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BREAKING: Supreme Court GUTS the Voting Rights Act MARC ELIAS EXPLAINS!

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  Democracy Docket 693K subscribers Apr 29, 2026 BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court just kneecapped the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a landmark civil rights law that restricted racial gerrymandering and racial discrimination in voting. Marc Elias is joined by Legal Content Editor Ashley Cleaves to break down the implications of this ruling and the impact it will have on voter representation. Subscribe to our free newsletters or upgrade to support our work: https://bit.ly/42wcKUC ---- Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and elections in the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy and independent standpoint. Covering election and voting litigation is central to our mission. But today’s battles over democracy — access to voting, gerrymandering, executive overreach, the rule of law and more — also play out in Congress, in the Trump administration and in states around the country. As Trump and his GOP allies work to dismantle our democ...
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What will the next bailout look like?

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  UNFTR Weekly Roundup Follow us on  Bluesky , and  check out  Max’s contributor videos  on the MeidasTouch Network! Was this newsletter forwarded to you?  Sign up here!   Max Notes What will the next bailout look like? Donnie boy recently floated the idea of bailing out the UAE and it got me noodling. Methinks he might want to hold onto some of that dry powder for someone else. Us.   By now you’ve heard me prattle on about how most Americans never emerged from the Great Recession. The corporate world has kept turning on its axis but the majority of working people have been running in place or falling behind since this time. The entire UNFTR canon is pretty much dedicated to explaining why and how this all came about. In a nutshell: stagflation in the 1970s from Nixon’s currency shock and dual oil embargoes upended Keynesian norms and provided an opening for the Chicago School economic philosophy (neoliberalism) to take hold.   Only the paper...
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