Controversial "super mayor" Tiffany Henyard has at least one partisan ally in her dispute with her local Democratic Party over allegations of voter suppression in a recent caucus.During the Dec. 3 caucus, the Dolton, Illinois, mayor lost the Democratic nomination for Thornton Township supervisor, a position she currently holds. Henyard’s name was not even on the ballot because she did not have a certified assessor on her ticket, a requirement for all nominees. Over the last two weeks, Henyard has been threatening and attempting legal action against Illinois state Sen....

Voting rights advocate Marc Elias Monday against MAGA in his ongoing battle to defend . In Kansas, a court permanently blocked a voter suppression law "that targeted voter registration organizations with criminal penalties for 'false representation,'" Elias said on Bluesky. The GOP-led legislature passed two laws, said. made it illegal to assist voters or collect their ballots and required signature verifications for voters. The court ruled Monday that the laws violate the state's constitution by enforcing an "undue burden" on voters.

Dolton "Super Mayor" Tiffany Henyard is planning to fight back after losing the Democratic nomination for Thornton Township supervisor, a position she currently holds. Henyard did not qualify for the Dec. 3 caucus because she did not have a certified assessor on her ticket, a requirement for all nominees. She objected to the proceedings that night, then claimed, "It was voter suppression," in an interview Thursday. On Saturday, she revealed during a rally that she planned to file a lawsuit against Illinois state Sen. Napolean Harris, the committeeman of the...

The Black church is historically known for impacting voter turnout. Pastor Dr. Jamal H. Bryant kicked off Project 5-5-5 in Atlanta, Georgia at The Carter Center to trouble the conservative, far-right Republican agenda Project 2025 and mobilize voting drives across the state. Several national organizations and public advocates Mayor Jazzmin Cobble of Stonecrest, Esq. Mo Ivory, District 4 commissioner elect and Congressman Hank Johnson, came together to be agents of change. Leaders and members of these groups include the National Coalition of 100 Black Women; 100 Black Men of Dekalb;...

Republicans in Georgia have been champions at pioneering new ways to disenfranchise Democratic voters. Their latest scam is breathtaking. When Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp was Secretary of State — the state’s top elections official — and running against Stacey Abrams for Governor in 2018, Abrams’ organization had registered 53,000 people (70% African American) to vote. Kemp put those registrations so they couldn’t vote in the 2018 election, which he won by 54,723 votes. But that was just the beginning for Kemp. By the year prior to the 2018 election...

Two right-wing operatives with a history of peddling conspiracy theories are now facing the consequences of orchestrating a more real conspiracy of their own. Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman agreed to pay up to $1.25 million to the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James after being charged with overseeing a 2020 election robocall campaign aimed at suppressing the Black voter turnout, NBC News reported. The speaker on the robocalls identified herself as "Tamika Taylor of Project 1599," and falsely told around 5,500 Black voters in New York that...