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More than 200,000 Missourians have signed a petition supporting a referendum to block Republicans’ new gerrymandered congressional map. But GOP officials are working to thwart them at every turn.
This week, Democracy Docket readers were first to learn about three important new developments in Republican voter suppression.
Another week, another Republican gerrymander rammed through at the expense of minority voters.
A former red-state chief election official who has falsely claimed the CIA stole the 2020 contest is playing a key role in the conspiracy theory-fueled effort by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the vote.
In red states across the country, GOP lawmakers and officials took a range of steps to move forward with their gerrymanders. Together, the moves suggest that, even leaving the Supreme Court aside, Republicans have abandoned any remaining political or moral qualms about drawing maps that maximize their advantage — with potentially dire consequences for the future of fair elections.
People Not Politicians Missouri, the group behind a ballot measure that would let voters veto the GOP-controlled legislature’s new gerrymandered congressional map, is laughing off a federal lawsuit filed to block their efforts.
Missouri state officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at blocking voters’ efforts to invoke their constitutional right to veto the state legislature’s new gerrymandered congressional map.
Missouri voters are organizing to use their constitutional right to veto the GOP-controlled state legislature’s new gerrymandered map. But while they cleared one administrative hurdle Wednesday, the Republicans who run the state are trying to place yet another stumbling block in their path.
This week, a federal court in El Paso, Texas has been hearing a case that could determine who controls Congress after next year’s elections. And Democracy Docket has been one of the very few national news outlets to cover it.
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe (R) signed House Bill 1 into law, approving a Trump-ordered gerrymander made to guarantee Republicans a 7-1 advantage in the state’s U.S. House delegation.
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