Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for civil rights, testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Monday, and called on Congress to pass the voting rights bills: US Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke testified in front of a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing about voting rights legislation on Monday, as the House prepares to move forward a … Read more
The race among Arizonan pro-Democracy and Public Education activists over the last couple of weeks to gather 170,000 petition signatures by September 27 to block enactment of reactionary Republican laws designed to suppress the vote and defund Proposition 208 has gained momentum. Volunteers, largely through the umbrella organizations of Arizona Deserves Better, Stop Dirty Money, … Read more
If you want to know why the white Christian nationalist MAGA/QAnon personality cult of Donald Trump is working overtime to pass GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression and voter disenfranchisement laws, and will now engage in extreme gerrymandering in order to maintain its tyranny of the minority, today’s release of U.S. Census data holds the … Read more
After Senate Democrats approved the $3.5 trillion budget resolution, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer brought up a Motion to Discharge S. 1, the For The People Act. The Motion to Discharge S. 1 was also a party-line vote of 50-49. The anti-democratic insurrectionist Sedition Party remains committed to destroying American democracy with GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter … Read more
Apparently there has been some progress on the negotiations for revised voting rights legislation. The New York Times reports, Schumer is said to tell senators to expect votes on voting rights legislation within days. Senate Democrats will make another, likely futile [60 votes for cloture], attempt to take up voting rights legislation in the coming … Read more