DemDaily: What is the Voting Rights Act? and Status
August 10, 2026 Last week marked the 61st anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), the most far-reaching civil rights legislation in modern US history. More than half a century after its...
Posted August 10, 2026
DemDaily: The Last Orders of the US Supreme Court
July 1, 2026 The final opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) were announced Monday and Tuesday, marking the conclusion of its 2025-2026 term with decisions in a dozen...
Posted July 1, 2026
DemDaily: What is Juneteenth?
June 19, 2026 Today is Juneteenth Independence Day, a federal holiday signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2021, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The legislation...
Posted June 19, 2026
DemDaily: SCOTUS Reinstates Racial Discrimination in Redistricting
June 9, 2026 The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) last Tuesday cleared the way for Alabama to use a GOP-drawn congressional map in the 2026 elections that eliminates one of two existing...
Posted June 9, 2026
DemDaily: Voter Suppression: Trump’s Latest Victory
June 1, 2026 In another threat to the voting rights of Americans, a federal judge last week refused to block President Donald Trump’s latest attempt at voter suppression, clearing the way...
Posted June 1, 2026
DemDaily: Supreme Court Decimates Voting Rights Act
May 4, 2026 In a devastating blow to democracy, the US Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday struck down a Louisiana congressional map as unconstitutionally racially...
Posted May 4, 2026
DemDaily: No Kings Saturday! What You Need to Know
March 27, 2026 On Saturday, March 28, millions of people across the nation will rise up, united in protest of President Donald Trump’s escalating authoritarian regime — to remind him...
Posted March 28, 2026
DemDaily: Barriers to the Ballot Box: The SAVE America Act
March 25, 2026 The US Senate is debating the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, the “Voter ID” bill that would block millions of Americans from registering their...
Posted March 25, 2026
DemDaily: The American Story of Emmett Till
September 2, 2025 Last Thursday, August 28, marked the 70th anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till — the 14-year-old Black child from Chicago who was beaten to death in 1955 for allegedly...
Posted September 2, 2025
DemDaily: What is The Voting Rights Act?
August 5, 2025 Today marks the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), the most far-reaching civil rights legislation in modern US history. More than half a century after its...
Posted August 5, 2025
