Recent reporting has made it all the more clear just how close we came to having the will of the American people overturned by politicians and accomplices willing to do anything to cling to power. What held back the dam? As journalist Barton Gellman explained in The...
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The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, February 14
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The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, January 31
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The Year in Review for Voting Rights: Five Achievements and Five Setbacks
2021 has been a historic year for voting rights policy. We tracked nearly 3,000 bills moving in all 50 states and D.C. this year, resulting in almost 300 new laws – both pro- and anti-voter. While voting rights advocates spent much of 2021 defending against attacks on...
Three Takeaways from the 2021 Elections
This year, expanded voter access in Virginia resulted in record turnout for an off-cycle election. Both Democrats and Republicans turned out in higher numbers than in 2017, the last gubernatorial election year, and a Republican victory refutes the claim that expanded...
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, November 22
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Movement Victories: Stopping the Bad and Highlighting the Good
As we wrap up the 2021 legislative sessions in most states, let’s take stock of our movement’s victories. Voting rights advocates and organizers successfully ensured that some of the most restrictive policies failed. They also moved forward reforms across the country...
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, October 25
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The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, October 18
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The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Tuesday, October 12
We’re back with a special Tuesday edition of The Markup due to yesterday’s observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. We’re glad to be with you again. Will you help get this weekly newsletter into more hands by forwarding it along? If you received this email from someone...