How do we defeat voter suppression tactics?
How do we defeat voter suppression tactics when they’re fueled by billionaires’ cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won over 50 years ago… READ MORE
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Strangling of John Lewis Voting Rights Act could be death blow for democracy
The strangling of the John Lewis Act by filibuster, unlike the overhyped For the People Act, could be the death blow to a democratically elected Congress. Even with its limitations, the John Lewis Act would’ve been a very powerful weapon. For example, the act would absolutely have prevented … READ MORE
Biden refuses to use political capital to bust the filibuster and save voting rights
Palast joins the By Any Means Necessary crew to discuss the blocking of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act by Senate Republicans, the history of the filibuster as a tool of racist disenfranchisement, Biden’s refusal to use political capital to bust it, and how Democrats’ inaction on issues such as voting rights contributed to their recent electoral defeats. … READ MORE
The Long History of Lines
Why long lines are a key trick in the GOP's election fraud book
When the only way you can win is by depriving people of their vote, long lines are a feature, not a bug of GOP election strategy. It’s no coincidence that the worst lines tend to be in young, poor and minority neighborhoods — in others words places where people tend to… READ MORE
We Don’t Have a Working Democracy
What happened, how we can fix it
Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the vote theft party’s started. They’re removing voters from rolls
How Do We Defeat Voter Suppression?
A Tribute to the Spirit of Selma
How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it’s fueled by billionaires’ cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 50 years ago
Here’s what we do now
A personal note by Greg Palast
Being right never felt so horrid. “This is the story of the theft of the 2016 election. It’s a crime still in progress.”
Trump's GOP Hitman Who's Stealing Your Vote
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Podcast
Listen to The Best Democracy Money Can Buy podcast with Greg Palast and Flashpoints’ Dennis Bernstein. This week they expose
Karl Rove’s Carolina Scheme Faces Justice
Updated from the original article published on TheMudflats.net
Ku Klux Kourt kills King’s Dream Law Replaces Voting Rights Act with Katherine Harris Acts
They might as well have burned a cross on Dr. King’s grave. The Jim Crow majority on the Supreme Court just took away the vote of millions of Hispanic and African-American voters
The Idiot's Guide to the Voting Rights Act
This month – as early as tomorrow – the US Supreme Court will tell us whether Black and Brown citizens have the right to
Will the Supreme Court Kill the Voting Rights Act?
Jim Crow is alive and well – and he has mounted a new attack on the law Martin Luther King dreamed of: the Voting Rights Act
