Update to Corporate Accountability: Defund The Chambers of Commerce: 72 Black business executives published a letter in The New York Times urging corporate leaders to speak out. Nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states: Nearly 200 companies on Friday joined in a strong statement against proposals that threaten to … Read more
In an homage to Star Wars, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom star in dystopian ad supporting voting rights legislation: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are urging Congress to pass voting rights legislation — from the future. Perry and Bloom starred in an ad released Thursday in support of the For the People Act, Congress’ voting rights bill. Set … Read more
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, the one that tried to take your health insurance away until the United States Supreme Court stopped him yesterday, is trying to make nice with the Trump Zone Cult base after he would not subscribe to their world view about the November 2020 Presidential election. In trying to get on … Read more
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) met with a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday to discuss voting rights, one day after he missed a Democratic caucus lunch where the group briefed senators. The Hill reports, Manchin meets with Texas lawmakers on voting rights: Manchin met with Texas state Sen. Royce West (D); Texas state Rep. … Read more
Ronald Browstein reports at The Atlantic, Democracy Is Already Dying in the States: While senator Joe Manchin is demanding that both parties agree on any further federal voting-rights legislation, a new study quantifies how completely Republicans have excluded Democrats from the passage of the restrictive voting laws proliferating in red states. In places such as … Read more