On the Left: Jim Crow, how are you?
Jack Batson: On the Left
Extraordinary. That’s the only word that describes today’s American political world. Extraordinary, not normal. There’s nothing ordinary about what our political right is doing. Nothing.
History is crashing into the present right before our eyes. The ghost of Jim Crow is returning. Racism reigns again with our nation’s conservative leaders.
The Republicans lost the Senate with the election of two Democrats in Georgia. The horror that always lurked on the horizon for the Republicans has finally come: demographics. The percentage of white voters is shrinking every year. They knew that the time would come when they would lose power. It finally happened in November.
Guest column: Our elections need to be protected
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At a moment when our political divisions are unusually deep, two things most Americans of all parties agree on is the vital importance of an electoral system we can all trust, and the need to rein in the influence of money on our political system. Free and fair elections are the bedrock of our democracy. We must defend democracy by strengthening the laws that govern elections.
Our organizations recently joined the Indivisible Florida Network in urging Florida Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, and members of the state congressional delegation to support three critical pieces of legislation to protect voting rights and suffrage for all Americans.
Editorial: Voting access, and our democracy, under assault
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President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters at the Save America Rally on Jan. 6 before the insurrection. Another assault on democracy is occurring with a raft of voter restriction laws in states across the nation.Yuri Gripas /TNS
The storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was a violent, bloody and deadly assault on democracy. Not a merely symbolic one as the insurrectionists breached and desecrated “The People’s House,” but a physical assault on voting and free elections.
Propelled by former President Donald Trump’s lie that he’d beaten Joe Biden in the presidential election, the insurrectionists attempted to stop the counting and certification of the Electoral College vote. Those ballots were in wooden boxes on the Senate floor.