Legacy media paints Harmeet Dhillon as plucky underdog fighting ‘woke ideology’
To the legacy media, Harmeet Dhillon has spent her career as an underdog — bravely swimming against the liberal tide
Zachary Roth
As Democracy Docket’s managing editor, Zack steers our news coverage and provides editorial direction and oversight. A former national reporter at MSNBC digital and a former editorial director at the Brennan Center for Justice, he is the author of The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy.
This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s doomed anti-voting order, DeSantis spreads election lies — and Harmeet Dhilon for AG?
With his popularity plummeting, President Donald Trump took a major step this week aimed at grabbing control of U.S. elections. But in truth, the anti-voting executive order he issued Tuesday only underscored his weakness.
This week at Democracy Docket: SCOTUS hears a GOP voter suppression bid, on the ground in Fulton County, and a lawless MAGA sheriff
The anti-democracy onslaught continues apace. And we’re keeping you up to date on all of it.
This week at Democracy Docket: SAVE takes over the Senate, and DOJ’s latest epic blunder
This was the week when MAGA Republicans finally got what they’d been demanding for so long: A full Senate debate on the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump’s monster voter suppression bill.
This week at Democracy Docket: MAGA melts down over SAVE — and DOJ struggles with the email address field
MAGA’s push to ram through the most restrictive voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress is coming to a head.
This week at Democracy Docket: To pass SAVE, Trump targets trans people — while Texas Republicans try a voter suppression test run
President Donald Trump and his allies are doing everything they can — and we mean everything — to somehow get their monster voter suppression bill through Congress. And no one is covering this epic fight as closely as Democracy Docket.
This week at Democracy Docket: Election chiefs huddle to combat Trump’s meddling, and an illegal draft executive order aims to give him control of elections
The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by a chamber of Congress. The Department of Justice’s grab for state voter rolls. And a potential executive order giving President Donald Trump the power to take over elections — the Constitution be damned.
Trump ties Iran strikes to claims that Tehran interfered in U.S. elections
President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that his military strike against Iran may have been driven in part by claims that the country interfered in the last two U.S. presidential elections.
This week at Democracy Docket: Telling the truth about the SAVE America Act when legacy media won’t
As MAGA Republicans ramp up their push for the SAVE America Act, the legacy media is doing its best to treat the right’s lies about the bill as serious arguments.
This week at Democracy Docket: The worst voter suppression bill ever passed, and an FBI raid built on conspiracy theories
When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one.