Above Graphic: From the Public Citizen report. Despite nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states, America’s largest corporations are just paying lip service while funding the very voter suppression Republicans. A new report (pdf) released Monday morning by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that during the 2020 election … Read more
The Washington Post editorializes Arizona Republicans’ desperate crusade to find nonexistent voter fraud: Arizona Senate President Karen Fann (R) says she is determined to “ensure the integrity of the vote” in her state. Which is supposedly why, five months after Election Day, following multiple credible audits that found no hint of substantial fraud, she insists … Read more
Chief Justice John Roberts has fought to undermine voting rights his entire career. Chief Justice Roberts’s lifelong crusade against voting rights, explained. Roberts dismantled much of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder (2013), in which he made the ridiculous assertion that “There is no denying, however, that the conditions that originally justified these … Read more
MLB will move the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft out of Atlanta as a consequence of Georgia’s new Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression laws, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Friday. MLB To Move All-Star Game Out Of Atlanta In Response To Georgia Voting Laws: “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes … Read more
New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer is an expert on the influence of “dark money” in our political system. She wrote the damn book on the influence of dark money. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. Mayer’s latest reporting is on the “Kochtopus,” the dark money radical … Read more