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Jan 13

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19 States Are One Party Domains

Democracy is being eroded

a set of scales sitting on a pink board — Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash

The Voting Rights Act Was Passed in 1965

I didn’t know the Voting Rights Act was so recent. 1965 wasn’t so long ago.

In 2013, the Act was gutted by the Supreme Court

One reason voting rights for Black Americans didn’t happen after the war, was the resistance from…

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