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Voting Rights
Ahead of a consequential election, our newsroom is making a renewed commitment to writing about voting rights and the people who make our democracy function. Here’s how we plan to do that as part of our participation in the Advancing Democracy Fellowship.
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Sherrilyn Ifill urges voting legislation as suppression efforts come ‘fast and furious’
“I never had a case where I worried about the counting of the ballots, and whether there was going to be some subversion of the count. But now we see that that has become kind of standardized.”
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Women of color lead the fight for voting rights 101 years after suffrage
As the House prepares to consider the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, Black women remain at the forefront of the voting rights struggle.
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Texas Democrats to U.S. Senate: ‘Save our state, save our country’
The state legislators came to Washington to block a restrictive voting bill and deliver a message: ‘We’re passing the baton to you.’
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Justice Kagan warns Supreme Court has weakened voting protections at ‘perilous moment’
Her dissent is a civics lesson about voting in America when you’re not a White man.
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Stacey Abrams group activating tool for Georgia voters to check if they are about to be purged
Fair Fight Action is helping voters verify if they are on the list of the more than 100,000 voters whose registration could be canceled.
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Meet some of the women behind the walkout over Texas voting bill
Two women lawmakers share what happened behind the scenes when they helped lead Democrats off the floor of the Texas House.
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Sweeping voting rights bill stalls in U.S. Senate
Vice President Kamala Harris vows "the fight is not over" to pass the For the People Act.
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Black Voters Matter is heading back to the battlefield
Black Voters Matter is leading a coalition of national civil rights and grassroots groups on the Freedom Ride for Voting Rights starting Saturday.
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In Tulsa and beyond, Biden tasks Black women with fighting the legacy of inequity
Harris, Fudge and Rice are among the administration leaders tackling intractable and politically divisive priorities.
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Pandemic restrictions may impact the nursing home vote
Women account for more than two-thirds of the nursing home population, which faces challenges to voting due to various changes prompted by the pandemic.