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If you care about voting rights, you’ll want to pay attention to Texas’ Senate race this November. Ken Paxton is the GOP nominee in that race, and as Legal Content Editor Ashley Cleaves explains, he gives pro-democracy voters a lot to be concerned about.

South Carolina’s failure to redraw its congressional map to dismantle the state’s lone majority-Black district is no small victory, @marcelias.bsky.social said. “At least in that one state, for this one election, Black voters will continue to be able to elect their candidate of choice.”

"Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America." - @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas AG Ken Paxton will now face state Rep. James Talarico in the November general election.

There are no property ownership requirements to vote in this country. Yet, the Election Integrity Network does not want homeless people to be able to vote, Marc Elias said. “They are U.S. citizens, and they are as entitled to vote as anyone else,” Marc said.

If the Supreme Court rules in Trump’s favor in the birthright citizenship case, a U.S. passport will be the only way to prove citizenship. “If you don’t have [a U.S. passport], you’re not going to be able to register to vote,” Marc Elias said.

“The Callais decision was the worst decision of my lifetime,” Marc Elias said. Marc explains how Republicans will try to use the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act to delegitimize any community of Black voters electing their candidate of choice.

Trump wants $1.8 billion for a slush fund dedicated to victims of government "weaponization." But will the DOJ be able to ensure that those named in the Epstein files won’t be eligible? Sen. Chris @vanhollen.senate.gov (D-MD) pressed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the issue.

The Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act is compounded by the cultural effects that the ruling is already having. “[The decision] gave a permission structure to those people who want to destroy democratic norms,” Marc Elias said.

Efforts to erase Black voting power in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act are immoral. How do we fight against it? “We are going to stand up and call out every miscitation, every abuse of this case for other purposes,” Marc Elias said.

*slams laptop shut until Tuesday*

We need more voices speaking up to fight against the demolition of democracy in our country, Marc Elias says. “This is rolling back the foundation of what made America possibly a democracy, beginning in the 1960s. And yet, in most corners, there’s silence.”

In both Virginia and Alabama, the people have voted in special and primary elections. But the courts are deciding whether it counted. Democracy Docket Legal Content Editor Ashley Cleaves explains how the redistricting fights in these states are strikingly similar.

Marc Elias has repeatedly said one thing since Trump took office: “It’s going to get worse.” What can we do to fight back? Marc explains 👇

During this tumultuous time for democracy in our country, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is putting his faith in the American people. “Whose constitution is it? It doesn’t belong to the Supreme Court. It doesn’t belong to the federal judiciary. It belongs to us.”

The Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act was the worst opinion of @marcelias.bsky.social’s lifetime. “We are going to see Republicans…try to use this to try to delegitimize, to try to say it is illegitimate for any community of Black voters to elect their candidate of choice.”

Democracy has always been under attack in our country, @marcelias.bsky.social says. Now is not the time to back down. Now is the time to fight back. “If we give up now, if we just lose hope, then we are doing Donald Trump’s bidding.”

How do we fight back against partisan gerrymandering and pass meaningful reform in the United States? Voting blue, @marcelias.bsky.social says. “We need to gain power to use that power to restore democracy.”

If you’re angry about the gutting of the Voting Rights Act and the state of free and fair elections, you are not alone. @marcelias.bsky.social shares your ire. “Have people not learned that when you do this to Black voters, it turns out bad for democracy for everybody?”