National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://www.aribermanauthor.com/
Trump's speech was a total dud but he's still going to use it as pretext to interfere in midterms. In particular the discredited allegations of Chinese interference are intended to lay groundwork for fake national emergency. That's the real threat www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s primetime speech was a dud. He could still use it to interfere in the midterms.The allegations of foreign interference by China are intended to create a fake national emergency.www.motherjones.comLikely a wildly inflated number, given that none of these states handed over their voter rolls & DHS provided no evidence to support such claims
PoliticoDHS says it found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states
SCOTUS destroying Voting Rights Act Trump openly planning to interfere in midterms DOJ threatening to prosecute election officials I discussed how all these threats to democracy fit together on @nprfreshair.bsky.social today. Please listen www.npr.org/2026/07/08/n...
Do you know where your birth certificate is? Journalist warns of new voting barriersThe rules of the midterms are being rewritten, from redistricting to campaign money. Mother Jones journalist Ari Berman explains why President Trump seems "obsessed with the mechanics of voting."www.npr.org"Every major study has shown that mail-in voting is safe and secure, but the fact that four justices signed on to Trump’s crusade to get rid of mail-in ballots is highly disturbing and could embolden the president to attempt to take even more drastic steps to make it harder to vote"
Ari BermanGood news that SCOTUS preserved mail ballot grace periods but very disturbing that 4 justices led by Alito amplified Trump's conspiracies about mail voting, including debunked claims of "voter fraud" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Good news that SCOTUS preserved mail ballot grace periods but very disturbing that 4 justices led by Alito amplified Trump's conspiracies about mail voting, including debunked claims of "voter fraud" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
In a rare blow to Trump, the Supreme Court just saved mail-in voting—for nowThe surprise victory is unlikely to slow down the administration's assault on voting rights.www.motherjones.comBreaking: SCOTUS in 5-4 ruling by Barrett upholds Mississippi law allowing ballots to be counted if postmarked by Election Day but received after. Major disaster averted. A ruling the other way would've disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters in 2026 www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.govPoliticians who brazenly push to disenfranchise Black voters need to pay a political price everywhere they try it
Stephen WolfBig news: Georgia Republicans have dropped their plans to pass new gerrymanders targeting Black Democrats today over fears of energizing Dem turnout this fall. They planned to pass new maps for 2028 in case they lose the 2026 governor’s race. They could still do it in the lame-duck period though
Roberts Court now engaged in blatant electoral warfare, doing everything it can to give Republicans as many seats as possible in midterms & completely erase Reconstruction amendments. If Dems don’t reform court when back in power there will be no democracy left to protect
Ari BermanRoberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
In Alabama, the Roberts Court hands Republicans yet another shocking gerrymandering winBy reinstating a discriminatory map, the justices are once again doing all they can to help the GOP.www.motherjones.comThis is so outrageous. Roberts Court said in Callais finding of intentional discrimination could invalidate gerrymandered maps. Lower court found Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters. SCOTUS still allowed map eliminating majority Black district to go through
Chris GeidnerBREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.