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Voting Rights Groups, Georgia Voter Seek to Protect Voters’ Privacy
Lawsuit challenges DOJ demand for sensitive voter data ATLANTA — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Voting Rights Project and the ACLU of Georgia filed a motion to intervene on behalf of Common Cause and its Georgia executive director, Rosario Palacios, in United States v. Raffensperger to prevent the Department…
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“My Columbus, My Community” Children’s Book Release RSVP
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RSVP for Joyce Vance Book Talk
We’re excited to bring Joyce Vance to Montgomery for a talk about her new book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy, to be moderated by Alabama Rep. Christopher England. Vance is a legal professor at the University of Alabama and an MS NOW legal analyst. Her book is a political manifesto…
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Op-ed details the risks and harms of Florida’s off-cycle redistricting attempt
As the fight over control of the U.S. Congress in next year’s midterm elections approaches, the unprecedented, mid-decade strategic maneuvering to redistrict voting maps has been a constant hum beneath the surface. But the idea of wholesale redistricting without a new census that would provide population data for how those districts should be drawn has…
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SPLC Comment to DHS-USCIS Opposing Recent SORN for SAVE Program
SPLC Comment to the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services opposing recent changes to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program that risk disenfranchising eligible citizens and sowing distrust in elections.
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Community Listening Session – Autauga County
Join SPLC Alabama for a discussion on executing collective action activities that encourage and engage Autauga County residents to remain civically involved with the issues that affect the community. This event is conducted in partnership with Alabama Arise, Cover Alabama and the Prattville Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.
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SPLC grant helps AAPI voters build civic and electoral power from the ground up
As the fastest-growing racial group in the country, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are becoming increasingly powerful at the polls. Over the past four years, the number of eligible AAPI voters has grown by 15%, or about 2 million, much faster than the 3% growth rate for all eligible voters over the same period,…
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Under the Radar
Introduction 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a landmark natural disaster and human cataclysm. Amid the devastation of that hurricane, we witnessed the infringement of fundamental human rights, including access to food, water, shelter and safety. But the right that undergirds all of these is the right to vote: “preservative of all rights,”…
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SPLC Files Complaint Opposing Georgia County Board of Commissioners Selection Process That Disenfranchises Black Voters
ATLANTA — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a complaint challenging the use of an at-large voting system that has weakened Black voting power in elections for the Board of Commissioners in Houston County, Georgia. Houston County has a large and growing Black community centered around the city of Warner Robins. However,…
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