Vote Suppression 
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SOURCE: Prospect Magazine
9/23/2021
The New Front in the War for Voting Rights
by Jim Zirin
The 15th Amendment empowers Congress to enforce the amendment and the right to vote with "appropriate legislation." With Republicans committed to vote suppression, the Democrats must act unilaterally.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/26/2021
These Restrictions Wouldn't have Passed Muster Before the Roberts Court Destroyed the Voting Rights Act
Election law experts agree that a host of new state laws would have failed the Justice Department's preclearance requirements under the pre-Shelby Voting Rights Act.
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SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
5/17/2021
How The Republican Push To Restrict Voting Could Affect Our Elections
Carol Anderson: “I think Shelby is going to go down in history the way the Plessy v. Ferguson decision has.”
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/31/2021
The Painful History of the Georgia Voting Law
by Jason Morgan Ward
The new wave of vote suppression bills, like the one in Georgia, reflect a less obvious but important aspect of Jim Crow law: the use of superficially race-neutral language to keep specific groups from voting. The danger is that courts today will similarly fail to see these bills for what they are.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
3/17/2021
The South's Jim Crow Barriers to Voting Rights are Going National
Columnist Hayes Brown says that it's only fitting that new Jim Crow-style voting restrictions are a national phenomenon; Thomas Rice, the minstrelsy performer who invented the Jim Crow character was a New Yorker who successfully peddled anti-Black caricature across the nation.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/5/2020
Trump’s Voter Fraud Yarn is Unraveling. But it can Still Help the GOP
Rick Perlstein suggests that the Republicans' unwillingness to condemn Trump's wild theories about a stolen election are part of a historical pattern of fear that if the electorate expands Republicans will be lose. The theories won't overturn this election, but they will be used to justify future restrictions on the ballot.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
11/3/2020
What Modern Voter Suppression Looks Like In Florida
by Julio Capó Jr. and Melba V. Pearson
"The result of legal maneuvering in Florida is a 21st-century version of Jim Crow, now matured into James Crow Esq. The intent — to restrict minority community access to the ballot box — is the same, but the methods of voter suppression have become more sophisticated."
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SOURCE: Slate
11/2/2020
A Giant Test for Election Law (podcast)
Election Law expert Rick Hasen joins "What's Next" to discuss the state of litigation over voting procedures as election day approaches.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/1/2020
My Party is Destroying Itself on the Altar of Trump
by Benjamin L. Ginsberg
"Proof of systematic fraud has become the Loch Ness Monster of the Republican Party. People have spent a lot of time looking for it, but it doesn’t exist."
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
11/1/2020
Rising Tide of Violence, Propaganda Reveal Tuesday’s Stakes for America: Freedom or Fascism?
The Philadelphia Police lied about rescuing a scared toddler during civil unrest when they had in fact beaten and detained his mother for hours without charges. Police in North Carolina tear gassed marchers to the polls. Will Bunch contends we should all be worried about a society where this can happen.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/29/2020
The Vote Suppression Tipping Point
Have decades of efforts to stop Democratic constituencies from casting ballots become flagrant enough to inspire revenge by voting?
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SOURCE: Library Company of Philadelphia
10/26/2020
Voter Suppression in the US, Feat. Jim Downs, Carol Anderson and Kevin Kruse (10/27)
Historians Jim Downs, Carol Anderson and Kevin Kruse discuss voter suppression in a virtual event hosted by the Library Company of Philadelphia, Tuesday evening at 6:00 PM.
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SOURCE: PBS
10/20/2020
Frontline: Whose Vote Counts?
Jelani Cobb investigates the Wisconsin primary election as a lens onto the ongoing struggle to protect voting rights.
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SOURCE: Democracy Now!
10/20/2020
“A Fire That Has Spread Across the Country”: Jelani Cobb on Voter Suppression in the 2020 Election
A new Frontline documentary on Wisconsin's 2020 primary election illuminates the nature of current attacks on voting rights and showcases the national nature of the ongoing battle to secure the ballot.
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SOURCE: WFSB TV
10/17/2020
Face the State: Professor Leah Wright RigeurDiscusses Voter Suppression (Video)
Leah Wright Rigeur, Harry Truman Associate Professor of American History at Brandeis University discusses the state of voting rights in Connecticut and nationally.
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
10/20/2020
Republicans: The New Confederacy
by David W. Blight
"There is no Republican majority in America, except on election days. It all depends on who votes and who is allowed to vote."
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
10/14/2020
What Do We Do About Voter Intimidation?
by Nicholas Grossman
"Americans can vote for any candidate they want. But they should be able to do so absent intimidation, and every vote should count."
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10/12/2020
My Memories of Voter Suppression
by Lawrence Wittner
After witnessing firsthand the depth of struggle needed to secure the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the author says the 2013 Supreme Court decision to gut the VRA and subsequent acts by state governments to suppress the vote "betray the most basic principle of democracy."
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SOURCE: CNN
10/2/2020
Trump's Call for Freelance Poll-Watchers Summons a Dark History
by Nicole Hemmer
In 1981, the Republican National Committee used threatening signs and deployed off-duty officers to polling places in Black and Latino neighborhoods to help win the New Jersey governorship. This is the first presidential election year since the decree expired, making Trump's call for supporters to "watch the polls" ominous.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/10/2020
In 2020, Voting Rights are on the Ballot
by Peniel Joseph
Black citizenship remains the best yardstick to measure the nation’s democratic health, and even before the coronavirus pandemic, the Black vote in large parts of the country remained imperiled.