Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

Inside the 50-year campaign to roll back the Voting Rights Act.

In the five years since the landmark decision, the Supreme Court has set the stage for a new era of white hegemony.

Senate Democrats who won’t give up the filibuster to secure voting rights are fooling themselves.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

How voter suppression became a political weapon in American politics.

Largely forgotten today, Albion W. Tourgée’s legislation could have prevented Moore v. Harper.

A look at voter rights through political cartoons.

A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting—and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.

On the eve of a major redistricting case at the Supreme Court, a look back at what the nation's founders would have thought.

In the era of the voting wars, the right to vote is itself a subject of continued partisan, regional, and racial conflict.

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.

For centuries, voter fraud has been used as an excuse to restrict the vote.

Both parties play the redistricting game, redrawing electoral boundaries to lock down power.

Democracy is in trouble, but a lawless coup isn’t the real threat.

A new film shows how Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, stood up to a majority-white city council to push through infrastructure improvements for all.

The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. It’s become a weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.

Elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.

South Dakota has been called "the Mississippi of the North" for its long history of making voting hard for Native Americans.