This page collects published materials about voting rights. We envision these being used both as sources of potential information about voting rights (and threats to them) as well as examples for people interested in writing about voting rights for publication. Please reach out if you have questions or materials to share.
Alex Burness, “New Washington D.C. Bill Would End Voter Registration As You Know It,” Bolts Mag, 9/12/2022 [article]
Jennifer Lawrence, “A Personal Plea to Save Our Democracy—and Vote,” Vogue, 9/7/2022 [op-ed]
Eric Mlyn, “Our House Is Burning,” Inside Higher Ed, 8/22/2022 [op-ed]
Jane Mayer, “State Legislatures Are Torching Democracy,” The New Yorker, 8/6/2022 [article]
Dan Kaufman, “Will Wisconsin’s Republicans Make Voting Meaningless, or Just Difficult?” The New Yorker, 7/25/2022 [article]
Charles Homans, “How ‘Stop the Steal’ Captured the American Right,” The New York Times, 7/19/2022 [article]
Heather Cox Richardson, “3/31/2022: Regarding Florida’s Restrictive Elections Laws,” Letters from an American, 3/31/2022 [newsletter]
Alex Pareene, “Be the Fraud You Think You See in the World,” The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter, Substack, 3/23/2022 [newsletter opinion]
Stephanie McCrummen, “‘Gutted’: What Happened When a Georgia Elections Office Was Targeted for Takeover by Those Who Claim the 2020 Election Was a Fraud,” Washington Post, 3/14/2022 [newspaper article]
Alex Scarborough, “Alabama Football Coach Nick Saban Urges West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin to Support Freedom to Vote Act,” ESPN, 1/18/2022 [news article]
Brian Naylor, “The Senate Is Set to Debate Voting Rights. Here’s What the Bills Would Do,” NPR, 1/18/2022 [news article]
Mini Timmaraju, “If the Senate Fails to Act, Voting Is Not the Only Freedom on the Line,” The Nation, 1/18/2022 [op-ed]
Colbert I. King, “Opinion: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Words on Voting Rights Resonate All Too Well Today,” Washington Post, 1/14/2022 [op-ed]
Jennifer Rubin, “How to Protect Voting Rights, Prevent the Supreme Court from Self-Immolation and Boost Democracy,” Washington Post, 12/2/2021 [op-ed]
Marc Elias, “On Voting Rights, There Are No Moderates in the GOP,” Democracy Docket, 9/12/2021 [op-ed]
“Democrats And Republicans Are In An Existential Crisis Over Ballot Access,” KQED, NPR, 6/22/2021 [podcast]
Nick Corasaniti and Reid J. Epstein, “How Republican States Are Expanding Their Power Over Elections,” New York Times, 6/19/2021 [newspaper article]
Nick Corasaniti and Reid J. Epstein, “G.O.P. and Allies Draft ‘Best Practices’ for Restricting Voting,” New York Times, 3/23/2021 [newspaper article]
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