https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kyeGRFxYVXs
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/latosha-brown-black-voting-rights/
https://www.propublica.org/article/disabled-voters-nonprofit-funding-cuts-omb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAbQXEHzwTo
Carol Raburn, who worked the March primaries as an election judge in Tarrant County, called the proposal a form of voter suppression.
"Because what happens when people don't have a convenient place to go vote that's not too far away from where they are, where they live? They just don't go vote because they've made it so difficult," she said...
“The Supreme Court just let the Trump administration move ahead (for now) with its plan to disenfranchise voters across the country,” Newsom said in a statement. “California will be suing AGAIN to block these Orwellian rules from being implemented.”
Voting right activists condemned the ruling. Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP, said: “Let this ruling be a reminder that democracy is never, ever, guaranteed. We have to fight for it, we have to fight to keep it, and we have to protect the rights we do have within it.
“Those in power know full well that they are unpopular and will lose in a free and fair election, and so they are trying to do everything they possibly can to make it difficult for you to vote. Trump’s order has nothing to do with election integrity. It has everything to do with maintaining power at all costs.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/24/supreme-court-trump-mail-in-voting
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/09/democrats-election-disruption-planning-exercises
Between widespread cuts to vital government agencies, various disease and illness outbreaks, and new environmental disaster vulnerabilities, the United States is facing a convergence of crises with widespread repercussions.
Yet the Trump administration has hamstrung the federal government from addressing these crises – and in some cases is actively fanning them. Over the past year, the administration has moved to shrink the federal workforce, roll back environmental protections and policies intended to fight the climate crisis, reduced funding for scientific research and is seeking to advance legislation that would impose new voting restrictions...
But opponents — who are now calling it the "show your papers" law — maintain the new requirements will ultimately lead to eligible voters being pushed off the voter rolls, including married women who have changed their names and older minority voters who were born in the South and may not have a birth certificate. The lawsuit filed Wednesday also questions whether it would affect Puerto Ricans born before 2010 who came to Florida following natural disasters such as Hurricane Maria...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKUpDWzH9bY