“Poor and low-income people are saying that we can no longer wait for voting rights, living wages, healthcare, immigration reform, and so much more.” With the rallying cry “Get It Done in ’21,” low-wage workers, caregivers, and activists from across the country converged on Washington, D.C. Monday to demand that Sen. Joe Manchin and other […]
“Democrats in the Senate can have a functional democracy or the filibuster, but not both.” Voting rights advocates on Tuesday condemned Senate Republicans for blocking debate on the For the People Act, a sweeping pro-democracy bill, in a widely anticipated 50-50 vote that bolstered progressives’ arguments for combating GOP obstruction by killing the filibuster. The Democrat-led House passed a version of the popular bill […]
WASHINGTON – When rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to stop Congress from certifying the presidential election of Joe Biden, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser lacked the authority to call in the D.C. National Guard to help police. That episode has given new momentum to the District of Columbia’s long-running effort to […]
Alarmed by persistent barriers to voting in Alaska and across the nation, U.S. Senator Mark Begich this week introduced strong legislation to safeguard the voting rights of Alaska Natives and Native Americans. The bill, the Native Voting Rights Act of 2014 (NatiVRA), provides the resources and oversight necessary to ensure that every citizen, regardless of ethnicity or […]