Ari Berman

“I have never seen a rally with this much excitement and this kind of crowd, ever.” Congressman Shomari Figures (D-AL) drew 400-500 people in a county that Trump won by 48 points. Dothan locals said the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA is motivating democrats to get out to the polls.

State legislative races should be getting a lot more attention Dems could flip 500 seats, pick up new majorities in 7 states & break up GOP majorities in 6 states 2026 could be 2010 in reverse

By gutting the Voting Rights Act John Roberts has opened the door for Louisiana, a state whose population is a third Black, to have zero majority-Black voting districts Listen to my deep dive with @pemalevy.bsky.social on this week’s episode of @revealnews.org www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In 2026, the Supreme Court essentially gutted the Voting Rights Act, giving Republican-controlled legislatures a green light to redraw congressional districts ahead of the midterms. This week on Reveal, come with us to Louisiana to hear what this means for the state and the rest of the South.

More than 1.5 million people have watched our video on how the Roberts court has ushered in a new era of Jim Crow. See why youtube.com/shorts/QVBHg...

In 1868 Louisiana elected first Black congressman. He was never seated In 1875 Louisiana elected second Black congressman. He served just one term It took 114 years for Louisiana to elect another Black member of Congress And now Roberts Court wants to wipe out Black representation across South

Here's some history the US Supreme Court doesn't want you to think about. In April 2026, SCOTUS effectively ended the Voting Rights Act. The decision has startling parallels with Plessy v. Ferguson, the decision that established “separate but equal" and cemented Jim Crow.

Trump says voter fraud is rampant. The evidence says otherwise. On this week's More To The Story, Mother Jones' @ariberman.bsky.social joins us to discuss what conservative activists who say election fraud is rampant are really trying to achieve. 🎧 Listen: apple.co/4j58dlP

@revealnews.org asked election conspiracist J. Christian Adams to provide evidence to back up his outlandish claims of rampant voter fraud. Instead he pulled a Trump and walked out of the interview. You need to listen to this www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Thank you @mikesacks.bsky.social @legalafmtn.bsky.social for having me & @pemalevy.bsky.social on for important discussion on how Roberts Court is bringing back Jim Crow & ending Second Reconstruction youtu.be/U8o1g_EA5gU?...

🚨🚨 WE HAVE A NEW VLOGCAST 🚨🚨 "Stress Test," hosted by @davidcorn.bsky.social and @garrisonhayes.bsky.social. The first episode is on ways Trump, or any bad actors, might to try to hijack the election. With @ariberman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv59...

Very important - today 10/5 is the last day to register to vote if you live in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas

🚨🚨Attention - if you live in Alaska, Rhode Island or South Carolina today 10/4 is the last day to register to vote

Chief Justice John Roberts’s plan to degrade Black voting rights was apparent even before his confirmation to the Supreme Court. @jenrubin.bsky.social spoke with journalists @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social on the issue:

🚨Really important voter registration deadlines coming up: 10/4 - Alaska, Rhode Island & South Carolina 10/5 - Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas Make sure you're registered & spread the word

DHS SAVE database has long and documented history of producing false positives of non-citizens voting, leading to sensational headlines of alleged voter fraud that turn out to be untrue on closer inspection. In St. Louis County, MO, for example at least 81% of the names flagged were incorrect

Thanks to SCOTUS GOP-appointed majority (same ones who attended Trump's state dinner last night), Trump admin will use faulty & inaccurate data to wrongly label eligible voters non-citizens & pressure states to remove them from rolls. Sets a chilling precedent www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls

By destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction, write @ariberman.bsky.social & @pemalevy.bsky.social.

Great piece from @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social on the Redemption-Era evils the Roberts Court has resurrected www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social

@ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social have a damning new story about how the Roberts Court is reviving Jim Crow, relying on the same legal tactics used to undermine the Reconstruction. A must read to understand the stakes of this election. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Did @ariberman.bsky.social and I manage to have an *empowering* conversation about election interference? Yeah, I think we did slate.com/podcasts/wha...

