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'Time Is of the Essence': After Wisconsin Fiasco, 150+ Civil Rights Groups Urge Congress to Protect 2020 Elections

An employee at the Utah County Election office puts mail in ballots into a container to register the vote in the midterm elections on November 6, 2018 in Provo, Utah.

Rights Advocates Demand National Attention to 'State of Emergency' in Mississippi Prisons, Where 12 Inmates Have Died In Less Than a Month

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Parchman Prison is a torture chamber and we cannot afford to be robbed of one more human life at the hands of Mississippi's state corrections system," said Rep. Ayanna Pressley.

Groups Call It 'Ludicrous' and 'Offensive' to Let Impeached Trump Continue Right-Wing Takeover of Courts

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"We cannot allow a president who demanded foreign interference in our elections...

'Unfit to Serve': NAACP Delegates Vote Unanimously for Trump Impeachment

Jon Queally, staff writer

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D—Michigan) addresses the NAACP's (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 110th National Convention at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan on July 22, 2019. (Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images)

"We will make sure," said president and CEO Derrick Johnson, "that the NAACP is...

Urging Congress to Support Medicare for All, Groups Declare Universal Healthcare 'A Racial Justice Necessity'

Citing Harm to Public Education, Bernie Sanders Calls for Ban on For-Profit Charter Schools

Civil Rights Group Says Senate Report on Election Interference Shows Russia 'Taking a Page Out of the US Voter Suppression Playbook'

The Sanders Institute's Gathering Was About Saving the World, But It Was Not About Bernie Sanders

'Our Democracy Is Sick': Progressive Groups Join Forces to End Corporate Sabotage of the Common Good

284 Members of Congress Just Got an 'F' on Their Civil Rights Report Card

While Appearing to Struggle With National Anthem, Analysis Shows Trump Speaks at, Like, Fourth Grade Level

Citing Trump's 'Racially Hostile' Record, Critics Say He Shouldn't Attend Civil Rights Museum's Grand Opening

'Message Loud and Clear' Says NAACP After Latest Trump Snub

Rev. William Barber Says GOP Voter Suppression the 'Real Hacking' of US Democracy

Former NAACP Head Ben Jealous Enters MD Governor's Race Campaigning for Economic and Social Justice

Bernie Sanders, Nina Turner, NAACP Demand Workers' Rights in Mississippi

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We, The Heart of Our Democracy

If you just couldn't watch Hillary - and we get it - you might have missed the electrifying call by Rev. William Barber, head of North Carolina's NAACP and leader of its Moral Mondays, to embrace "a moral revolution of values" and continue fighting for progressive causes. Citing Jesus, "a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew" - and only briefly referencing Clinton - Barber proclaimed, "We must shock this nation with the power of love. We must shock this nation with the power of mercy."