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July 1, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Trump on Legal Losing Streak After Birthright Citizenship
The Trump administration has lost three major cases in just 24 hours.
June 30, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Mike Johnson Accidentally Tanks Defense Budget Bill Over SAVE Act
Republicans revolted against Donald Trump’s signature legislation.
June 29, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
MAGA Erupts as Even Amy Coney Barrett Rules Republicans Went Too Far
Amy Coney Barrett joined the Supreme Court’s liberal justices in one very big decision on voting rights.
June 26, 2026
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Win McCormack
Marc Elias: The Stakes in November
The famed election lawyer sizes up where we stand.
June 26, 2026
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Transcript: Marc Elias on Trump’s Attempts to Subvert the Midterms
The election rights lawyer talks about the legal strategies that the administration and Republican governments have already tried, and what may lie ahead.
June 24, 2026
Finn Hartnett
U.S. Postal Service Bends the Knee to Trump on Vote by Mail
Postmaster General David Steiner says the USPS won’t deliver ballots if states don’t hand over their voter lists to Trump.
June 24, 2026
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The Most Important Court Cases in American History
These landmark decisions left an indelible mark on our society—some for the better, some for the worse.
June 22, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Judge Blocks Trump’s “Voter Database” of Americans and Their SSNs
A federal judge has ruled against the Department of Homeland Security’s error-ridden database.
June 17, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Swing State Republicans Deliver Trump Huge Blow on Stealing Seats
Governor Brian Kemp had called a special session to vote on new maps.
June 17, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Blows Up His Own Nominee’s Hearing Over Conspiracy Theory
Donald Trump has likely killed efforts to renew a key piece of intelligence legislation in the process, too.
June 15, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Finds New Way to Kill Efforts to Renew Key Spy Bill
Just when it looked like talks could open back up.
June 12, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
The FBI Just Raided a Pro-Democracy Group in an Act of “Intimidation”
“They had agents all across the state going to civil rights leaders’ and community leaders’ doors intimidating them.”
June 10, 2026
Rekha Kennedy
The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Decision Is Worse Than You Think
The high court’s
Callais
ruling is already being used to delete majority-minority federal districts. But its most catastrophic impact may be felt closer to home.
June 4, 2026
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Is Showing Its Boundless Contempt for Black Voters
In a controversial shadow-docket ruling, the high court’s conservative bloc has fully dismantled the constitutional protections of Black voters.
June 3, 2026
Right Now With Perry Bacon
Stacey Abrams: “This Is a National Project ... Not Just the South”
Stacey Abrams says that the erosion of democracy and Black power in the South won’t just stop there.
Video is available for this article
June 3, 2026
Right Now With Perry Bacon
Transcript: Stacey Abrams: “Everyone Needs To Be Concerned”
Stacey Abrams says that the erosion of democracy and Black power in the South won’t just stop there.
Video is available for this article
May 28, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Trump Judge Hands Him Major Win in Attack on Voting Rights
A Trump-appointed judge declined to block the president’s executive order limiting mail-in voting.
May 27, 2026
Perry Bacon
I Live in the South. Here’s Why I’m Constantly Thinking About Leaving.
Southern GOP pols are routinely stripping Black leaders and people of power and agency. Simply put, the South is not a democracy.
May 15, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Democrat Announces Resignation After State GOP Destroys His District
State Republicans aggressively redrew voting districts to eliminate the lone Democratic seat.
May 12, 2026
Right Now With Perry Bacon
Transcript: Trump and the Supreme Court Are Crushing Black Power
Political scientists Hakeem Jefferson and Jake Grumbach say that we are witnessing a massive rollback of Black political power through Supreme Court decisions.
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