While Democrats defied historical trends in the 2022 midterm elections by blocking the Republican “red wave” that many pundits predicted would overtake…

Benjamin Barber
Interview on organizing for expansive voting rights legislation, the importance of grassroots organizing at the state level, and the urgent need for federal action on voting rights
The Freedom Ride for Voting Rights will kick off with a Juneteenth celebration in Jackson, Mississippi, and make stops in seven states, concluding with a June 26 rally in Washington, DC.
“The Whole System Needs to Be Indicted”
“I think the one thing that we’ve learned is that it’s important to connect with people’s most immediate conditions”
The Southern Poverty Law Center currently estimates that more than 1,700 “publicly sponsored symbols” of the Confederacy remain in place nationwide, including statues, flags, official observances, and place names
In six Southern states — Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia — more than 7 percent of the adult population is disenfranchised
Despite research documenting the serious problems they present for voting rights, aggressive purges of the voting rolls continue to be proposed in advance of the 2020 elections
Re-segregation is on the rise in American schools
The group is targeting 5 million voters nationwide, with a focus on nine key states