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During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” Senior National Correspondent Amna Nawaz on Tuesday, former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams stated that, “as a partisan,” she is worried that the various voting laws passed in several states could cause Democrats, who are

Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) said that “outrage” over Georgia’s new election integrity legislation “is not about civil rights, or our racial past, it’s about rigging elections in the future.”

During MSNBC’s coverage of President Joe Biden’s speech before Congress on Wednesday, host Rachel Maddow said Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) statements that Republicans support making it easier to vote and that Democrats are blocking police reform will be difficult to

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that if Democrats can’t come to a bipartisan agreement on voting rights legislation “everything will be on the table to get it done.” And that one

Wall Street firms, multinational corporations, and giant law firms are teaming up with the Brennan Justice Center, which is heavily funded by billionaire George Soros, to pressure states against reforms to their voting laws. 

Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton issued an ultimatum on Thursday, contending Congress must choose between preserving the filibuster or protecting voting rights for minorities. But doing both, she suggested, is an impossibility.

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Friday on her show “Deadline” that Democrats need to fight Republican state legislatures’ attempts to pass new voting legislation with a traditionally Republican “take no prisoners” attitude.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) “understands there is no way under the sun that we are going to sacrifice voting rights for Democrats or all Americans, civil rights

Former Secretary of State and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has joined the chorus of Democrats supporting the elimination of the Senate filibuster, arguing it should be done away with for “constitutional matters.” 

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said that President Joe Biden will do what it takes, with or without the filibuster, to pass voting rights legislation like H.R. 1 and H.R. 4. Co-host

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Friday the filibuster was “allowing for systematic racism in the country.”

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that President Joe Biden prefers not to make changes to the filibuster, but “he’s happy to hear ideas, and he is certainly not going to allow

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said that while he doesn’t know if President Joe Biden agrees that there should be a general exemption to the filibuster for voting rights

During their nightly handoff segment, CNN anchors Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo agreed that Republican lawmakers were forwarding voting bills that return to “Jim Crow.”

MSNBC’s anchor Nicolle Wallace said Wednesday during an appearance on “The ReidOut” that “any company” donating to Republican candidates “will be associated with racist, disenfranchisement of Black voters” because so far, there has not been Republican support for the Democrats voting legislation.

On Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) stated that “all options have to be on the table” to pass voting rights legislation like H.R. 1. Host Don Lemon asked, “H.R. 1…unlikely to pass without eliminating the filibuster. If that

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said that H.R. 1 “has a lot to do with redistricting. It has to do with financing campaigns. That’s got nothing to do with voting rights and

President Joe Biden Sunday released an executive order to expand the federal government’s role in voter registration, citing the “insurrection” on Capitol Hill as motivation.

Former lead strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign James Carville said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Republican philosophy was “God must surely want wealthy white people to be first in line to get the vaccine.”

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed H.R. 1, otherwise known as the “For the People Act,” which Republicans warn will compromise election integrity and ultimately lead to the federalization of U.S. elections. 

Democrat VP candidate Kamala Harris implied while questioning SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett that she is ignorant about race issues.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett stood up to hostile questioning on Wednesday morning by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) about her dissent in the Kanter v. Barr case last year, after he falsely claimed that she had described the right to vote as “secondary.”

Left-wing groups in CA back Proposition 17, which would give felons the right to vote, even those who committed crimes like rape and murder.

NBA superstar LeBron James told USA Today on Sunday, that black people’s votes don’t count.

LeBron James’ voting advocacy group plans to recruit thousands of poll workers in Democrat districts for the upcoming 2020 elections.

President Trump has appointed trailblazing voting rights attorney J. Christian Adams to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. 

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI)  stated that the fight for voting equality isn’t over and urged the Senate to hold a vote on H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2020. Transcript as Follows: “Good

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday said it would not overturn a federal appeals court’s decision that blocks some Florida felons from voting.

The District of Columbia Council has passed what is being referred to as emergency legislation to reform D.C.’s policing just weeks after George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police.

The far left, led by Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), are championing a reform measure dubbed the “BREATHE Act,” which contains a call to incentivize states to pass laws that expand voting access to undocumented people.

Iowa’s Republican Governor Kim Reynolds is set to give voting rights to about 60,000 convicted felons in time for the 2020 presidential election after meeting with the George Soros-funded ACLU, the NAACP, and Black Lives Matter activists. 

L.A. Lakers star LeBron James exclaimed that the long line at the polls in the Georgia primary election was an example of “racism.”

Former first lady Michelle Obama and her celebrity-backed voting “rights” group are supporting a vote-by-mail bill before Congress.

A group of non-citizens and city councilmembers rallied together outside City Hall to demand voting rights in local elections for all eligible legal immigrants in New York City, New York.

Up to one million non-citizens living in New York City may obtain voting rights for local elections if a plan by Democrat city councilmembers is approved.

A faction of New York City Council members are aiming to provide citywide voting rights to hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of non-citizens living in the five boroughs.