The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act, Part II
Added 2026-01-27 09:00:10 +0000 UTCHow the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was dismantled.
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Allison Rogers is my favorite podcast producer 💗
Alex Mannix
2026-02-02 07:40:34 +0000 UTCYou fucking beautiful nerds, I love you so much. Thank you ❤️🩹
Emily
2026-01-31 23:20:08 +0000 UTCFun anecdote about the renewal of the VRA in 2006: my dad took me on my first trip to NYC that year. He told me he’d found tickets to a show that was a benefit to raise money to advocate for VRA renewal. I said, okay cool. He said, it’s at the Apollo theater. I said, whoa nice. He said, it’s Stevie Wonder. I said holy fuck yes. My first show in NYC
David Rutledge
2026-01-29 00:46:49 +0000 UTCI'm working on a federal voting literacy test for when we implement 13 Supreme Court justices, expand the senate to maybe 150 to better represent population realities and create a lobbying salary cap that would require companies who spend more than 10k in annual lobbying to suffer a 20% tax increase on every 10k over the initial 10k. The test would have questions like: Is Clarence Thomas A: white or B: Stupid, so that for conservatives to vote they'd have to humiliate themselves. Then, after the election was over, the results would be published and they'd say President Ilhan Omar got 90 percent of the vote and 97.3 percent believe Justce Kavanaugh is a rapist, while 2.7 believe he is a Boston Terrier.
jbwhat
2026-01-28 20:41:02 +0000 UTCListening from Minneapolis and crying, y'all tied it up into a beautiful hopeful conclusion that I needed 💜
Maggie
2026-01-28 04:33:06 +0000 UTCPodhoretz just Substack'd a piece about reverse Reconstruction as the ur-project going on, since, well, Reconstruction https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelpodhorzer/p/the-war-of-southern-aggression?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=281i0
James Talley
2026-01-28 03:17:28 +0000 UTCFor anyone who wants to learn more about how white flight played out with some more nuance, definitely check out Race For Profit by Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor or The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran. (The Color of Law is more famous, but the writing sucks and Rothstein's analysis is superficial)
Devin Rooney
2026-01-28 00:32:05 +0000 UTChttps://www.c-span.org/video/?c5015105/justice-clarence-thomas-i-happened-court-tremendously-bad
Jimbo Slice
2026-01-27 23:34:53 +0000 UTCThere's so little for obvious cuts in these episodes that any time there is one I automatically assume Peter said something that couldn't be left in the final cut lol
audioboy
2026-01-27 21:13:21 +0000 UTCSo damn near immediately after the Warren court they do everything they can to chip away at the voting rights act. What a bunch of unfun losers
Shugoshin
2026-01-27 18:00:17 +0000 UTC
