After delivering a floor speech in the Senate, Senator Maggie Hassan talks with Rachel Maddow about the looming partisan threat to U.S. democracy and her change of heart about the Senate filibuster rule that Republicans are hiding behind to allow state Republicans to compromise the integrity of the election process. Paul Waldman of the Washington … Read more
Now that hillbilly coal baron Sen. Joe Manchin has decided that he is comfortable with being the one man who would deny 330 million Americans what they want for Christmas – he is a villain the equal of the “Grim Reaper of Democracy,” Sen. Mitch McConnell – Senate Democrats pivoted on Wednesday back to pursuing … Read more
This has not received the attention it deserves in the Arizona political media, because voting rights, go figure. The Guardian reports, Arizona students stage hunger strike to urge Sinema to support voting reform: Since Monday, a group of 20 college students from the University of Arizona and Arizona State have been on hunger strike in … Read more
Another week. Another issue ad and warning from the ad creators and producers of the Lincoln Project. This week, the subject is Protecting American Democracy in the ad “Protect America.” In the ad, the narrator points out that the drive to expand voting rights through the American Experience has been hard and difficult. But it … Read more
Department of Justice Press Release: Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against the State of Texas to Challenge Statewide Redistricting Plans The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act against the State of Texas and the Texas Secretary of State, challenging the State’s redistricting … Read more