Tag: voting rights

With the midterm elections nearing, election protection organizers are racing to prepare volunteers for the possibility of seeing federal agents stationed at polling places across the country. Now, former Georgia State Rep. Stacey Abrams is set to lead a high-profile Democracy Protectors training, bringing attention to a program intended to help voters respond to intimidation and misinformation.

Black people fought too hard for the right to vote to sit on the sidelines when it comes to running elections. Now, ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, the effort to recruit more Black poll workers is a critical part of ensuring our communities have a hand in the democratic process.

Nearly 700,000 people live in Washington. We work, raise our children, serve in the armed forces, and pay federal taxes at a higher rate per person than residents of any state. Not one of us can cast a vote that counts in Congress. How did the capital of a self-governing nation come to deny self-government to the people who live in it? The answer runs through the city's history. When Black Washingtonians gained political power in 1867, Congress abolished the city's elected government and handed control to three presidential appointees. Direct federal rule lasted a century.