Trump is breaking the law with his intra-agency efforts to cull protected personal information from millions of Americans to support his immigration and political motives, according to a lawsuit that privacy and voter advocates filed Tuesday in federal court.

A possible casualty of Trump's ridiculous Texas gerrymandering scheme 👇 Read more here: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

The anticipated legal battle over Texas' new controversial congressional redistricting map is set to begin in court this week. Read more here: bit.ly/489mKHM

JUSTICE SERVED: Unhinged MAGA MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed the election technology company Smartmatic with false statements that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge in Minnesota ruled Friday. Read more here: www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Effective language access is essential for ensuring that every voter can fully participate in our democracy. Demos' new case study examines how the Connecticut Voting Rights Act (CTVRA) has become a model for expanding language access beyond what federal law requires 👇

"There are 3 cases SCOTUS is set to rule on, in one of which a group of white voters sued Louisiana over its current congressional map, which has two majority-Black districts. They argue the map constitutes a racial gerrymander that dilutes the power of white voters." More: bit.ly/4nggsui

A solid majority (58%) favor allowing voters to cast their ballots by mail, but support remains much lower among Republicans than Democrats 👇

“Make it automatic, where as soon as they are completed with their process, probation and parole, or whoever it is that supervising them, sends off notification to the agency that’s handling it, say, ‘Hey, this guy has met all the qualifications.’ It should be automatic." Read more: bit.ly/3I7Cqkb

Voting rights groups in North Carolina are asking a federal court to compel election-denying lawyer Cleta Mitchell to testify in their challenge to a voter suppression law they say was designed to keep young people from voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Long hailed as one of the most important victories of the Civil Rights Movement, and American democracy itself, this achievement is in jeopardy, as Republicans levy attacks and work to dismantle the VRA through the courts." Read more here: www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

"Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill rightly claims that Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act 'forbids sorting voters by race.' That she and others want that law overturned so that so-called red states can then proceed to sort voters by race stands as another milestone in hypocrisy."

"With SCOTUS arguments scheduled to take place Oct. 15, there is considerable concern what remains of the 1965 law after its brutal evisceration in the Shelby County case will be dramatically weakened, if not legally revoked in its entirety, by the conclusion of the high court’s next term."

"Justices fundamentally hostile to the rights of voters place the court increasingly at odds with democracy itself."

"As we face mounting challenges to voting rights, the work of registering voters becomes something approaching an act of democratic resistance."

"The initiative is a significant break from decades of practice by Republican and Democratic administrations, which believed that doing so was federal overreach and ripe for abuse."

"This decision would prevent voters from challenging unfair maps and racially discriminatory voting practices not only in North Dakota, but also in the six other states under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Circuit: Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota."

"The Voting Rights Act gave teeth to the 15th Amendment’s promise that no American could be denied the right to vote because of race." Read more here: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/louisiana-voting-rights-act-race-redistricting-rcna227767

We may well see the elimination of the 11 Black-majority districts — all Democratic — in GOP-controlled Southern states 👇 Read more here: https://truthout.org/articles/the-supreme-court-asks-why-it-shouldnt-gut-the-voting-rights-act/

Native American voters and tribes urged the justices to overturn an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that stripped voters and organizations of the ability to bring cases under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — the law’s core protection against racially discriminatory voting laws.

The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways 👇 Read more here: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trump-administrations-campaign-undermine-next-election

Senator Merkley nails it!

“Rural people will have problems, women will have problems, some military personnel will have problems and some people from tribal lands will have significant issues trying to vote,” Suzy Johnson of LWV said.

The case could strike a major blow to the landmark civil rights-era law 👇 Read more here: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/27/louisiana-callais-scotus-redistricting-voting-rights-act-00532223

"The state of Texas is only 40% white, but white voters control over 73% of the state's congressional seats. It's quite obvious that Texas's effort to redistrict mid-decade, before next year's midterm elections, is racially motivated." - Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP

"We cheat ourselves if we think of Louisiana v. Callais as only, or even principally, a Supreme Court story. It’s the story of the U.S. in this time. If the court has lost its mooring, it will take the rest of us with it."

