Southern workers mobilize to ensure every vote is counted

Low-wage essential workers engaged in massive efforts this year to get out the vote across the South and country. Now they're working to ensure that every vote counts. (11/5/2020)

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Conservatives make inroads on Southern high courts

Conservatives won supreme court races across the South this week, with former Republican legislators elected in several states. The results could shift Kentucky's high court to the right. The race for North Carolina chief justice is too close to call as mail-in ballots are still being tallied. (11/6/2020)

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These Georgians couldn't vote on Tuesday. But they're mobilizing by the thousands.

Over 200,000 returning citizens in Georgia on probation and parole are ineligible to vote. But many have begun to challenge the state's law, drawing inspiration from movements across the country like the one behind Florida's successful 2018 ballot measure, Amendment 4, which restored voting rights to 1.4 million formerly incarcerated people. (11/2/2020)

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Lost House race in Arkansas shows Democrats' collapse in the state

Joyce Elliott would have been the first Black representative Arkansas ever sent to Congress. But the Democratic state senator's 10-point loss to incumbent Republican French Hill in the state's 2nd Congressional District reveals a political reality that one observer calls "redder than ruby red." (11/5/2020)

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Georgia keeps Democratic Senate hopes alive

Progressives in the rest of the Deep South suffered loss after loss in statewide elections — but years of grassroots organizing in Georgia paid off.

2020 ballot measure outcomes shape a more just South

Though the South trended red in this year's general election, voters in Southern states approved progressive ballot measures that raise the minimum wage, reject Jim Crow-era election laws and flag symbolism, and relax drug laws. They also turned down measures that would have impeded this kind of direct democracy.