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How the Former Confederate Capital Slashed Black Voting Power, Overnight
Did Richmond violate the Voting Rights Act by adding thousands of White residents? The historic Supreme Court case foreshadowed today’s gerrymandering fights.
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Leila Barghouty
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Retropolis
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July 9, 2023
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A Post-Reconstruction Proposal That Would Have Restored Power to the People
Largely forgotten today, Albion W. Tourgée’s legislation could have prevented Moore v. Harper.
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Brook Thomas
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Made by History
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December 19, 2022
American Democracy Was Never Designed to Be Democratic
The partisan redistricting tactics of cracking and packing aren’t merely flaws in the system—they are the system.
by
Louis Menand
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The New Yorker
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August 15, 2022
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Gerrymandering's Surprising History and Uncertain Future
Both parties play the redistricting game, redrawing electoral boundaries to lock down power.
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Retro Report
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October 18, 2021
History Frowns on Partisan Gerrymandering
On the eve of a major redistricting case at the Supreme Court, a look back at what the nation's founders would have thought.
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Michael Waldman
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Cliff Sloan
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Washington Post
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October 1, 2017
Where Did the Term 'Gerrymander' Come From?
Elbridge Gerry was a powerful voice in the founding of the nation, but today he's best known for the political practice with an amphibious origin.
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Erick Trickey
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Smithsonian
on
July 20, 2017
Ahead of a Major Supreme Court Case on Gerrymandering, Here Are the Term's Origins
The word is two centuries old.
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Olivia B. Waxman
via
Time
on
June 19, 2017
The New Racism
A glimpse inside the Alabama State House suggests that the civil rights movement may have reached its end.
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Jason Zengerle
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The New Republic
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August 10, 2014
John Roberts’s Long Game
Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?
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Linda Greenhouse
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The Atlantic
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September 20, 2022
Colfax, Cruikshank, and the Latter-Day War on Reconstruction
Unearthing the deep roots of racialized voter suppression—and explaining how they shape ballot access today.
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David Daley
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The Forum
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August 3, 2022
American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread
Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.
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Vann R. Newkirk II
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The Atlantic
on
February 11, 2021
Who Counts?
A look at voter rights through political cartoons.
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Massachusetts Historical Society
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September 15, 2020
The Racism of Confederate Monuments Extends to Voter Suppression
GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.
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Karen L. Cox
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Karen L. Cox Blog
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June 30, 2020
The Supreme Court Is in Danger of Again Becoming ‘the Grave of Liberty’
Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.
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Eric Foner
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The Nation
on
July 1, 2019
The Forgotten History of How Abraham Lincoln Helped Rig the Senate for Republicans
The Great Emancipator has a lesson for today's Democrats about how to play constitutional hardball.
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Ian Millhiser
via
Think Progress
on
May 5, 2019
Fighting to Vote
Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.
by
Michael Tomasky
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New York Review of Books
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October 22, 2018
Re-mapping American Politics
The redistricting revolution, fifty years later.
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David Stebenne
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Origins
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February 5, 2012
How Do We Survive the Constitution?
In “Tyranny of the Minority,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the document has doomed our politics. But it can also save them.
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Corey Robin
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The New Yorker
on
October 4, 2023
How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy
Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?
by
Andrew Marantz
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The New Yorker
on
June 5, 2023
Republicans Have Won the Senate Half the Time Since 2000 Despite Winning Fewer Votes than Democrats
How the Senate has become a bastion of Republican minority rule.
by
Stephen Wolf
via
Daily Kos
on
February 15, 2023
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