Election 2018

'Watershed Moment in Election Law' as Judge Rules 'Modern Day Poll Tax' in Florida Unconstitutional

Advocates for restoring the voting rights of people with past convictions welcomed the ruling as "a powerful reminder that no one can trump the U.S. Constitution."

Jessica Corbett · May 25, 2020

Newly-Launched PAC Matriarch Aims to Send Working-Class Women, Often Ignored by Political Establishment, to Congress

Julia Conley · Nov 4, 2019

With 330,000 People on Georgia 'Purge List,' Rights Advocates Warn of Massive Voter Suppression

Julia Conley · Oct 29, 2019

'Knock Down the House': Netflix Drops Trailer Featuring Rise of Ocasio-Cortez

Jake Johnson · Apr 22, 2019

'A Poll Tax By Any Other Name': Florida GOP Undermines Newly-Restored Voting Rights For 1.4 Million People

Julia Conley · Mar 19, 2019

After Standing Ovation at Sundance, Ocasio-Cortez Says 'All Hands on Deck' Against 'Systemic Injustices' That Led to Trump

"We need to realize that our democracy does belong to us, and when we don't participate in it, when we don't invest in it, when we don't put our own energy into it, what we are doing is we are giving it away to somebody else."

Jessica Corbett · Jan 28, 2019

'Historic Moment': After Ballot Measure Victory Repeals Jim Crow Law, Voting Rights Restored for 1.4M Ex-Felons in Florida

Despite fears of delays stoked by the incoming Republican governor, "the single-biggest enfranchisement of voting rights since passage of the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution" took effect Tuesday

Jessica Corbett · Jan 8, 2019