August 4, 2026 by Taifa Smith Butler The VRA is gutted, not gone. But what still holds is not enough. Sixty-one years ago, Black Americans could not count on the ballot box to exercise their voice. They had the right to vote, guaranteed by the 15th Amendment nearly a hundred years prior, but the machinery of the Jim and Jane Crow South produced a century of systematic exclusion that rendered that right meaningless. Though this system of oppression was deeply entrenched and

by Kathleen Clyde, opinion contributor - 07/21/26 11:30 AM ET As Ohio returns to battleground status ahead of November’s midterm election, our state is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. In the span of just a few weeks, we’ve gotten an up-close-and-personal look at how the fight over voting rights is evolving. The Republican-controlled statehouse has pushed legislation and a constitutional amendment that would make it harder for eligible Ohioans to vote while the FBI

At President Donald Trump’s urging, Congress is intent on passing an even more extreme version of the SAVE Act. But no matter what the far right calls these “show your papers” bills, its push to require Americans to show a passport or birth certificate to vote threatens to silence millions. Introduction and summary Congressional Republicans have rebranded the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act as the SAVE America Act, and supporters of the legislation are seeming

​​Jeremy Wang-Iverson, Gregory T. Moore | 22.02.2023 Over four decades, civil rights leader Gregory T. Moore has tirelessly worked to reform US voter registration laws. His goal is to safeguard the rights of racial minorities at the ballot box. We interviewed him about the ever-increasing threats to the 1965 Voting Rights Act and his views on the future of American democracy. For more than 150 years, the history of Black people’s right to vote in the US has been marked by bot