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Oct 16, 2025 - The Supreme Court appears ready to hobble the landmark civil-rights law. What does that mean for Black voters, democracy, and control of Congress?

Oct 24, 2025 - VPC Helps Millions of People Register and Vote

Aug 5, 2025 - National Civil Rights Museum Op-Ed Dr. Russ Wigginton, President On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the...

Nov 6, 2025

Oct 16, 2025 - The US Supreme Court's upcoming ruling in Louisiana v. Callais could redefine how race is used in redistricting and potentially weaken Section 2 of the...

Jan 16, 2025 - In 2023, the Center for Civic Policy worked with a powerful coalition to pass the New Mexico Voting Rights Act, which sought to restore the voting rights of...

The Supreme Court is considering whether a key provision of the Voting Rights Act remains constitutional.

Sep 9, 2025 - We may well see the elimination of the 11 Black-majority districts — all Democratic — in GOP-controlled Southern states.

Aug 20, 2025 - Minnesota ensured that voters and private groups can sue over VRA violations, restoring a longstanding right that federal judges had gutted last fall.

Sep 14, 2023 - Proportional electoral systems present viable options for sustaining and building upon the gains in political representation that voters of color have achieved.

Nov 27, 2025 - Democracy Docket's News & Insights series covers the fight for democracy and voting rights from the perspectives of activists, elected officials,...

The results will be "catastrophic."

Nov 12, 2025 - John Roberts began targeting the Voting Rights Act decades before he joined the U.S. Supreme Court, and as Chief Justice nearly a decade ago to the day, in...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie examines the conservative movement’s yearslong effort to challenge the right...

The 1965 Voting Rights Act — a landmark federal law that removed barriers and affirmed the right to vote for millions of African Americans — remains...

Oct 15, 2025 - The Republican justices hunt for a reason to gut America’s most successful civil rights law.

Oct 3, 2025 - Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could overturn a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that protects against racial...

Dec 2, 2025 - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Reflecting on the Road to the VRA 60 Years After its Passage Voting is how we express our power in our democracy. It is how we...