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  • RNC unveils ‘radical’ plan to upend voting in America

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  • Biden urges Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act

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  • 'I won't be intimated': Colorado secretary of state speaks out against 'violent threats'

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  • Cedric Richmond: Selma anniversary is a clear reminder of continued need to fight for freedom

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  • Assistant AG Kristen Clarke shares DOJ plans for combatting voter suppression

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  • Brand new report reveals widening voter participation gap due to gutting of Voting Rights Act

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  • North Carolina Governor slams Republican leaders for 'take over' attempts, voter suppression

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  • SCOTUS under scrutiny: Voting laws, criminal justice and civil rights on the line

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  • Kyra Sedgwick: 'Swing Left' helped me turn my despair into active activism and hopefulness

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  • Newark teens win right to vote in school board elections

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  • Report exposes the truth about red state voter fraud task forces

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  • New attack on Voting Rights Act threatens Black vote protections: ‘It’s a problem’

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  • Ideology or naiveté?: New attack on voting rights could test Roberts on racial reality

    08:52
  • 'No way to run a democracy': Court advances new attack on Voting Rights Act

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  • ‘Contrary to Supreme Court history’: Expert slams appeals court ruling threatening voting rights

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  • PA Democratic House Speaker: Voters don’t want ‘rights to roll back’

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  • GOP embraces Trump's Big Lie with Mike Johnson vote; brings threat to democracy inside the House

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  • GOP gerrymandering hits a wall in Alabama as court forces a fair map; Other states see hope

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TX Dem invokes grandmother's poll tax in voting rights push

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Texas State Rep. Senfronia Thompson recalls how her grandmother bought poll taxes in order to vote and talks about the “chilling effect” that the GOP provision allowing partisan poll watchers to have “free reign” to intimidate Black and brown voters: “We’re Americans like everybody else and we should have the same privileges as everyone to go and cast our votes.”