The fight over Alabama's voting maps shows just how low the Roberts Court will go in allowing Republicans to draw Black candidates out of office. And Montgomery, the birthplace of the civil rights movement, has seen again and again what happens when they lack that representation.

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The Supreme Court's VRA backlash causing a Black turnout surge could not have happened to Republicans in a worse year: 2026 is the first election cycle since 1936 with a U.S. Senate race in every Southern state, thanks to the Florida special election

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"Cornell Belcher...released a survey shortly after the Callais decision showing that Black voters viewed the Supreme Court as the biggest threat to their community, ahead of Trump & the economy/jobs. Nearly 80% of respondents said that the Callais decision had made them much more likely to vote."

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Latino turnout is through the roof too! The contemporary USA is about to tell the Make America 1958 USA who and what and when we are. All graphs from Simon Rosenberg at: www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/latinos-ar...

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Gotta keep two ideas in mind: 1) high Black turnout doesn’t mean that ending the VRA wasn’t bad for democracy, 2) we have to learn lessons from Black mobilization (for example, since the Shelby decision in 2013, Black urban/suburban turnout has done much better than exurb/rural B turnout)

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