Voting Rights & Democracy Reform

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (142+ words) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration cannot change rules around mail-in ballots for the upcoming midterm elections. Democrat Gary Peters is happy about the ruling by the Supreme Court, but he doesn’t think the Trump administration will stop…...

2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (492+ words) The Republican nominee for the newly redrawn 9th Congressional District blamed his opponent, State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), after a Memphis City Council meeting erupted into shouting, clearing the chamber and reportedly sparking a fight in the hallway. “My opponent Democratic…...

8+ hour, 27+ min ago   (326+ words) Faith leaders gathered on a single West Omaha campus Tuesday to launch a bus tour aimed at getting Americans to the polls, a day after early in-person voting opened across Nebraska for the 2026 midterm elections. The “Vote Is Sacred” tour,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (445+ words) (The Center Square) — New Hampshire students will no longer be able to use a student ID card as proof of identity when they show up to the polls to vote after a federal judge upheld the state's new voter ID…...

4+ hour, 25+ min ago   (296+ words) The Louisiana Secretary of State’s office expects to restore the correct status for thousands of voters by Wednesday after a mishap during routine maintenance earlier this week switched them to inactive. “Our staff immediately identified the issue and began correcting…...

6+ hour, 33+ min ago   (510+ words) Financial freedom is often discussed in dollars and cents. At the Decatur Book Festival, Arian Simone, Stacey Abrams and Danita Knight framed it as something larger: the freedom to create opportunity, challenge inequity and make sure others can enter the…...

4+ hour, 37+ min ago   (997+ words) In 2020, after a summer of protests rocked US cities, the words “Black Lives Matter” went from the rallying cry of racial justice demonstrators to words lining the very roads along which they marched. After the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna…...

4+ hour, 40+ min ago   (911+ words) “Mel was really about coalition building,” says Holly Harriel, a lecturer in DUSP and the executive director of DUSP’s Community Innovators Lab (CoLab), which hosts the Mel King Community Fellows each year. “He wasn’t necessarily discipline-specific or issue-specific. If you…...

4+ hour, 43+ min ago   (295+ words) Democratic Reps. Grace Meng, Paul Tonko, Joseph Morelle, Greg Meeks and Adriano Espaillat, and the Legal Defense Fund’s John Cusick at a press conference following the shadow hearing on election security in Queens. Shenal Tissera Democratic members of New York’s…...

5+ hour, 3+ min ago   (299+ words) February 24, 2022 / 6:26 PM EST / CBS News In the wake of several states enacting further restrictions to voting procedures since 2020, most people do not think their state is making it harder for people to register and vote, but there are differences by…...