In statehouses around the country, Republican lawmakers are pushing policies that would allow partisan legislatures to subvert the will of the voters. Nineteen states passed 33 voter suppression laws in 2021, and more are on the way. Now, after a violent attack on the Capitol, sham voter audits in Arizona and elsewhere, and electoral officials increasingly under threat, her calls of alarm seem prescient. She was promoting her book examining the intellectual roots of the far right’s decades-long attempt to shackle democratic institutions through partisan gerrymandering, attacks on labor unions and changes to rules and regulations that often went unnoticed by the public at large. Four years ago, Duke University historian Nancy MacLean was traveling the country, meeting with activists, students, and journalists, warning of an “all hands on deck” emergency for American democracy.
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