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May 9, 2026
Jason Linkins
Every Democratic Candidate Must Have an Answer for This Question
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is trying to drive the party to extinction. What do they plan to do about it?
May 8, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Samuel Alito Cited Fudged Data in His Ruling Gutting Voting Rights Act
Alito cited data provided by the Department of Justice that used faulty methodology.
May 8, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Virginia Supreme Court Tosses New Voting Map That Boosted Democrats
Virginia residents had voted to redraw the state’s congressional districts to give Democrats more seats.
May 8, 2026
Hannah Garden-Monheit
Less Noted, Just as Radical: The High Court’s Rightward Economic Shift
The Supreme Court and other federal courts have moved dramatically to the right on economic policy as well as social and democracy policy. It’s time to take on that fight too.
May 8, 2026
Matt Ford
John Roberts Is Trying to Defend the Indefensible
The chief justice insists he and his colleagues are not political actors, but can’t explain what an overtly politicized right-wing court would do differently from the one he leads.
May 7, 2026
Matt Ford
Southern Republicans Are Already Deleting Black Districts
The Supreme Court’s recent gerrymandering ruling has touched off an instantaneous demolition of Black political power as state lawmakers roll back the Second Reconstruction.
May 6, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Enlists DOJ as His Personal Attorneys to Fight E. Jean Carroll
Trump is using the Department of Justice as his personal lawyers in order to get out of paying E. Jean Carroll the millions he owes.
May 5, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Louisiana Governor Tossed Thousands of Votes In Order to Help Trump
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry wasted no time trying to overturn votes.
May 5, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Second Republican Governor Rejects Trump’s Gerrymandering Wars
South Carolina won’t be redistricting anytime soon.
May 5, 2026
Right Now With Perry Bacon
The Supreme Court Is Lying About Racism in America
Author Kimberlé Crenshaw says that the Supreme Court keeps issuing rules for a post-racial America that the justices know doesn’t exist.
Video is available for this article
May 5, 2026
Right Now With Perry Bacon
Transcript: The Supreme Court Is Lying About Racism in America
Author Kimberlé Crenshaw says that the conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court know America is not post-racial but insist on pretending that it is.
Video is available for this article
May 5, 2026
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Transcript: Trump Has No Clue What His Supreme Court Just Unleashed
As Trump urges Republicans to rig the battle for the House amid cratering polls, a voting rights advocate explains how Democrats can fight fire with fire—and why that might succeed.
May 5, 2026
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Confused Trump Openly Admits Plot to Rig Midterms as Polls Turn Brutal
As Trump incoherently urges Republicans to rig the battle for the House amid cratering polls, a voting rights advocate explains how Democrats can fight fire with fire—and why that might succeed.
May 4, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Hakeem Jeffries Brings New York Into Trump’s Gerrymandering Fight
The Supreme Court ruling kicked off a wave of redistricting in red states.
May 4, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Supreme Court Saves Abortion Pill Mifepristone—for Now
The Supreme Court is restoring access to mifepristone, in rare but temporary good news.
May 4, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Threatens States That Don’t Rig Their Midterm Elections
Trump is escalating pressure on states in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act.
May 1, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Alabama Rushes to Eliminate Its Only Two Democrats in Congress
Another Republican governor has joined Donald Trump’s gerrymandering wars in light of the Supreme Court ruling.
May 1, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Republican Governor Refuses to Join Trump’s Gerrymandering Wars
Georgia’s Brian Kemp is refusing to take action after the Supreme Court ruling—for now.
May 1, 2026
Michael Tomasky
John Roberts Is Either Dumb or Racially Obtuse. And He’s Not Dumb.
After the Supreme Court struck down school integration, guess what happened in the schools? The same thing that’s about to happen with congressional districts.
May 1, 2026
Matt Ford
The Best Way to Fix the Supreme Court’s Attack on Voting Rights
If U.S. electoral politics is going to survive the high court’s attack on equal rights, the game will have to change.
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