GREAT NEWS: U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco said the Legislature would have to draw a majority-Black or near-majority Black Senate district in the Montgomery area. https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/22/federal-judge-alabama-senate-map-violates-voting-rights-act/

A post from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth showed his support of a fringe evangelical Christianity that is gaining more traction in the Republican Party 👇 More: https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/08/20/whos-questioning-womens-right-to-vote/

“The notion that everyone deserves equal access to the ballot, that everyone deserves equal access to elections, that one person ought to mean one vote, and that there ought to be some measure of political equality has never really sat well with the political right in this country."

GREAT NEWS: A federal judge found the electoral map dilutes the power of Black voters 👇 Read more here: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/mississippi-supreme-court-map-violates-voting-rights-act-124793025

HEADS UP: The right-wing U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument in Callais v. Landry — the high-stakes Louisiana redistricting case that could upend the Voting Rights Act (VRA) — on October 15.

"A few years ago, the idea that women shouldn’t have the vote would be seen as an absurd stance, close to conspiracy theory. But in recent years, as far-right stances become more mainstream and so called 'traditional' gender roles reemerge as a cultural talking point, it feels much more dangerous."

"The conservative court has subjected the law to death by a thousand cuts over the years — and now is poised to kill it completely on its 60th birthday."

Once a fringe warning, the threat to women’s right to vote is now out in the open—and in the halls of power.

A truly frightening post from unhinged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth showed his support of a fringe evangelical Christianity that is gaining more traction in the Republican Party.

The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, reintroduced by Sen. Raphael Warnock, wouldn’t undo all the damage done by the Supreme Court. But it would renew the promise of the VRA, restoring preclearance, stopping voter purges for inactivity, and ensuring people can still seek justice in court.

Unhinged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a video espousing misogynist, right-wing views that women are subservient to men and shouldn’t be able to vote 👇

Texas Republicans' plan to carve out five new, potentially GOP leaning congressional districts threatens "millions of Texans' voting rights," warns Democratic Rep. Greg Casar.

U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, is marking the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act by reintroducing a 2007-era proposal to establish a private right of legal action for people who have been subjected to voter deception.

"The 1965 law, a rare and profound act of consensus, has been hollowed out. We cannot forget the power Dr. King saw in the right to vote."

"The bottom line: Voter suppression efforts now target Latinos, Asian Americans, and young voters, alongside Black communities."

A new report shows Black Alabamians face greater odds of losing and not regaining voting rights under state felony laws 👇

“Voting rights are preservative of all other rights,” Sen. Warnock said at a press conference announcing the bill’s reintroduction. “The democracy is the very house in which we live. It is the framework in which we get to fight for the things that we care about.” Read more here: bit.ly/4fr4083

Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock (Ga.) and Dick Durbin (Ill.) are set to reintroduce the Senate version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025, which would replace the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Watch here: bit.ly/44SK9uW

Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the Voting Rights Project for the ACLU, said she wasn’t surprised by the ruling given the decisions in the earlier cases 👇

"AG Pam Bondi has already turned the DOJ into a government-staffed vehicle for Trump’s political objectives. The once proud guardian of voting rights has jumped head first into voter suppression litigation and is already participating in 17 voting and election cases."

Right-wing justices Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch - in their zeal to crush voting rights - dissented Thursday from the court’s decision to halt an outlier federal appeals court ruling that would have further limited the Voting Rights Act 👇

GOP lawmakers in Texas are using a special session to attempt to lock in the party’s majority in Congress by means of weakening or eliminating Democratic districts in the state. Democrats have vowed to fight the gerrymandering moves tooth-and-nail. Watch here: thehill.com/video-clips/...

The National Urban League credits the VRA with the “true birth of American democracy.” But the government under Trump has “set fire to policies and entire departments dedicated to protecting civil and human rights, providing access to an equal education, fair housing, safe and effective healthcare."

The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block 👇

Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar warns that a right-wing move to redraw Texas congressional districts will undermine democracy in the Lone Star State and beyond 👇