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Weakening the Voting Rights Act: Removing the Last Safeguard
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- Mar 12, 2026
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Send us Fan Mail For decades, the Voting Rights Act was the country’s strongest safeguard against racial discrimination in elections. It didn’t just promise the right to vote—it enforced it. In Episode 12, Bella Goode explains how that safeguard has been systematically weakened over the past decade. Not through a single repeal, but through Supreme Court decisions, shifts in enforcement, and administrative strategy that leave the law standing on paper while stripping away its power in practice...