A member of the far-right extremist group Oath Keepers, Mark Finchem has vowed to end early voting in the state and has called for the 2020 election results to be decertified. In Arizona Tuesday night, state Rep. Mark Finchem became the sixth Republican who denies the legitimacy of the 2020 election results to win a state […]
For decades, the contentious issue of abortion rights has motivated American voters from both parties. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week to overturn the 1973 decision guaranteeing women a constitutional right to abortion could have a defining impact on upcoming congressional midterm elections, when Democrats attempt to hold on to their narrow edge in […]
Democracy is “quite literally dying in the dark,” warned one commentator. of Wednesday morning, while much of the country slept, the Republican-dominated Texas House approved a heavily gerrymandered district map that critics have denounced as part of an anti-democratic and racist GOP power grab—one that right-wing lawmakers could try to replicate across the United States. [pullquote]”Democrats… could soon be […]
“Government, at all levels, should tear down barriers to the ballot, not build them as we are seeing in far too many places,” said Wade Henderson of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Voting rights advocates issued fresh calls Sunday to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and For the People […]