USPS blatantly illegal and unconstitutional scheme to steal the midterms for Trump would've disenfranchised millions of voters For once SCOTUS got it right on voting rights www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If Trump's order for DHS to help manage voter rolls goes into effect this November, "it's going to be inaccurate, it's going to be unconstitutional, and a lot of legitimate American voters are going to be wrongly labeled as non-citizens and unable to vote," warns @ariberman.bsky.social

SCOTUS GOP-appointed majority has ruled for Trump in 90% of shadow docket cases and is clearly signaling they’re not going to stop him from interfering in midterms by approving, at least temporarily, blatantly unconstitutional EO to restrict mail voting www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now says it's too soon for states to challenge Trump EO restricting mail voting even though midterms 70 days away. Justice Jackson rightly calls it "Kafkaesque nightmare"

61 years ago LBJ signed Voting Rights Act. He called it "a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield." But now the Supreme Court has effectively killed it after John Roberts spent 40 years working to destroy the country’s most important civil rights law

It's no coincidence that Trump went nuclear on John Thune to pass SAVE Act just as GOP is detoriating in generic ballot. Latest polls are striking: Fox D+7 Pew D+6 Emerson D+11 On the pod, @ariberman.bsky.social is so good on Trump's coming effort to steal midterms: newrepublic.com/article/2134...

Super important conversation about voting and elections… youtu.be/gBWYxEQoxHQ?... @slate.com @motherjones.com @ariberman.bsky.social @paigeosburn.bsky.social

Trump's speech was a total dud but he's still going to use it as pretext to interfere in midterms. In particular the discredited allegations of Chinese interference are intended to lay groundwork for fake national emergency. That's the real threat www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump claimed in speech DHS found 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote. Turns out that number was 10,716 based on report they just released. Even that # likely wildly inflated due to false positives & inaccuracies in SAVE database

All the ways Trump has gutted efforts to stop foreign election interference: -laid off a third of CISA employees -disbanded FBI task charged with combatting foreign election interference -eliminated DHS teams combatting foreign disinformation -fired all the EAC commissioners

Trump claims 278,000 non-citizens on voter rolls. That’s laughable. Utah recently audited 2 million people on voter rolls and found just 27 noncitizens registered, amounting to .00135% of registered voters

Trump was in charge in 2020 when all the foreign interference he alleges happened

National Intelligence Council 2021 report directly contradicts Trump's lies about alleged Chinese interference: “We assess that China did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US presidential election"

Likely a wildly inflated number, given that none of these states handed over their voter rolls & DHS provided no evidence to support such claims

A federal judge in Atlanta has quashed a DOJ subpoena seeking the names and personal info of Fulton County's 2020 election workers. “Georgia is just a microcosm of what they're planning to do to interfere in the midterms,” says @ariberman.bsky.social, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones.

SCOTUS destroying Voting Rights Act Trump openly planning to interfere in midterms DOJ threatening to prosecute election officials I discussed how all these threats to democracy fit together on @nprfreshair.bsky.social today. Please listen www.npr.org/2026/07/08/n...

"Every major study has shown that mail-in voting is safe and secure, but the fact that four justices signed on to Trump’s crusade to get rid of mail-in ballots is highly disturbing and could embolden the president to attempt to take even more drastic steps to make it harder to vote"

Good news that SCOTUS preserved mail ballot grace periods but very disturbing that 4 justices led by Alito amplified Trump's conspiracies about mail voting, including debunked claims of "voter fraud" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Breaking: SCOTUS in 5-4 ruling by Barrett upholds Mississippi law allowing ballots to be counted if postmarked by Election Day but received after. Major disaster averted. A ruling the other way would've disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters in 2026 www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Good day to rewatch this

Politicians who brazenly push to disenfranchise Black voters need to pay a political price everywhere they try it

My Mayor is Muslim My Bagel is Jewish My Christian Dior NY State Dems can gerrymander 4

Dems could draw more than 20 new blue districts by 2028, reversing GOP’s redistricting advantage They need to maximize their power everywhere they have it to counteract Trump & SCOTUS destroying VRA I break it down here, citing great research by @stephenwolf.bsky.social @davidnir.com

WTF is this NYT headline? What the Alabama + Callais decisions really signal is that Roberts Court will make up whatever the hell rule it wants to maximally help the GOP & prevent Black voters from having any representation

Last night, the Roberts Court once again handed Republicans another shocking gerrymandering win in Alabama. For the second time in three weeks, they green-lit an Alabama congressional map that a lower court has repeatedly found intentionally discrim inates against Black voters.

Roberts Court now engaged in blatant electoral warfare, doing everything it can to give Republicans as many seats as possible in midterms & completely erase Reconstruction amendments. If Dems don’t reform court when back in power there will be no democracy left to protect