The media paint states as red, blue or purple at a time when our states need election systems that are red, white and blue.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: President Biden’s speech on voting rights was a sermon, not a battle plan
The soaring rhetoric in his address Tuesday needs to be followed by practical politics.
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Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Republican state voting restrictions are ‘un-American,’ Biden says
The president appears to tacitly acknowledge the fading hopes for voting rights bills in Congress, saying he would launch a nationwide campaign to arm voters with information on rules changes and restrictions before the 2022 midterm elections.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Texas Democrats’ D.C. escape plan has limited staying power
The escape from Austin to Washington denied Republican Gov. Greg Abbott the quorum to vote on legislation in a special session he called after Democrats walked out of the regular one in May.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Texas Democrats leave state to try to stop Republican voting bill
When Democrats last fled the state 2 decades ago – in an ultimately failed attempt to stop new Republican-drawn voting maps – state troopers were deployed to try bringing them back.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Voting rights legislation should have passed, but not for reasons you think
The proposal would have outlawed House gerrymandering and ended dark money – provisions worth pursuing in any compromise versions.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
VP Harris says Democrats will spend more to register voters as Republicans push to limit voting
Harris said the party would spend $25 million on top of $20 million already announced for a party program called “I Will Vote” that began in 2018.
Posted inNation & World
Voting rights ruling increases pressure on Democrats to act
The 6-3 ruling Thursday on a case out of Arizona was the second time in a decade that conservatives on the Supreme Court have weakened components of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Simple microeconomics shows the fallacy of most voter fraud
The potential marginal benefit of casting one additional vote is not worth the risk of prison and a hefty fine for committing a crime.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Collins takes wrong side on voting rights
The Maine Republican left no room for compromise as states pass voter-suppression laws.