by MCDC | Apr 5, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News, Voter Rights
Who’s to blame for the long lines at polling places in Maricopa County? “The voters for getting in line, maybe us for not having enough polling places…” – Helen Purcell, Maricopa County Recorder The Department of Justice (DOJ) has...
by MCDC | Mar 31, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Civil Rights, News, Voter Rights
21 States, including Virginia, have new voting restrictions since the 2010 election. None of them are intended to make voting any easier. View this document on...
by MCDC | Mar 29, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News, Virginia
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir and Jeff Singer, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, and Stephen Wolf. ● VA-02 : Perhaps no district better symbolizes the Democratic...
by MCDC | Mar 28, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Citizens United, Civil Rights, Equal Rights, Income Inequality, News, Voter Rights
A first-of-its-kind gathering in our nation’s capital is putting We the People back in charge of OUR democracy. Democracy Awakening — organized by Public Citizen, the NAACP, the Communications Workers of America, Greenpeace USA, People For the American Way, the...
by MCDC | Mar 28, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Civil Rights, Discrimination, News, Virginia, Voter Rights
On March 21, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Wittman v. Personhuballah about whether Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District, as drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2012, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The disputed map was...
by MCDC | Mar 23, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Health Care, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage, News, Opinion
Paul Ryan’s penance has not been matched by a broader effort to change the substance beneath the words. Ryan has long been the intellectual torchbearer of a public policy that would immediately hurt the same people he has decided to stop calling “takers.” For...
