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Voting Rights Act
Voting Rights Act news and analysis from The Nation
April 8, 2019
After the 2000 election, when Al Gore won the popular vote, Democrats were slow to respond, seeming to lack a basic sense of what was at stake. Not anymore.
January 31, 2019
He has a long history of championing voting rights—and of bluntly challenging the “despicable” voter-suppression schemes of Republicans.
November 12, 2018
But in southern Brooklyn, they showed they can still swing an election.
November 5, 2018
A joint Investigative Fund–Nation exposé shows that language accommodation for voting (or the lack thereof) could swing 20 congressional elections.
June 20, 2018
The Husted decision fuels the GOP voter-suppression campaign—but citizens have a chance to fight back in this fall’s midterms.
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May 22, 2018
A new strategy attacks both Trump’s economic heists and the influence peddlers swarming the White House.
May 2, 2018
A district court ruled against the state’s voter-ID law in April—but with midterms looming, the fight for Native voting rights isn’t over yet.
July 12, 2017
The same Republicans who benefited from Russian hacking in the 2016 election have been suppressing the vote for years.
July 5, 2017
In an unprecedented show of bipartisan resistance, 48 states are refusing to hand over private voter data to Kris Kobach.
June 26, 2017
The Fair Representation Act, introduced today in the House of Representatives, would allow everyone to have a say in our democracy.
