The not-surprising, very bad defeat of Biden’s attempt to protect voting | The fight to vote

The reason it failed is simple: 50 Republicans didn't support the proposals and two Democrats opposed changing the filibuster

Hello, and happy Thursday,

It's difficult to figure out what to say about the kind-of-surprising-yet- not-really-surprising-at-all collapse of Democrats' effort to pass sweeping voting rights legislation.

I interviewed Martin Luther King III and his daughter Yolanda about what comes next in the fight for voting rights.

Governor Ron DeSantis is proposing a massive new state agency to investigate election crimes, even though there's little evidence of fraud in Florida.

Preparations for the upcoming Texas primary are a bit of a mess as officials struggle to implement the state's new voting restrictions. Officials have reported rejecting high percentages of mail-in ballot applications.

The Ohio supreme court struck down GOP-drawn maps for both the state legislature and Congress, saying they were so partisan they violated the state constitution.

Republicans in Virginia and Arizona have introduced a slew of new voter restrictions.