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CHICAGO — The Illinois legislature’s S.B. 927 redistricting plan, creates unconstitutional racially gerrymandered districts for the Illinois House of...
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Thursday, New American Leaders Action Fund (NALAF) announced its final three political candidate endorsements in 2021, bringing the total number of endorsements to 45.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate will hold a procedural vote next week on voting legislation, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has announced.
In a letter to his caucus...
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Early voting locations opened across Georgia on Tuesday, kicking off a three-week sprint before election day on Nov. 2.
Featuring the race for mayor of Atlanta...
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Officials in Georgia's most populous county, where election operations are already under review by the state, have fired two workers accused of shredding paper voter...
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Washington, D.C. (October 7, 2021)—Thursday, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing on the months-long,...
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Tuesday, the U.S. Senate version of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA) was introduced. A version of the bill passed in the House of...
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The U.S. Senate recently took another step toward passing transformative voting rights and election reform legislation, with Senate Democrats introducing the Freedom...
In the following piece, PeaceVoice director Dr. Tom Hastings argues for the abolishment of the antiquated Electoral College to improve democracy in America.
Conventional wisdom tells...
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The 2020 federal election drew the United States’ highest voter turnout in more than a century, breaking records despite the Covid-19 pandemic and efforts to undermine the...
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Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a co-sponsor of the Freedom to Vote Act, the pared-down version of the For the People Act, said Thursday that the legislation could...
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Arizona activists have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a potential 2024 Democratic primary challenger to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema if she does not...
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This week marks the 10th time that Americans have commemorated National Voter Registration Day, an occasion designed to encourage the one in four adult citizens who are...
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On September 24, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Pennsylvania endorsed Green Party candidate Kearni Warren, who is running for Chester City Council. SEIU...
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John Oliver excoriated the wave of voting restrictions passed by several states since the 2020 elections on Last Week Tonight, as well as the reluctance among prominent...
Milton, are you denying or finding it insignificant that the TPLF attacked a federal army base...
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