Trump’s Stealth Plan to Preserve White Electoral Power
Two days after Tropical Storm Imelda battered her district in Houston, state Sen. Carol Alvarado drove from its heavily Latino east side, past taquerias and signs for immigration attorneys, to another predominantly Latino neighborhood just north of the downtown skyline. Senate District 6 is shaped like a dragon whose head starts in the city’s industrial…
New York Wants to Make It Easier to Register to Vote
Staton Rabin/Zuma New York state just took a major step toward ensuring that all eligible citizens can exercise their right to vote. On Thursday, the state Senate passed a bill that would automatically register eligible voters upon interacting with state agencies, making voter registration a matter of opting out rather than opting in. Sixteen states…
Jim Jordan Is Lying About Voting Rights
Alex Brandon/AP Last week, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent an alarming email to his supporters. Jordan, who is one of Donald Trump’s most vocal defenders on Capitol Hill, warned that Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder is on the cusp of using the courts to “steal” his congressional seat and replace him with a “radical liberal.”…
The Three Lawyers Who’ve Purged Thousands of Voters
We’re looking back at some of our work from the past decade. This piece was originally published July 2017. Click the highlighted text below for updates, elaborations, and the story behind the story. Willie Miller was born in 1948 in Noxubee County, Mississippi, an agricultural community along the state’s eastern border named after a Choctaw…
GOP-Led Voter Purges in Wisconsin and Georgia Could Tip 2020 Elections
Demonstrators rally at City Hall in Milwaukee against Wisconsin’s new voter purge on December 16.Fight For 15/Twitter Republicans are intensifying efforts to aggressively purge the voter rolls in Wisconsin and Georgia before the 2020 elections, potentially giving their party a crucial advantage by shrinking the electorate in two key swing states. On Friday, a state…
Misinformation Efforts Over Kentucky Election Could Be Playbook for 2020
This article was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The right-wing radio personality took to Twitter not long after the polls had closed and it seemed the Democtratic candidate had prevailed in the excruciatingly close race…