Justin Jones: The Assault On Multiracial Democracy in the South Tennessee is on the front lines of the racialized politics that has resurfaced in the South since SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act....
Tennessee GOP Eliminates Last Dem Seat, Black Majority District
Tennessee Republicans approved new maps that would eliminate the state's last Democratic congressional seat and its only majority-Black district, drawing protests and lawsuits.
Alain Stephens is an investigative reporter covering gun violence, arms trafficking, and federal law enforcement. Within days of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, Republican lawmake...
Last month, the Supreme Court set fire to the remnants of the Voting Rights Act, the law that made America a true democracy. Now southern Republicans are annihilating Black political power. In Louisi...
Florida, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, Missouri, and several other southern states have dashed to redistricting to eliminate the influence of non-whites in their state...
Voters are heading to the polls for this year’s midterms, but the electoral maps are shifting under their feet in real time. Last month, the Supreme Court narrowed a provision in the Voting Rights Act...
Tennessee’s congressional gerrymander, which wiped out the state’s only Black-majority district, has drawn another lawsuit. Black voters and civil rights groups, represented by the ACLU, filed suit i...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the reigning queen of the confidently incorrect, recently took her traveling circus of ignorance to the University of Chicago, where she somberly warned that GOP...
For more than four decades, the Ninth Congressional District of Tennessee stood as a bulwark, ensuring that the Black voters who compose a majority of the city of Memphis could choose their representa...
Adam Serwer: Now, This Is Rigged Tennessee just completely disenfranchised its black voters after the Supreme Court gave red states the green light to rig the midterms by redistricting black majority...
With the Supreme Court blessing racial gerrymandering, Tennessee’s GOP rushed to eliminate the state’s only majority-Black congressional district. The post Tennessee GOP Moves to Decimate Black Voting...
As Tennessee eliminated its only majority-Black district, Ari Berman and Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson explain how SCOTUS enabled the right’s “power grab.” The post The Supreme Court Ends Mul...
Tennessee Republicans approved new congressional maps Thursday that are expected to eliminate the state’s last Democratic seat, triggering protests from activists and outrage from leftists inside the...
Just a week after the Supreme Court effectively destroyed the key remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act, Tennessee on Thursday is set to become the first Southern state to pass a new redistrict...
Tennessee Republican lawmakers released new election maps Wednesday that would wipe out the last Democratic congressional seat. The map release from the GOP leadership in the state House and Senate c...