In the morning, you have one assignment: go vote. And if you’ve already voted, call 5 friends and make sure they go vote too. Text them. Call them. Check on them. Spread the message. Spread the urgency. Raise your ✋🏾if you understand the assignment.

One of the things that makes me the most fearful for the health of our democracy is this bizarre behavior by the press in twisting stories to make Trump's activities fit within normal frameworks that are completely inappropriate for the circumstances.

“SCOTUS’ gutting of the Voting Rights Act is more than an attack on Black America. It is the check‑engine light for American democracy b/c every time this country weakens the protections built by Black struggle…it loosens the democratic foundations everyone stands on.”

Georgia: 866ourvote.org/state/georgia/ Alabama: 866ourvote.org/state/alabama/

The fight for our vote is more urgent than ever. Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais is a move to erase Black representation, but we won't let that happen. It's on us to stay informed, get involved, and demand change. Our power is in our unity and knowledge.

NEW — Alabama native, son of a civil rights movement pastor, and veteran journalist @solcrenshawjr.bsky.social attended the marches in Selma and Montgomery on Saturday to see up close the resurrected fight for Black rights. Read his moving and illuminating report:

The largest federal reparations fund in US history goes not to indigenous tribes or descendants of formerly enslaved people or interned Japanese-Americans — but to J6ers who smeared shit on the walls of the US Capitol and attempted to hang the Vice President.

Democrats should be saying anybody who takes this stolen money will see the government coming after them to claw it back.

The NYT's maps would hurt Black voters & are de facto GOP gerrymanders. The whole premise is flawed. It’s nonsensical that Dems would 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 a seat with "colorblind" nonpartisan maps—the GOP gerrymandered every state here except for AL & LA. Here's how nonpartisan maps might actually look. [Thread]

We're about to have a massive election night with primaries from coast-to-coast and *general* elections for the Georgia Supreme Court. We're out with our hot-off-the-presses preview of the many big races to watch.

Huge news: I’m so proud to have the endorsement of @petebuttigieg.bsky.social—a proven leader who believes government should actually work for people.

🚨 Recent court decisions should make it clear how vitally important JUDGES are. 🚨 TOMORROW: GEORGIA: VOTE FOR MIRACLE RANKIN 🚨 TOMORROW: GEORGIA: VOTE FOR JEN JORDAN --Donations go directly to the candidates --Nothing goes to me Donate today! secure.actblue.com/donate/state...

A great day in Montgomery, AL as thousands gathered under the theme “All Roads Lead to the South” - a rally to mobilize awareness & action in opposition to southern states racial gerrymandering to dismantle majority Black congressional districts after the SCOTUS decision in Louisiana v Calláis.

Keeping this false narrative alive is a corruption of public office. Audits and lawsuits have already answered this question.

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Voting Rights Act, currently under direct threat from the Supreme Court, “was conceived, crafted and passed in order to further realize American democracy,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “And it was, itself, the product of an explosion of democratic energy.”

"America was not a democracy until we passed the Voting Rights Act" A white oligarchy ruling the South based on disenfranchisement is what MAGA wants to return to - but we all need to say clearly, gutting the VRA is not a partisan attack but an attack on democracy, period.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Today in Montgomery, Alabama, thousands of people came together showing hope and resolve to chart the path forward for voting rights and freedom. Thank you @blackvotersmatterfund.org, @fairfightaction.bsky.social, National Coalition for Black Civic Participation, @legaldefensefund.bsky.social.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

The Voting Rights Act was gutted. We’re not staying silent. On May 16, we’re in Alabama for a National Day of Action. Selma → Montgomery. Faith → power → people. This fight is ours—and we’re finishing it. Sign on + toolkit: allroadsleadtothesouth.com

Virginia should just proceed with the map anyway tbqh 🤷🏾‍♀️ reinstate the map their damn selves

Corey Minor Smith of Canton, Ohio holds a “Black Voters Matter” sign while marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on May 16, 2026. Faith leaders gathered in Selma Saturday for a prayer event as part of the “All Roads Lead To The South” protests. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector)

TODAY: We’re joining Black-led civil and voting rights organizations for a national day of action, including a rally at the state capitol in Montgomery. We must use our organizing power to defend and reclaim the sacred rights those before us bled and died for: blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

My latest on Heads Up News: If you care about democracy, get fired up to fight white supremacy www.headsupnews.org/p/if-you-car...

great piece. please read if you have a moment: presswatchers.org/2026/05/its-...

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

Do you want a free ride to Montgomery on Saturday? Visit AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth.com or use the QR code. #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth

📣 In response to the Voting Rights Act being killed, I’ve launched a new fundraising page specifically to help Black Democrats get elected. Donate today. #BlackJobs26 #BlackSky #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/black...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Ten days before the Alabama primary election, the Supreme Court stripped Black voters of a congressional district they had won in court. I was not surprised. I was outraged. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/purc...

🚨BREAKING: A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent visited the home of Milwaukee County’s elections director earlier this week in an attempt to question her, the county clerk has said. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

We covered the Georgia GOP's new law that would make elections for DA and other offices nonpartisan—in just five blue counties around Atlanta. Oh, and all the DAs are Black women. But the precise way the law ensnares these counties hasn't gotten much attention. www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

TN legislators erased a majority Black voting district in 8 days. LA, AL, MS… this is NOT over! Join the fight because these are our rights, our voices, our power, our government and we won’t go back! #DayOfAction #VotingRights @blackpowerwarroom.com @civilrightsorg.bsky.social

White Supremacy Is an Antidemocracy Movement open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

THIS SATURDAY: Thousands march to Montgomery Advocates, everyday citizens from all corners of the country I'll be there : blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/ 👇 @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social -TN

Breaking: South Carolina Senate rebuffs Trump, declines to take up redistricting before midterms, preserving Jim Clyburn's majority-Black district South Carolina State Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey: "We are the most gerrymandered Republican state in the country already"

The president’s mental health is a global crisis.

btw THE ORIGINALISM TRAP written by *my friend* is a stressful as hell and intensely motivating read that is honestly a must-have for your library www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

NEW: NAACP on Supreme Court allowing Alabama to redraw map to dilute power of Black voters "We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow. Anybody who is alarmed by these developments—as everybody should be—better be making a plan to vote in November to put an end to this madness"

My statement on Georgia Senate Republicans' sham hearing:

A lot of people upset at the U.S. Supreme Court are screaming DO SOMETHING. A lot of people upset at the Virginia State Supreme Court are screaming DO SOMETHING. There are *2* Georgia State Supreme Court elections on Tuesday, May 19th. Here's YOUR chance to DO SOMETHING.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

The Roberts court is, above all else, racist. They don’t like the reconstruction amendments and they don’t like the laws that enforced them. There is no legal, constitutional or separation of powers principle here. It’s just racism. joycevance.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

The South is America's conscience. If you have ever wondered how you would have stood up against Jim Crow segregation, your time is now. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

Time for John Roberts to again sadly shake his head and tut-tut everyone for thinking the Court ever acts with partisan intent.