Election access, Akron ballot issues, Black public memory and artists’ control over political use of music.

On September 19, California enacted a package of laws expanding voting access and strengthening protections against voter suppression, ballot interference and election-system seizures.

Two fast-moving election cases are raising a consequential question ahead of the November midterms: Will the courts serve as a guardrail when government officials attempt to change voting rules or congressional boundaries for partisan advantage? In his September 4 American Prospect newsletter, “Trump, Election Theft, and the Courts,” Robert Kuttner argues that recent rulings suggest judges may be unwilling to permit the Trump administration and its allies to reshape the elec

The strongest thread today is who gets to shape the future: voters defending political voice, Black communities preserving cultural landmarks, Akron neighborhoods rebuilding housing, climate-vulnerable communities confronting catastrophe, and musicians demanding rules for the AI era.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations unit published a new federal acquisition plan on August 31 seeking private data services for its election-fraud investigations.

A federal court has stopped the Postal Service from imposing new mail-ballot requirements—but an emergency appeal means the rules for November remain unsettled

On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, providing the final approval needed to add it to the United States Constitution.

The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, had already declared that the right of citizens to vote could not be denied because of race, color or previous condition of servitude. But between a constitutional promise and the lived reality of Black Americans stood nearly a century of organized resistance.

League of United Latin American Citizens calls on US justice department to look into raids on at least three members