Why the Voting Rights Act’s 60th birthday might be its last

• The Voting Rights Act, the landmark Civil Rights era law that has long protected minority voters from racially gerrymandered maps, turned 60 today. But instead of celebrating, legal experts are bracing for what could be its final days.

Texas Republicans clash over lawsuit removing top Democrat from office

• Texas Republicans are not only battling quorum-breaking Democratic lawmakers, but also each other. Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton both want the courts to remove Democrats from office, but are publicly clashing over who has the authority to do so.

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The hidden hand behind the Texas GOP’s redistricting power grab

• Meet the man quietly redrawing Texas to keep the GOP in power. His name is Adam Kincaid. He doesn’t live in Texas. But he drew the state’s gerrymandered map in 2021 and again this year.

Right-wing legal group with ties to DOJ official targets state voter rolls

• In recent letters sent to state election officials in Maine, New Jersey, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, anti-voting legal group Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) alleged each state’s voter rolls contain mass inaccuracies.
  
  
• PILF’s inquiries follow a rash of letters from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to at least 19 states demanding access to sensitive voter registration data. Each of PILF’s letters were copied to Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and Maureen Riordan, the acting chief of the DOJ’s voting section. Prior to her appointment at the DOJ, Riordan was a lawyer at PILF. 

Court tosses part of Oregon voter roll lawsuit

• A federal court partially granted Oregon’s motion to dismiss an anti-voting lawsuit challenging its voter roll maintenance practices under the National Voter Registration Act. The court dismissed Judicial Watch’s request to gain access to voter roll data — meaning the state won’t have to release extensive records about its voter list efforts.
  
  
• The remaining claim, which alleges Oregon isn’t properly removing voters who have moved, will proceed but only on behalf of one plaintiff.

Trump’s defense of Ghislaine Maxwell

• Marc joined Symone Sanders, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez on MSNBC’s The Weeknight to discuss President Donald Trump’s defense of Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison transfer and how Democratic governors like Kathy Hochul, JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are fighting back against Texas’ redistricting scheme. 

How to win in a swing state

• The 2026 midterms are closer than they appear. Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D) sat down with Marc to talk about winning in swing states, protecting birthright citizenship and how the DOJ turned into Trump’s legal counsel.