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https://youtu.be/IjlzXEtOnh8 “You can’t be racist and be a Christian! You all have gotta choose”: Ben Harper opens up about activism, racism and how police brutality “threatens democracy in a very specific way”
DOJ Opens Investigation Into Arizona's Primary Election Chaos
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 launched an investigation to find...
Supreme Court Shoots Down #GOP Vote Rigging Scheme
The Supreme Court unanimously defended voting rights in a decision today that upheld the principle of one person, one vote by ruling against an effort to use to total voters instead of total population to draw up legislative districts. The case was brought by Texas...
McAuliffe Vetoes Inequitable Immigration Bills
Both bills were stripped down during the legislative process. In his veto message McAuliffe said they were "stoking irrational fears" and that debate on the bills was "intended to communicate a sense that non-citizens are to be feared and should be treated as more...
Lo, In the Land of Indiana…
Think You Can Vote In the Next Election?
21 States, including Virginia, have new voting restrictions since the 2010 election. None of them are intended to make voting any easier.
What African Americans lost by aligning with the Democratic Party
Democratic lawmakers drafted civil-rights legislation that would challenge Jim Crow laws in the South while leaving de facto segregation in the North intact. When NBC News asked the civil-rights organizer Bayard Rustin why many African American communities rioted the...
Virginia Elections Morning Digest
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 Party's...
North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’ should be flushed
By Ann Telnaes The North Carolina legislature passes and Gov. Pat McCrory signs a bill which require transgender people to use bathrooms according to the sex on their birth certificates rather than what they identify with.
#DemocracyAwakens
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...
