Politics

NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson expertly trolled Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and her staunch opposition to voting rights by resurfacing one of her old tweets that called voting rights icon John Lewis her "hero."

During a 2020 appearance on Glenn Beck’s podcast, Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker promoted a product one "can bring you into a building that would clean you from COVID as you walk through this dry mist."

With about 79% of the vote, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has been named as the winner of Florida's special election to replace the late U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings in Congress. But Republican Jason Mariner, who was trounced, refuses to concede and said he plans to sue.

The new federal indictment accusing Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby of lying on a COVID-19 loan application comes after a failed investigation partially rooted in racism that is desperate to make any charges stick, her defense attorney said.

White House Senior Advisor Cedric Richmond said Senators straddling the fence need to remember that voting rights are the bedrock of democracy.  

Harris' remarks, couched in the civil rights movement's legacy, push back on the idea that people can wait for a better time to pass voting rights legislation.

Biden's challenge Tuesday wasn't just to Senate holdouts, but for those who are waiting for some return to civility that has never existed for Black and other communities of color.

Black Twitter thinks Joe Biden mispronounced the name "Ebenezer Baptist Church" during his speech in Atlanta to discuss the state of voting rights in America.

Donald Trump and the Trump Organization are big mad that New York Attorney General Letitia James is moving forward with her civil investigation. Eric Trump and attorney Alina Habba took to right-wing media to air their grievances.

Some of the leading advocates who have long sounded the alarm about the urgency for Congress to advance any bills on voting rights are skipping Biden's speech in Atlanta about voting rights, suggesting the president's words are too little, too late.

Former first lady Michelle Obama is kicking off the new year with more efforts to fight back against voter suppression in 2022.

More than 300 state and local politicians have signed the 1776 Action pledge, which calls for a restoration of "honest, patriotic education that cultivates in our children a profound love for our country," but is really just its own form of indoctrination.