Mitch McConnell's Last Stand

The Senate Minority Leader is running out of bluffs over the filibuster, and the Democrats must now move in for the kill.

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by Ben Cohen

The Democrats’ voting rights bill, HR 1, is perhaps the most important piece of legislation in modern American history.

If passed, it will create a national system for automatic voter registration, ensure nonpartisan redistricting commissions to put an end to partisan gerrymandering, and place strict transpar…