This week, outgoing Congressman Beto O’Rourke said he would not rule out running for president in 2020. While a tantalizing prospect, should Beto run, he may be missing an opportunity to build something else far more powerful in the long run.... To continue reading this article, ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 30, 2018

The former Georgia Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, just pulled off one of the most comprehensively racist and anti-democratic campaigns in recent American history. Ari Berman, one of America’s leading writers in the country who monitors voter suppression, provided us with the ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 19, 2018

Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg ruled in a lawsuit filed by Common Cause Georgia that the Georgia Secretary of State's Office must count provisional ballots in the ongoing governor's election, citing "substantial likelihood" that Republican candidate and former ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 6, 2018

Photo: Jeff Mitchell/Getty Images Bernie Sanders lost the 2016 Democratic primary because black women - the Democratic Party's most reliable voting bloc - voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton during the early Southern primaries, giving her a delegate lead he could never ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 12, 2018

Yesterday, the Associated Press and Talking Points Memo revealed that Georgia Secretary of State and Republican candidate for governor Brian Kemp has prevented 53,000 applicants from being added to the voter rolls - 70% of whom are black and may not even know they have been ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

In a victory for voting rights advocates everywhere today, Georgia's Randolph County Board of Elections struck down a controversial proposal that would have shuttered seven of the county's nine polling places, after deliberating for less than a minute. "The Board followed the ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018