Voting Matters Blog

Forty-ninth anniversaries don’t usually garner much attention, but today a 49th anniversary—though filled with pathos—is worth commemorating. The Voting Rights... Read more

One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act, gutting the preclearance requirements... Read more

Congress’s approval ratings are at all-time record lows. Americans have lost faith in our elected officials. The public no longer... Read more

More than 10 months have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court shocked the American public by striking down Section 4(B)... Read more

President Obama said voting rights are under attack and condemned anti-voting measures at partisan at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action... Read more

“Citizenship means standing up for everyone’s right to vote,” said President Barack Obama at his State of the Union Address... Read more

In his State of the Union Address last night, President Obama stressed to members of Congress the importance of bipartisanship... Read more

Today, members of Congress took an important first step in restoring and reinvigorating the protections afforded by the Voting Rights... Read more

In one of the best analogies ever found in a Supreme Court opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likened the Voting... Read more

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Civil rights leaders are gathering... Read more