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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.
March 30, 2018
Matt Ford
Texas’s voter-fraud crusade sends a mother of two to prison for five years.
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.
October 23, 2014
Brian Beutler
Chris Christie Just Exposed His Entire Party's Deceitful Voter Suppression Plan
August 15, 2014
Brian Beutler
Ferguson Is a Microcosm of Our Racially—and Politically—Polarized Country
In the St. Louis suburb, the white ruling class has created de facto apartheid
July 26, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Texas's Next Governor Can't Wait to Fight Eric Holder
June 13, 2013
Molly Redden
Michele Bachmann's Potential Successors Are Almost As Loopy As She Is

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