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Today, July 26, 2021, leaders of the Poor People’s Campaign and their allies will engage in nonviolent direct action at U.S. Senate offices across the...
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The following is an announcement from the Poor People’s Campaign who on Monday, July 26, will be engaging in protest action to address Republican voter suppression.
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Democrats-- facing internal obstruction from conservative Democrats, like Sen. Joe Manchin, above---are failing in the war against Republican voter suppression, which is...
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One year after the death of the great civil rights icon John Lewis, a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers is following Lewis’s lifelong call for people to make “good...
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Yesterday the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in League of Women Voters of Indiana v. Sullivan (previously called Indiana NAACP v. Lawson), rejecting the...
ATLANTA — Today, the Senate Rules Committee held a rare field hearing in Atlanta, Georgia focused on the state’s new restrictive voting laws introduced by Republicans in the state legislature...
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Thursday, a new phase, in the emerging fight to secure voting rights for Black Americans and other non-white people, started when several voting rights activists, and Ohio...
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(ATLANTA) — The DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections (BRE) will reinstate the eligibility of all voters who had been purged from the voting...
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Tuesday, President Joe Biden delivered a speech on voting rights in Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center.
The following...
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Democrats announced their intention to leave the state (shown above on plane) Monday to break quorum in the Texas State Legislature special session...
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Texas Democratic lawmakers plan to leave the state to deny Republicans the quorum they need to convene a special legislative session, a dramatic move that is likely to set up...
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The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, Protect Democracy, and the R Street Institute last week published Partisan Election Review Efforts in Five States, a look at...
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WASHINGTON — The leaders of the nation’s top historic civil rights organizations released the following joint readout on their meeting today at the White House with President...
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(Austin, Texas) — Texas state legislators returned to the Capitol building Thursday to begin a special session, during which they will resume debate on SB7, the omnibus voter...
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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City after appealing to the political center and promising to strike the right...
Milton, are you denying or finding it insignificant that the TPLF attacked a federal army base...
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