On June 3, Business Forward President Jim Doyle and Spitfire Strategies Director Annabelle Gardner hosted a media training session on best practices when speaking to the media about the anti-corruption and voting rights provisions of the For the People Act. They also
— by Stephen Wolf and edited by David Nir. Daily Kos Elections Voting Rights Roundup email In May, Donald Trump created a “Voting Integrity Commission” that we knew was purely a pretext to promote voter suppression nationwide. Now this panel has launched its
Call: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Phone: 202-224-3542 Call: Sen. Dean Heller Phone: 202-224-6244 Senator Jeff Sessions is a dangerous man. First he built a career on opposing civil rights. Now he’s mere days away from becoming America’s next Attorney General. Sessions is
A single court seat can change the landscape of our liberties — and this election could determine four. — by Mary Frances Berry When 95-year-old Rosanell Eaton first registered to vote in the Jim Crow South, she was forced to pass a
This November — this is what a win might look like: Hillary Clinton wins, and becomes the country’s first woman president Democrats take back the Senate A Democratic Senate confirms Hillary’s pick to fill Antonin Scalia’s vacant seat on the Supreme Court, breaking
Within minutes of the news breaking that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had died, Republicans said (more specifically Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said) they would refuse to consider ANY Obama nominee to replace him, no matter what. Such a lengthy vacancy
Supreme Court to decide if states should be required to draw legislative districts based on eligible voters or total populations — by Nadia Prupis, CommonDreams staff writer The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard a case on redistricting that could have a
Three bills that threaten OUR rights to vote were introduced this month at the Nevada Legislature. They are unwarranted legislation in search of a problem that doesn’t exist. We cannot let them become law! SB 169, AB 253, and AB 266 require voters
— by Roberta Lange, NVDems Chair The first hearing on one of legislative Republicans’ Voter ID bills just started in the Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee. This bill is the latest attempt by Republicans to make it harder for you to
Senate Republicans Must Stop Delaying Attorney General Confirmation — by CAP Action War Room It has been 124 days since Loretta Lynch was nominated to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General. In that time, the 50th anniversary of Selma reminded us that
