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DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE

Abdallah Fayyad
The real forgotten voter is sitting in jail
While most people in jail are still eligible to vote, they’re effectively barred from casting a ballot.

LETTERS
For him, this election is important like no other
"In my 67 years, I’ve never known a significant portion of the populace to have the level of despair that people feel now. Democracy has never been under siege as it is currently."

EDITORIAL
The witch hunt that never was
No president should call for the Justice department to prosecute his political opponents. Trump’s accusations against the Obama administration and the FBI have proven unfounded despite his despotic tirades.

Edward J. Markey, Martin J. Walsh, and Iván Espinoza-Madrigal
An accurate census ensures equity
That opportunity is under threat with the Supreme Court ruling this week that allows the Trump administration to end the count early.

LETTERS
Now the very act of voting has become heroic
"Despite all of the Republican attempts to stop citizens from voting, Americans are persevering."

Joan Vennochi
Will ‘the law of Amy’ — or ‘the law of the American people’ — guide Barrett?
The track record of the Supreme Court nominee suggests she is ideologically positioned to do exactly what Trump is nominating her to do.

SCOT LEHIGH
Ideas on how to help beat Donald Trump
From postcards to letters to calls to texts, there’s a lot we can do.

RENÉE GRAHAM
Voter suppression is democracy bleeding out
Trump and the GOP aren’t content with making it harder to vote. They want it to be impossible.

Dick Gephardt and Tom Ridge
We’re a bipartisan group of former leaders who have joined forces to protect our democracy
More than 30 former congressional leaders, former Cabinet secretaries, retired military officials, and leaders of civic organizations the bipartisan National Council on Election Integrity to ensure a democratic outcome to the 2020 election.

Scott Harshbarger
To protect the election, prosecutors and lawyers everywhere must stand up to Attorney General Barr
If mobilized to favor one candidate’s election success, the DOJ’s army of lawyers and agents could swing the outcome of a contested national vote against the people’s will.