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Fair Count is doing all we can to make sure everyone is counted in the census, heard at the polls + respected in Georgia's redistricting process.

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On America's 250th birthday, public mood is sour—most say the country's best days are past. Trust in institutions and fellow citizens has declined. Americans express more democratic pessimism than other nations, though some optimism persists.

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Citing voter registration fraud, 100 FBI agents raided the Ohio Organizing Collaborative and its volunteers' homes, seizing phones and papers. This appears to be an extraordinary abuse of power aimed at intimidating voters and organizers.

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The SCOTUS upheld state bans on transgender girls in school sports, preserving laws in 27 states. While not a nationwide ban, the dissent warns the ruling lowers the bar for states to justify sex-based classifications in all cases—not just athletics.

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"Good trouble" isn't history—it's now. Six years after John Lewis left us, we still carry his torch. Join Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action to organize, educate, and take action.

Let's keep this legacy alive! → https://t.co/iMb7zgQkrM

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The assault on higher education is uneven. Black studies faces the most deliberate, structural attack. University leaders have dismantled departments and narrowed the pipeline for Black scholars—a coordinated assault, not isolated decisions.

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“We Americans are going to have to rid this nation of any and all conditions where a mother will feel more secure with her son fighting in a jungle 10,000 miles away than have him walking on the streets in his own hometown.”

Honoring James Meredith: https://t.co/XUijPrcxTH

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Gender bias and denied services have kept Black women's farm ownership low. A $300 million USDA grant cut for underserved farmers widened the gap. Still, through land programs and ancestral knowledge, Black women persist—tending to land and community.

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New restrictions from the Big Beautiful Bill—signed nearly a year ago with July 4th fanfare—are rippling across the country. The law cuts $187 billion from food stamps over a decade. Since enactment, 3.5 million people have fallen off SNAP rolls.

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AP photographer Jack Thornell, who captured James Meredith crawling after a 1966 shotgun blast, died in April. View a gallery of his most striking Mississippi images from the 1960s–1980s, including Civil Rights scenes and Hurricane Camille.

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"Science has been a testing ground. If you can make people doubt peer-reviewed research, vaccines, and climate data, you can make them doubt anything. An electorate that doubts everything is an electorate that can be told anything."

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Mississippi's governor “would not be surprised if there is a special session to deal with redistricting sometime between now and when the next legislative session begins," assuring that redistricting would be "done before the 2027 election.”

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A federal judge quashed a DOJ subpoena seeking personal info from nearly 3,000 Fulton County election workers from the 2020 election, dealing a blow to the administration's escalated voter fraud investigation in Georgia.

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A Commerce Department order banning "noise infusion"—a key privacy technique the Census Bureau has used for decades—could end critical redistricting and policymaking data. Experts say balancing confidentiality w/local statistics may now be impossible.

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The Justice Department will deploy federal election monitors to Democratic states and counties during the primaries, with a "significant" expansion planned for the November midterms.

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"Georgia’s State Election Board has passed a rule aimed at granting board members access to the secretary of state’s election night hub, defying a warning from the attorney general’s office that such a rule would exceed the board’s authority."

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The Georgia PSC will investigate whether large industrial power users, including data centers, are shifting costs onto residential customers. Commission staff warn the pricing structure could drive residential bills up by 11% per month by 2028.

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Clarence Thomas is now the second-longest-serving Supreme Court justice. The average tenure exceeds 28 years—by far the longest among democracies. Life tenure from 1787, when life expectancy was half today's, is ill-suited for modern democracy.

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"Good trouble" isn't history—it's now. Six years after John Lewis left us, we still carry his torch. Join Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action to organize, educate, and take action.

Let's keep this legacy alive! → https://t.co/iMb7zgQkrM

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After the SCOTUS's undermining of the VRA, minority voters face limited alternatives for fighting racial discrimination in redistricting. State-level VRA analogs and map-drawing strategies cannot fully replace Section 2's nationwide protections.

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"Georgia’s ballot QR code crisis is resolved for now, but a late change to an elections bill passed during last month’s special session adds a new twist to the question of how future elections across the state will be run."

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