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
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
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
This week, New York Magazine posted an article called "12 Young People on Why They Probably Won't Vote," that profiled a group of millennials under the age of 30 who have either never voted before, or are so fed up with politics that they won't start now. Here are some of these ...read more
Monday was the first day of early voting in Georgia and it's...not going well for Republicans. Voters across Georgia rushed to the polls on the first day of in-person early voting Monday, with 69,049 people casting their ballots.That’s a sharp increase from the last midterm ...read more
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
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
Republicans have little to no use for democracy. We've known this for decades. It's why we had to pass the Voting Rights Act in the first place and why the extremists of the Republican controlled Supreme Court gutted it. With that pesky law out of the way, Republicans can now ...read more
After losing the Democratic nomination in 2016, Bernie Sanders started Our Revolution, an organization devoted to grassroots organizing and raising the profiles of progressive candidates. However, today's POLITICO article by Edward-Isaac Dovere paints a bleak picture of an ...read more
