by MCDC | Aug 17, 2013 | Ethics, Voter Rights
A tip-of-the-hat to Marilyn P. for alerting us to this story.. Republican operatives are charging forward with their efforts to sabotage the Federal Election Commission in its lawful obligation to police campaign abuses. The six-member commission is evenly divided...
by MCDC | Aug 11, 2013 | History, Issues, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
The Supreme Court’s activist conservative majority, in a 5-4 vote on June 25, threw out the provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which required states and localities (mostly in the Old Confederacy) to clear any changes in electoral law with the federal Department...
by MCDC | Aug 10, 2013 | Events, History, Virginia, Voter Rights
Within 24 hours of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the law requiring nine states to submit voting law changes to the federal government for pre-clearance, five (including Virginia) are already moving ahead with voter ID laws, some of which had previously...
by MCDC | Aug 9, 2013 | Ethics, Video, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
When was the last time you saw a front page headline about gerrymandering? Before the 2010 election, conservatives launched a plan to win control of state legislatures before the census. The idea was to be in power when national congressional districts were redrawn in...
by MCDC | Jul 24, 2013 | Citizens United, Civil Rights, Economy, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Farm Bill, Filibuster, Global Warming, Gun Reform, Health Care, Immigration Reform, Racism, Sequester, Social Security, Video, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
The history of America is a history of change. The history of Democrats is the history of change that matters for America. The reason we won in 2012 was because supporters like you were the most engaged in political history. As we move on to the elections to come, we...
by MCDC | Jul 19, 2013 | Civil Rights, Issues, Voter Rights
The Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing this week on the Voting Rights Act since the Supreme Court gutted the landmark civil rights law last month. The key witnesses were civil rights icon Representative John Lewis and Representative James Sensenbrenner,...
