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As legislatures rammed through unfair redraws, Black elected leaders and voters tried to show the world how Republicans are rolling back their civil rights.
Voting rights organizations across the South Friday pledged to oppose the GOP’s efforts to rig congressional maps in its favor after the Supreme Court gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act last week.
The Alabama Senate gave final approval Friday to a congressional gerrymandering plan designed to strip Black voters of political representation and upend an active primary election — even though voters have already begun casting absentee ballots.
23 South Carolina residents testified against redistricting and moving the state’s primaries. No one spoke in support of either measure.
Democratic leaders harshly criticized the Virginia Supreme Court Friday after it threw out a special election in which voters approved the state legislature’s plan to redraw congressional districts and fight back against President Donald Trump’s wave of partisan gerrymanders in GOP-led states.
President Donald Trump’s gerrymandering war of 2025-26 has taken several twists and turns. But Republicans now appear poised to emerge with an advantage. That reality is taking shape after last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling spurred a slew of southern red states to start the process of drawing new GOP-friendly maps, and after Virginia’s high […]
The FBI questioned a senior election official in Wisconsin this week about the 2020 presidential election, indicating that the Justice Department may be expanding its efforts to probe and relitigate Trump’s loss.
The Virginia Supreme Court has approved a GOP bid to throw out the results of a special election in which voters approved a new congressional map proposed by Democrats.
The NAACP filed an emergency lawsuit Thursday seeking to block Tennessee’s new congressional gerrymander, arguing the GOP’s rushed effort to dismantle the state’s lone majority-Black district was not only racist but outright illegal under Tennessee law and the state constitution.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a series of laws Thursday to approve the GOP’s new congressional map that eliminates the state’s only Black-majority district and its lone Democratic seat.
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