#voter-suppression

#voter-suppression

On Tuesday, Virginia State Senator Jennifer McClellan won a special election for the state's 4th Congressional district, becoming the first Black woman to represent the state in Congress.She beat conservative pastor Leon Benjamin to fill a seat left vacant by Donald McEachin, who died of colorectal cancer in November of 2022.

The SF Board of Supervisors overturned their own 2016 ban on doing business with states who've passed anti-LGBTQ legislation, restrictive abortion laws, and engaged in voter suppression, concluding the ban did more harm than good.If you followed the months-long $1.7 million Noe Valley toilet saga, you may recall that the way SF supervisors lowered the cost of the project was by taking a donated, pre-fab outdoor toilet from a manufacturer in Nevada.

The Democrats on Jim Jordan's insurrection protection committee were really unprepared for Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger yesterday, failing to call out their repeated false claims.One of the most interesting details came when Taibbi described that someone besides Elon Musk invited him to have unfettered access to a company under a consent decree.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 I Have A Dream speech is too often reduced to just that one emblematic line: a hazy wish for a distant, racism-free future.In reality, King's speech, like many of his orations, was blistering and urgent, dealing not in dreams but cold, hard realities about America.A new project from TIME Studios, released on Thursday Jan. 12, allows users to explore the relevance and power of King's Dream speech sixty years later through virtual reality.

Economic justice advocates in Georgia are mobilizing ahead of next month's runoff U.S. Senate election in the state, working to convince low-income residents who lack access to healthcare and living wages to back Democratic Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock.The Georgia Poor People's Campaign announced late Wednesday that it is launching a statewide canvassing, text-banking, and social media campaign to reach out to millions of Georgia voters who are low-income, calling the push their "If We Ever Needed To Vote, We Sure Do Need To Vote Now Tour."
"It ain't over yet, and every vote must be cast to count," said the group.

It slipped out quietly this month in the brouhaha of the approaching budget.The regulations listing acceptable ID documents that will allow people to vote at elections were not included in the shameless voter-suppression bill that passed through parliament this year.Are you surprised that the list includes all kinds of acceptable ID held by older voters, but that ID the young might have has been struck out?