The Supreme Court Delivers a Rare Win for Black Voters in the South
A voter enters his polling place to vote on Election Day at the Martin Luther King Elementary School in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Nov. 8, 2022. Gerald Herbert/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, the Supreme Court allowed a lower…
More Than a Million Adults Have Legal Guardians. Seven States Won’t Let Them Vote.
Tèa Kvetenadze/New York Daily News/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last month, the Department of Justice released new guidance reaffirming disabled people’s right to vote, and the ways that their voting rights are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. “For too long,” the…
Mystery Group Announces $5 Million Fund to Pay for Reports of Election Fraud. What Could Go Wrong?
David Goldman/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Saturday, Fox News reported the launch of the Fair Election Fund, an apparently right-wing nonprofit that says it has a $5 million budget aimed at exposing election fraud. The project promises to pay election workers, organizers,…
The GOP’s Grand Plan: Minority Rule
Mother Jones; Macmillan; Nabil K. Mark/Centre Daily Times/AP It’s been said so often it’s almost become a cliché: Donald Trump poses a threat to American democracy. But his authoritarian impulses and hate-encouraging demagoguery are far from the only peril for the nation. Conservatives and Republicans for years have been striving on multiple fronts to weaken…
Churches Don’t Have to Be Accessible. That’s Bad News For Voters.
Mother Jones; Unsplash; Wikimedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Eli. Underwood likes the experience of voting in person, but they now have to vote by mail. Underwood went to a Detroit church to cast a ballot in the 2022 general elections, but chronic health conditions…
America’s Voting System Is the Worst, Thumbs Down
Frustrated by the two-party system? Polling shows you’re not alone, with more Americans than ever supporting the idea of a third party. But the winner of November’s presidential election will be either Biden or Trump, and voters weighing other candidates need to consider if a protest vote to end the duopoly might instead help end…