting during the 2020 election.
The Senate is gearing up for a September session focused on voting rights.
The law to restore the landmark Voting Rights Act provisions gutted by Supreme Court conservatives faces the same filibuster threat as other voting rights bills.
The current wave of voter suppression bills targets the Native vote that helped elect President Joe Biden and a Democratic Senate majority.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The anti-voter legislation that prompted Texas Democrats to leave the state has moved forward in spite of a marathon filibuster by state Sen. Carol Alvarado.
Texas’ Republican House speaker signed arrest warrants for 52 Democrats who fled the Lone Star state in protest of a restrictive voting rights bill.
The Right to Vote Act would allow voters to challenge any restriction of their access to the ballot.
Aside from the financial and human costs, it is impossible to organize when Republicans make that very act illegal.
Rev. William Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign is leading a 27-mile, multiday march against voter suppression, urging Congress to take action on voting rights.
GOP lawmakers in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are trying to circumvent Democratic vetoes as they prepare for 2022.