Concurrent Majority News Today

Missouri Senate Democrats filibustered efforts to bring a vote on legislation seeking to raise the bar for passing ballot initiatives in the state.

Missouri lawmakers are considering a plan that could give rural voters more influence in elections over state constitutional amendments.

On March 29, President Joe Biden signed a bill to make lynching a federal crime. Devised by a group of Black lawmakers in the House and Senate--Tim Scott of South Carolina, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Bobby Rush of Illinois and Kamala Harris of California (when she was still in the Senate)--the law comes into being after more than 200 failed attempts, over more than 100 years, to pass anti-lynching legislation through Congress.

Our political system was the primary obstacle to protecting the lives and livelihoods of its own citizens.