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Op-EdSeptember 10, 2021 1:49 pm | By 75043
Virginia Voters’ Choice: Forward with Voting Rights Champ for Governor or Backward With Team Trump
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Virginia’s voters will pick the state’s next governor in November. The choice couldn’t be clearer, and neither could the national implications of this race in a bellwether state. Not only is the Virginia…
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Op-EdSeptember 7, 2021 3:00 pm | By 28186
THE HILL: Texas, abortion and the tyranny of the shadow docket
This op-ed was posted in The Hill on September 6, 2021. If there was any doubt about the growing menace of the federal courts’ “shadow docket,” the Supreme Court’s disastrous and opaque ruling allowing an unconstitutional abortion ban to go…
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Op-EdSeptember 2, 2021 5:07 pm | By 75043
A Red Flag on the West Coast
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. In just a few days, California will wrap up its recall election targeting Governor Gavin Newsom, a scheme orchestrated by a Far Right still seething over the Big Lie. At first glance…
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Op-EdAugust 26, 2021 2:41 pm | By 75043
THE NATION: It’s Time for Biden to Lead on Voting Rights
This op-ed was posted in The Nation on August 26, 2021. Senate Republicans have just reaffirmed their shameless resistance to protecting voting rights through the use of the filibuster. This time, they are preventing the Senate from moving forward on…
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Op-EdAugust 26, 2021 2:34 pm | By 75043
President Biden: You Must Do More to Protect Voting Rights
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. I was proud to work hard for the election of President Joe Biden. And I was proud to protest outside the Biden White House on Aug. 24. Along with other voting rights…
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Op-EdJuly 29, 2021 3:52 pm | By 75043
To Protect Democracy, We Have to Fix the Supreme Court
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. It’s been six months since the Biden-Harris administration began, ushering in an era of hope after four bitter and disheartening years. We have much to celebrate. At the same time, there are ways…
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Op-EdJuly 29, 2021 10:23 am | By 45417
Founder Norman Lear at 99: Protect Voting Rights Now
On July 27, our People For founder Norman Lear celebrated his 99th birthday. And he made it clear what was on his mind on that day in a moving op-ed in The Washington Post: our country’s voting rights emergency. “I…
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Op-EdJuly 26, 2021 10:51 am | By 75043
Whitewashing History and Suppressing Voters Go Hand in Hand
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. There’s been a lot of news about the Democratic legislators in Texas who fled the state to prevent Republicans from pushing through sweeping new voter suppression laws. Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened to have them arrested to force them to attend a special session…
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Op-EdJuly 25, 2021 1:48 pm | By 51279
Dolores Huerta: Time Is Running Out to Defend Voting Rights
In an op-ed for the Monterey Herald, labor leader, civil rights icon and People For board member Dolores Huerta sounds a warning: time is running out to defend voting rights against the onslaught of state laws designed to suppress the…
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Op-EdJuly 21, 2021 10:00 am | By 51279
Prof. Mary Frances Berry in The Philadelphia Inquirer: Honor John Lewis. Pass the For the People Act.
The one-year anniversary of the death of civil rights icon John Lewis prompts a deeper examination of our nation’s voting rights emergency – and the urgent need for federal action to protect voting rights. In an op-ed for The Philadelphia…
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Op-EdJuly 20, 2021 10:52 am | By 75043
People For President Ben Jealous in The Hill on Lewis Anniversary
One year after the passing of Rep. John Lewis, who spent his life and career fighting for voting rights, a recent raft of voter suppression legislation in the states threatens to undermine Lewis’s legacy. And this newest chapter in the…
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Op-EdJuly 16, 2021 3:10 pm | By 75043
Texas Democrats Are Getting into ‘Good Trouble’
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. One year after the death of the great civil rights icon John Lewis, a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers is following Lewis’s lifelong call for people to make “good trouble” and “necessary…
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Op-EdJuly 2, 2021 2:58 pm | By 75043
The Insurrection and the Lost Cause
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. A violent insurrection engulfed the U.S. Capitol just six months ago. One United States Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died and other Capitol police are still healing. Investigators are still going through video and social media documenting…
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Op-EdJune 25, 2021 3:19 pm | By 75043
New Hope on Shelby Anniversary
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority prevailed in a case that undermined one of the crowning achievements of the 1960s civil rights movement, the Voting Rights Act of 1965.…
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Op-EdJune 21, 2021 5:54 pm | By 75043
Three Urgent Steps to Defend Democracy from Cynics and Skeptics
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. The far-right attack on voting rights is fierce. And the unwillingness of some Senate Democrats to challenge rules that allow a Republican minority to block voting rights bills is making some question…
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Op-EdJune 15, 2021 3:04 pm | By 75043
THE NATION: The Right’s War on History and Truth
This op-ed by People For the American Way President Ben Jealous was published in The Nation on June 15, 2021. History is contested because the telling of history is powerful. President Joe Biden brought eloquent leadership to a national commemoration…
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Op-EdJune 14, 2021 12:31 pm | By 75043
Black Churches Have Moral Authority to Defend the Black Vote
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. During the civil rights movement’s struggle against discrimination and voter suppression in Jim Crow America, the Black Church was a source of refuge and resolve. Today, a new wave of voter suppression…
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Op-EdJune 7, 2021 5:08 pm | By 75043
Power and Pride to the People!
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Happy Pride month to Black LGBTQ readers and to all of us who love LGBTQ people! June has become the traditional month for Pride celebrations in honor of the gay and transgender people,…
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Op-EdJune 1, 2021 10:47 am | By 75043
Don’t Let Senate Republicans Keep Us From Learning the Truth About the Attack on the Capitol
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Republicans in the U.S. Senate are a threat to our democracy. Here’s the latest proof: Republicans are using the Senate’s filibuster rules to stop Congress from creating a commission to investigate the deadly…
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Op-EdMay 25, 2021 3:06 pm | By 75043
It’s Time for a Black Woman on the Supreme Court
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. I am eager to see a brilliant Black woman serving as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. I hope to celebrate her swearing-in later this year. If you’re thinking, “Did I miss something?”…