The Nation Magazine

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The new issue is hot off the pressess—see what’s inside here.

Why We Still Need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

“…only a Supreme Court wholly divorced from reality would review the record on voting rights since Congress reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 2006 and conclude that a key pillar of the law was no longer needed.” 

—Ari Berman

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Our brand new issue is out today—here’s what’s inside:

• Lee Fang on the Koch brothers’ ground game
• Katha Pollitt on why the right to be a jerk is where freedom begins
• Florida’s new trap at the polls for ex-felons
• The bad lessons from “Won’t Back Down”
• & much more:

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Recruits’ job is chiefly to make voters feel like they’re “driving and seeing the police following you.” 

Have you heard about the right-wing machine’s despicable plan to recruit 1 million poll watchers to intimidate people of color out of voting this November? Read the unbelievable story here.