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This fall, Oklahoma will force students to study debunked 2020 election conspiracies under new social studies standards. Teachers say it opens the door to misinformation, and parents are turning to opt-out laws to resist.
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Trump is carrying out his mass deportation effort, which is just part of his goal to alter American identity, with tools that have never existed before.
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Facing a racial gerrymandering lawsuit, officials in Tarrant County, Texas, will hire the same right-wing law firm that drew the map to defend it in court. A Democratic county commissioner says the move is like “hiring the arsonist to put out the fire.”.
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The DOJ said it will appeal a judge’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting Perkins Coie, a law firm that has represented his political opponents, as well as plaintiffs in voting rights cases.
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Trump threatened to have NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani arrested over comments on ICE, suggesting he’s here illegally. Mamdani has faced racist attacks from GOP officials since winning the Democratic primary.
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NEW: "Republicans are once again asking the Supreme Court to strike down limits on how much parties can spend with candidates, and this time, the DOJ is backing them. But the fight isn’t over, and we are not powerless," Marc Elias writes.
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NEW: Facing a gerrymandering lawsuit, officials in Tarrant County, Texas will hire the same right-wing law firm that drew the map to defend it in court. A Democratic county commissioner says the move is like “hiring the arsonist to put out the fire.”
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Republicans in Wisconsin and Arizona passed bills restricting voting access. Wisconsin’s bill targets people with felonies, while Arizona’s cuts four days from early ballot drop-off. Neither state’s Democratic Governor has commented.
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Today marks 61 years since the Civil Rights Act became law. One part of the law protects voters from having their ballots rejected due to minor mistakes. Now, Republicans are trying to gut it. Read our explainer on the Materiality Provision (from 2022).
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SCOTUS delayed a decision in Louisiana’s high-stakes redistricting case, pushing it to next term. This signals the justices may be gearing up to further weaken the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial discrimination in voting.
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NEW: A through line of Trump’s second term has been to change who is, and who can become, an American. That now includes threatening to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship, building a citizenship database and pushing $170B for mass deportations.
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In an attempt to undermine the judiciary and erode due process protections, Trump’s DOJ sued all federal district judges in Maryland.
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ICYMI: Republicans are suing to block an Arizona law that lets some overseas citizens vote in the state. This new challenge fits into a broader Republican legal strategy to undermine overseas voting access.
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“The Republican-appointed justices are not just gerrymandering rights to produce their preferred outcomes. They are gerrymandering and gerry-rigging the law itself to track the political objectives of the Republican Party,” Leah Litman writes.
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The Justice Department appealed a ruling blocking Trump’s executive order targeting Perkins Coie, a law firm known for representing his political adversaries and plaintiffs in voting rights litigation.
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BREAKING: The DOJ defends Wyoming for its newly enacted law that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, arguing it has the authority to enact such laws even as critics say it will block eligible voters.
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NEW: Based on the latest rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court, the conservative majority is gerrymandering the law to serve Republican goals, Leah Litman writes.
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Republicans are suing Arizona to block a law that allows some overseas U.S. citizens to vote in the state. The RNC and state GOP argue the law violates the state constitution and unfairly benefits non-Republicans.
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NEW: Right-wing activists are planning a major push to pressure lawmakers to prioritize the SAVE Act by attaching it to must-pass legislation. The bill has been stalled in the Senate since April.
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NEW: Republicans are quietly working to install voting conspiracy theorists to local election boards in two of Georgia’s largest, bluest counties, laying the foundation to subvert the state’s 2026 midterm election.
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